St. Lawrence Book Award

Posted on February 24, 2018
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I am incredibly excited to announce that my book of short stories, Moon Trees and Other Orphans, has won the St. Lawrence Book Award and will be published by Black Lