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'''Peter Selgin''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|ɛ|l|dʒ|ɪ|n}}; born 1957) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, editor, and illustrator. Selgin is Associate Professor of English at [[Georgia College & State University]] in Milledgeville, Georgia.
'''Peter Selgin''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|ɛ|l|dʒ|ɪ|n}}; born 1957) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, editor, and illustrator. Selgin is Associate Professor of English at [[Georgia College & State University]] in Milledgeville, Georgia.


==Biography==
==Biography==
The son of Italian immigrants,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pifmagazine.com/2007/01/peter-selgin/|title='Peter Selgin' interviewed by Derek Alger|website=Pif Magazine|accessdate=16 October 2017}}</ref> Peter Selgin was born in [[Bethesda, Maryland]], grew up in [[Bethel, Connecticut]], and attended [[Bethel High School (Connecticut)|Bethel High School]]. Following high school, he attended [[Pratt Institute]] in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City|New York]], where he studied film, theater and visual art. He later attended [[Bard College]], and earned his [[Bachelor of Arts]] in English from [[Western Connecticut State University]]. In addition to writing plays and stories, he worked as a visual artist—including as a [[caricature|caricaturist]], [[illustrator]], and [[painting|painter]]. Nerve damage to his hand from a dog attack in 1981 temporarily sidelined his career. Selgin's injury and its aftermath are the subject of [[The Best American Essays]] "Confessions of a Left-Handed Man."
The son of Italian immigrants,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pifmagazine.com/2007/01/peter-selgin/|title='Peter Selgin' interviewed by Derek Alger|website=Pif Magazine|accessdate=16 October 2017}}</ref> Peter Selgin was born in [[Bethesda, Maryland]], grew up in [[Bethel, Connecticut]], and attended [[Bethel High School (Connecticut)|Bethel High School]]. Following high school, he attended [[Pratt Institute]] in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City|New York]], where he studied film, theater and visual art. He later attended [[Bard College]], and earned his [[Bachelor of Arts]] in English from [[Western Connecticut State University]]. In addition to writing plays and stories, he worked as a visual artist—including as a [[caricature|caricaturist]], [[illustrator]], and [[painting|painter]]. Nerve damage to his hand from a dog attack in 1981 temporarily sidelined his career. Selgin's injury and its aftermath are the subject of [[The Best American Essays]] "Confessions of a Left-Handed Man".


Selgin earned his [[Master of Fine Arts]] degree from the [[The New School|New School University]] in [[New York City]] in 2005. Currently, he is an Associate Professor<ref>http://www.gcsu.edu/artsandsciences/english/facultystaff</ref> in the MFA program at [[Georgia College & State University]] in [[Milledgeville, Georgia]]. He previously taught creative writing at [[Antioch College]] in Los Angeles, [[Montclair State University]] in New Jersey, and [[New York University]], among other universities and colleges. He has also taught creative writing at various community organizations, including the [[Gotham Writers' Workshop]], [[The Center for Fiction]] (formerly, the Mercantile Library for Fiction), and the Bronx Writers' Center, among others. For several summers, he has organized and led a week-long creative writing workshop in [[Vitorchiano]], [[Italy]].
Selgin earned his [[Master of Fine Arts]] degree from the [[The New School|New School University]] in [[New York City]] in 2005. {{asof|2021}}, he is an Associate Professor<ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty & Staff |department=Department of English |url=https://www.gcsu.edu/artsandsciences/english/faculty-staff-department-of-english. |publisher=[[ Georgia College & State University]] |access-date=25 August 2021}}</ref> in the MFA program at [[Georgia College & State University]] in [[Milledgeville, Georgia]]. He previously taught creative writing at [[Antioch College]] in Los Angeles, [[Montclair State University]] in New Jersey, and [[New York University]], among other universities and colleges. He has also taught creative writing at various community organizations, including the [[Gotham Writers' Workshop]], [[The Center for Fiction]] (formerly, the Mercantile Library for Fiction), and the Bronx Writers' Center, among others. For several summers, he has organized and led a week-long creative writing workshop in [[Vitorchiano]], [[Italy]].


Selgin was the Viebranz Distinguished Writer-in-Residence<ref name="stlawu.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.stlawu.edu/academics/programs/english/directory/1646 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2010-10-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727100323/http://www.stlawu.edu/academics/programs/english/directory/1646 |archivedate=2011-07-27 }} </ref> at [[St. Lawrence University]] in [[Canton (town), New York|Canton, New York]].
Selgin was the Viebranz Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at [[St. Lawrence University]] in [[Canton (town), New York|Canton, New York]].<ref name="stlawu.edu">{{cite web |url=http://www.stlawu.edu/academics/programs/english/directory/1646 |title=Faculty & Staff Directory |publisher=[[St. Lawrence University]] |accessdate=2010-10-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727100323/http://www.stlawu.edu/academics/programs/english/directory/1646 |archivedate=2011-07-27 }}</ref>{{failed verification|reason=person not mentioned on this page|date=January 2022}}


Selgin is also the creative non-fiction editor of Arts & Letters, a national literary journal published by the MFA Creative Writing program at [[Georgia College & State University]].
Selgin is also the creative non-fiction editor of ''Arts & Letters'', a national literary journal published by the MFA Creative Writing program at [[Georgia College & State University]].


His twin brother, [[George Selgin]] is Director of the [[Cato Institute]]'s Center for Monetary & Financial Alternatives. His father, Paul Selgin, was an [[invention|inventor]] whose numerous [[patent]]s include many for optical measuring devices for use in manufacturing. His half-sister, [[Clare Selgin Wolfowitz]], is an editor and expert in Indonesian anthropology. His other half-sister, Ann Selgin Levy, is a fabric artist and culinary author.
His twin brother, [[George Selgin]] is Director of the [[Cato Institute]]'s Center for Monetary & Financial Alternatives. His half-sister, [[Clare Selgin Wolfowitz]], is an editor and expert in Indonesian anthropology.


==Works==
==Works==
'''Fiction'''
'''Fiction'''


Selgin's debut [[short story]] collection, ''Drowning Lessons'', won the 2007 [[Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction]] and was published in 2008 by the [[University of Georgia Press]]. (4) His first novel, ''Life Goes to the Movies'' was a finalist for both the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for the Novel and was published in 2009 by Dzanc Books. His second novel, "The Water Master," won the 2011 [[William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition|William Faulkner-William Wisdom]] prize for best novel, selected by Random House Editor Will Murphy. His third novel, ''Duplicity'', was a finalist for the 2020 [[Elixir Press]]Book Prize, the 2020 Steel Toe Boots Book Prize, and the 2019 CRAFT First Chapter Contest. It was published in December 2020 by Serving House Books.
Selgin's debut [[short story]] collection, ''Drowning Lessons'' (2008), won the 2007 [[Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction]]. His first novel, ''Life Goes to the Movies'' (2009) was a finalist for both the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for the Novel. His second novel, "The Water Master", won the 2011 [[William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition|William Faulkner-William Wisdom]] prize for best novel. His third novel, ''Duplicity'' (2020), was a finalist for the 2020 [[Elixir Press]]Book Prize, the 2020 Steel Toe Boots Book Prize, and the 2019 CRAFT First Chapter Contest.


'''Non-fiction'''
'''Non-fiction'''


Selgin is also the author of two [[non-fiction]] books on the craft of [[fiction]] writing, ''By Cunning & Craft'', and ''179 Ways to Save a Novel'', both published by [[Writer’s Digest|Writer's Digest Books]]. His first book of essays, ''Confessions of a Left-Handed Man,'' was published by the [[University of Iowa Press]] / Sightline Books in October 2011. His memoir, "The Inventors," was published by Hawthorne Books in April, 2016 with an Introduction by [[Lidia Yuknavitch]]. "The Inventors" is also the 2017 winner of the [[Housatonic Book Award]] for non-fiction.<ref>https://housatonicbookawards.wordpress.com</ref> which is organized by The MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at [[Western Connecticut State University]] and its alumni organization, the MFA Alumni Writers Collaborative. His book on the craft of narrative fiction and non-fiction, "Your First Page: First Pages and What They Tell Us About the Pages That Follow Them," was published in December, 2017 by Serving House Books and reissued in a revised academic edition by Broadview Books in 2019.
Selgin is also the author of two [[non-fiction]] books on the craft of [[fiction]] writing, ''By Cunning & Craft'', and ''179 Ways to Save a Novel''. His first book of essays, ''Confessions of a Left-Handed Man,'' was published by the [[University of Iowa Press]] / Sightline Books in October 2011. His memoir, "The Inventors", was published by Hawthorne Books in 2016. It won the 2017 Housatonic Book Award for non-fiction. His book on the craft of narrative fiction and non-fiction, "Your First Page: First Pages and What They Tell Us About the Pages That Follow Them," was published in 2017 by Serving House Books.


'''Plays'''
'''Plays'''


As a [[playwright]], Selgin has been a three-time finalist for the [[Eugene O'Neill Theater Center|Eugene O’Neill Center]] National Playwrights Conference Award. His stage drama, ''A God in the House,'' based on [[Jack Kevorkian|Dr. Jack Kevorkian]] and his “suicide machine,” was presented there in 1991, and subsequently optioned for [[Off Broadway|off-Broadway]]. ''A God in the House'' also won the [[Mill Mountain Theatre]] New Plays Competition (1990). ''Night Blooming Serious,'' another full-length drama, won the Charlotte Repertory New Plays Festival Competition (1993). (5)
As a [[playwright]], Selgin has been a three-time finalist for the [[Eugene O'Neill Theater Center|Eugene O'Neill Center]] National Playwrights Conference Award. His stage drama, ''A God in the House,'' based on [[Jack Kevorkian|Dr. Jack Kevorkian]] and his "suicide machine", was presented there in 1991, and subsequently optioned for [[Off Broadway|off-Broadway]]. ''A God in the House'' also won the [[Mill Mountain Theatre]] New Plays Competition (1990). ''Night Blooming Serious,'' another full-length drama, won the Charlotte Repertory New Plays Festival Competition (1993).


'''Visual art'''
'''Visual art'''


Selgin's illustrations and paintings have been featured in [[The New Yorker]], [[Gourmet (magazine)|Gourmet]], [[Outside (magazine)|Outside]], [[Fine Gardening (magazine)|Fine Gardening]], [[San Francisco (magazine)|San Francisco]], [[Boston magazine|Boston]], [[Forbes]], ''U.S. Art'', ''American Illustration'', [[Time Out (company)|Time-Out]] New York, the [[Chicago Tribune]], and [[The Wall Street Journal]], as well as [[National Public Radio|NPR]]'s [[Weekend Edition]], [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]'s [[Good Day New York]], and [[CNBC]]'s ''Great Stuff''. As a commercial artist, he [[storyboard]]ed several [[film|motion picture]] scenes, including the gargoyle [[special effect]]s sequences in [[Tales from the Darkside]]. For eight years, beginning in 2005, he served as art director of Alimentum: The Literature of Food. He is currently art director of Arts & Letters, a national literary journal operating out of the MFA program at [[Georgia College]] in Milledgeville, Georgia. Selgin is also a book cover designer with [[Bellevue Literary Press]], [[Black Lawrence Press]], [[Del Sol Press]] and [[Trinity University (Texas)|Trinity University]] among his clients.
Selgin's illustrations and paintings have been featured in [[The New Yorker]], [[Gourmet (magazine)|Gourmet]], [[Outside (magazine)|Outside]], [[Fine Gardening (magazine)|Fine Gardening]], [[San Francisco (magazine)|San Francisco]], [[Boston magazine|Boston]], [[Forbes]], ''U.S. Art'', ''American Illustration'', [[Time Out (company)|Time-Out]] New York, the [[Chicago Tribune]], and [[The Wall Street Journal]], as well as [[National Public Radio|NPR]]'s [[Weekend Edition]], [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]'s [[Good Day New York]], and [[CNBC]]'s ''Great Stuff''.{{cn|date=January 2022}} As a commercial artist, he [[storyboard]]ed several [[film|motion picture]] scenes, including the gargoyle [[special effect]]s sequences in [[Tales from the Darkside]].{{cn|date=January 2022}} For eight years, beginning in 2005, he served as art director of ''Alimentum: The Literature of Food''.{{cn|date=January 2022}} He is currently art director of Arts & Letters, a national literary journal operating from the MFA program at [[Georgia College]] in Milledgeville, Georgia.{{cn|date=January 2022}} Selgin is also a book cover designer. {{cn|date=January 2022}}


'''Children's books'''
'''Children's books'''


Selgin has also written and illustrated several picture books for children, including, ''S.S. Gigantic Across the Atlantic'' (2)
Selgin has also written and illustrated several picture books for children, including, ''S.S. Gigantic Across the Atlantic''.


==Awards==
==Awards==
* “Duplicity,” Semi-Finalist 2020 [[Elixir Press]] Book Prize
* "Duplicity," Semi-Finalist 2020 [[Elixir Press]] Book Prize
* “Duplicity,” Finalist 2020 Steel Toe Boots Book Prize
* "Duplicity," Finalist 2020 Steel Toe Boots Book Prize
* “Duplicity,” Finalist 2019 Craft First Chapter Contest
* "Duplicity," Finalist 2019 Craft First Chapter Contest
* “The Inventors,” Winner, 2017 Housatonic Book Award for Nonfiction
* "The Inventors," Winner, 2017 Housatonic Book Award for Nonfiction
* “The Opening Credits to Rebel Without a Cause,” Best American Notable Essay 2018
* "The Opening Credits to Rebel Without a Cause," Best American Notable Essay 2018
* “Noise,” Best American Notable Essay, 2017
* "Noise," Best American Notable Essay, 2017
* “The Strange Case of Arthur Silz,” Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2017
* "The Strange Case of Arthur Silz," Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2017
* "The Water Master," Semi-Finalist: Big Moose Prize, Black Lawrence Press, May 2016
* "The Water Master," Semi-Finalist: Big Moose Prize, Black Lawrence Press, May 2016
* "Hattertown," Semi-Finalist: Big Moose Prize, Black Lawrence Press, April 2015
* "Hattertown," Semi-Finalist: Big Moose Prize, Black Lawrence Press, April 2015
* "The Inventors, a Memoir," First Finalist / Second Place, AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction, June 2014
* "The Inventors, a Memoir," First Finalist / Second Place, AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction, June 2014
* “My New York: A Romance in Eight Parts,” Best American Travel Writing 2014, Selected by Guest Editor [[Paul Theroux]], January 2014
* "My New York: A Romance in Eight Parts," Best American Travel Writing 2014, Selected by Guest Editor [[Paul Theroux]], January 2014
* “My New York: A Romance in Eight Parts,” Best American Essays 2014, (John Jeremiah Sullivan: Series Editor), Best Notable Essay, 2014
* "My New York: A Romance in Eight Parts," Best American Essays 2014, (John Jeremiah Sullivan: Series Editor), Best Notable Essay, 2014
* “The Kuhreihen Melody,” Best American Essay 2013 ([[Cheryl Strayed]]: Guest Editor), Best Notable Essay, 2013
* "The Kuhreihen Melody," Best American Essay 2013 ([[Cheryl Strayed]]: Guest Editor), Best Notable Essay, 2013
* “The Kuhreihen Melody,” Pushcart Nomination (by Pushcart Distinguished Editorial Board member Wally Lamb), 2013
* "The Kuhreihen Melody," Pushcart Nomination (by Pushcart Distinguished Editorial Board member Wally Lamb), 2013
* "Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist's Memoir," Short-Listed, William Saroyan Prize for International Writing, 2012
* "Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist's Memoir," Short-Listed, William Saroyan Prize for International Writing, 2012
* "The Water Master," Finalist, Dana Award for Novel, 2012
* "The Water Master," Finalist, Dana Award for Novel, 2012
* “The Kuhreihen Melody”, Winner, [[The Dana Award]] in the Essay category, 2012
* "The Kuhreihen Melody", Winner, [[The Dana Award]] in the Essay category, 2012
* “The Kuhreihen Melody”, Winner, Essay category, [[The Missouri Review]] Editor's Prize, 2012
* "The Kuhreihen Melody", Winner, Essay category, [[The Missouri Review]] Editor's Prize, 2012
* "The Water Master," [[William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition|William Faulkner-William Wisdom]] prize for best Novel, 2012
* "The Water Master," [[William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition|William Faulkner-William Wisdom]] prize for best Novel, 2012
* “Alone: Two Types of Solitude”, [[The Best American Series|Best American Notable Essay]], 2011
* "Alone: Two Types of Solitude", [[The Best American Series|Best American Notable Essay]], 2011
* “Titanic Obsession”, Second Prize, [[The Missouri Review]] Editor's Prize, 2011
* "Titanic Obsession", Second Prize, [[The Missouri Review]] Editor's Prize, 2011
* Finalist, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year, ''Life Goes to the Movies'', 2010
* Finalist, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year, ''Life Goes to the Movies'', 2010
* “Dead to Rights: Confessions of a Caricaturist”, [[The Best American Series|Best American Notable Essay]], 2009
* "Dead to Rights: Confessions of a Caricaturist", [[The Best American Series|Best American Notable Essay]], 2009
* Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency Fellowship, 2009, 2008
* Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency Fellowship, 2009, 2008
* “A Pre-Victorian Bathtub”, [[The Best American Series|Best American Notable Essay]], 2008
* "A Pre-Victorian Bathtub", [[The Best American Series|Best American Notable Essay]], 2008
* ''Restaurant'', [[The Best American Series|Best American Notable Essay]], 2007
* ''Restaurant'', [[The Best American Series|Best American Notable Essay]], 2007
* ''Drowning Lessons,''[[Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction]], 2007
* ''Drowning Lessons,''[[Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction]], 2007
* ''A God in the House,'' Winner, Stage 3 Theatre New Play Festival, 2007
* ''A God in the House,'' Winner, Stage 3 Theatre New Play Festival, 2007
* Bronx Arts Council Fellowship, 2007
* Bronx Arts Council Fellowship, 2007
* “Confessions of a Left-Handed Man,” Best American Essays 2006, Selected by Guest Editor [[Lauren Slater]], 2006
* "Confessions of a Left-Handed Man," Best American Essays 2006, Selected by Guest Editor [[Lauren Slater]], 2006
* Second Place, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for the Novel, ''[[The Best American Series|Best American Essay]]'', 2006
* Second Place, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for the Novel, ''[[The Best American Series|Best American Essay]]'', 2006
* [[Glimmer Train]] Very Short Fiction Award, ''Man in the White Car'', 2001
* [[Glimmer Train]] Very Short Fiction Award, ''Man in the White Car'', 2001
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* ''Your First Page'' Revised Classroom Edition (2019), Broadview Press
* ''Your First Page'' Revised Classroom Edition (2019), Broadview Press
* ''The Kuhreihen Melody: Nostalgic Essays'' (2019), Serving House Books
* ''The Kuhreihen Melody: Nostalgic Essays'' (2019), Serving House Books
* ''Duplicity''(2020), Serving House Books.
* ''Duplicity'' (2020), Serving House Books.


==References==
{{reflist}}


==References==
==External links==
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* [http://www.peterselgin.com/ Official website]
*Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, Gale Cengage Publishing, {{ISBN|1-4144-3956-3}}
* Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, Gale Cengage Publishing, {{ISBN|1-4144-3956-3}}
* {{cite web|url=http://fictionwritersreview.com/interviews/the-truth-about-fiction-an-interview-with-peter-selgin|title=The Truth About Fiction: An Interview with Peter Selgin|website=Fictionwritersreview.com|accessdate=16 October 2017}}
* {{cite web|url=http://fictionwritersreview.com/interviews/the-truth-about-fiction-an-interview-with-peter-selgin|title=The Truth About Fiction: An Interview with Peter Selgin|website=Fictionwritersreview.com|accessdate=16 October 2017}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/drowning_lessons|title=UGA Press View Book|website=Ugapress.org|accessdate=16 October 2017}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/drowning_lessons|title=UGA Press View Book|website=Ugapress.org|accessdate=16 October 2017}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/selgin-peter.html|title=Peter Selgin - Playwright|website=Doollee.com|accessdate=16 October 2017}}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/selgin-peter.html|title=Peter Selgin - Playwright|website=Doollee.com|accessdate=16 October 2017}}

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.peterselgin.com/ Official website]


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Peter A. Selgin

Peter Selgin (/ˈsɛldʒɪn/; born 1957) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, editor, and illustrator. Selgin is Associate Professor of English at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia.

Biography

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The son of Italian immigrants,[1] Peter Selgin was born in Bethesda, Maryland, grew up in Bethel, Connecticut, and attended Bethel High School. Following high school, he attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, where he studied film, theater and visual art. He later attended Bard College, and earned his Bachelor of Arts in English from Western Connecticut State University. In addition to writing plays and stories, he worked as a visual artist—including as a caricaturist, illustrator, and painter. Nerve damage to his hand from a dog attack in 1981 temporarily sidelined his career. Selgin's injury and its aftermath are the subject of The Best American Essays "Confessions of a Left-Handed Man".

Selgin earned his Master of Fine Arts degree from the New School University in New York City in 2005. As of 2021, he is an Associate Professor[2] in the MFA program at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia. He previously taught creative writing at Antioch College in Los Angeles, Montclair State University in New Jersey, and New York University, among other universities and colleges. He has also taught creative writing at various community organizations, including the Gotham Writers' Workshop, The Center for Fiction (formerly, the Mercantile Library for Fiction), and the Bronx Writers' Center, among others. For several summers, he has organized and led a week-long creative writing workshop in Vitorchiano, Italy.

Selgin was the Viebranz Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.[3][failed verification]

Selgin is also the creative non-fiction editor of Arts & Letters, a national literary journal published by the MFA Creative Writing program at Georgia College & State University.

His twin brother, George Selgin is Director of the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary & Financial Alternatives. His half-sister, Clare Selgin Wolfowitz, is an editor and expert in Indonesian anthropology.

Works

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Fiction

Selgin's debut short story collection, Drowning Lessons (2008), won the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His first novel, Life Goes to the Movies (2009) was a finalist for both the James Jones First Novel Fellowship and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for the Novel. His second novel, "The Water Master", won the 2011 William Faulkner-William Wisdom prize for best novel. His third novel, Duplicity (2020), was a finalist for the 2020 Elixir PressBook Prize, the 2020 Steel Toe Boots Book Prize, and the 2019 CRAFT First Chapter Contest.

Non-fiction

Selgin is also the author of two non-fiction books on the craft of fiction writing, By Cunning & Craft, and 179 Ways to Save a Novel. His first book of essays, Confessions of a Left-Handed Man, was published by the University of Iowa Press / Sightline Books in October 2011. His memoir, "The Inventors", was published by Hawthorne Books in 2016. It won the 2017 Housatonic Book Award for non-fiction. His book on the craft of narrative fiction and non-fiction, "Your First Page: First Pages and What They Tell Us About the Pages That Follow Them," was published in 2017 by Serving House Books.

Plays

As a playwright, Selgin has been a three-time finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Center National Playwrights Conference Award. His stage drama, A God in the House, based on Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his "suicide machine", was presented there in 1991, and subsequently optioned for off-Broadway. A God in the House also won the Mill Mountain Theatre New Plays Competition (1990). Night Blooming Serious, another full-length drama, won the Charlotte Repertory New Plays Festival Competition (1993).

Visual art

Selgin's illustrations and paintings have been featured in The New Yorker, Gourmet, Outside, Fine Gardening, San Francisco, Boston, Forbes, U.S. Art, American Illustration, Time-Out New York, the Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as NPR's Weekend Edition, Fox's Good Day New York, and CNBC's Great Stuff.[citation needed] As a commercial artist, he storyboarded several motion picture scenes, including the gargoyle special effects sequences in Tales from the Darkside.[citation needed] For eight years, beginning in 2005, he served as art director of Alimentum: The Literature of Food.[citation needed] He is currently art director of Arts & Letters, a national literary journal operating from the MFA program at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia.[citation needed] Selgin is also a book cover designer. [citation needed]

Children's books

Selgin has also written and illustrated several picture books for children, including, S.S. Gigantic Across the Atlantic.

Awards

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  • "Duplicity," Semi-Finalist 2020 Elixir Press Book Prize
  • "Duplicity," Finalist 2020 Steel Toe Boots Book Prize
  • "Duplicity," Finalist 2019 Craft First Chapter Contest
  • "The Inventors," Winner, 2017 Housatonic Book Award for Nonfiction
  • "The Opening Credits to Rebel Without a Cause," Best American Notable Essay 2018
  • "Noise," Best American Notable Essay, 2017
  • "The Strange Case of Arthur Silz," Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2017
  • "The Water Master," Semi-Finalist: Big Moose Prize, Black Lawrence Press, May 2016
  • "Hattertown," Semi-Finalist: Big Moose Prize, Black Lawrence Press, April 2015
  • "The Inventors, a Memoir," First Finalist / Second Place, AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction, June 2014
  • "My New York: A Romance in Eight Parts," Best American Travel Writing 2014, Selected by Guest Editor Paul Theroux, January 2014
  • "My New York: A Romance in Eight Parts," Best American Essays 2014, (John Jeremiah Sullivan: Series Editor), Best Notable Essay, 2014
  • "The Kuhreihen Melody," Best American Essay 2013 (Cheryl Strayed: Guest Editor), Best Notable Essay, 2013
  • "The Kuhreihen Melody," Pushcart Nomination (by Pushcart Distinguished Editorial Board member Wally Lamb), 2013
  • "Confessions of a Left-Handed Man: An Artist's Memoir," Short-Listed, William Saroyan Prize for International Writing, 2012
  • "The Water Master," Finalist, Dana Award for Novel, 2012
  • "The Kuhreihen Melody", Winner, The Dana Award in the Essay category, 2012
  • "The Kuhreihen Melody", Winner, Essay category, The Missouri Review Editor's Prize, 2012
  • "The Water Master," William Faulkner-William Wisdom prize for best Novel, 2012
  • "Alone: Two Types of Solitude", Best American Notable Essay, 2011
  • "Titanic Obsession", Second Prize, The Missouri Review Editor's Prize, 2011
  • Finalist, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year, Life Goes to the Movies, 2010
  • "Dead to Rights: Confessions of a Caricaturist", Best American Notable Essay, 2009
  • Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency Fellowship, 2009, 2008
  • "A Pre-Victorian Bathtub", Best American Notable Essay, 2008
  • Restaurant, Best American Notable Essay, 2007
  • Drowning Lessons,Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, 2007
  • A God in the House, Winner, Stage 3 Theatre New Play Festival, 2007
  • Bronx Arts Council Fellowship, 2007
  • "Confessions of a Left-Handed Man," Best American Essays 2006, Selected by Guest Editor Lauren Slater, 2006
  • Second Place, Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for the Novel, Best American Essay, 2006
  • Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award, Man in the White Car, 2001
  • Blue Mountain Center, Residency Fellowship, 1999
  • Mill Mountain Theatre New Plays Award, A God in the House, 1992
  • National Playwright's Conference Award, A God in the House, 1991
  • Charlotte Repertory New Plays Award, Night Blooming Serious, 1991

Books

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  • S. S. Gigantic Across the Atlantic (1999), Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-689-82467-X
  • By Cunning & Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for Fiction Writers (2007), Writer's Digest Books, ISBN 1-58297-491-8
  • Drowning Lessons (2008), University of Georgia Press, ISBN 0-8203-3210-0
  • Life Goes to the Movies (2009), Dzanc Books, ISBN 0-9793123-8-8
  • 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers (2010) Writer's Digest Books, ISBN 1-58297-607-4
  • Confessions of a Left-Handed Man (2011), University of Iowa Press / Sightline Books
  • The Inventors (2016), Hawthorne Books and Literary Arts
  • Your First Page: First Pages and What They Tell Us About the Pages that Follow Them (2018), Serving House Books
  • Your First Page Revised Classroom Edition (2019), Broadview Press
  • The Kuhreihen Melody: Nostalgic Essays (2019), Serving House Books
  • Duplicity (2020), Serving House Books.

References

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  1. ^ "'Peter Selgin' interviewed by Derek Alger". Pif Magazine. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  2. ^ "Faculty & Staff". Department of English. Georgia College & State University. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Faculty & Staff Directory". St. Lawrence University. Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2010-10-09.
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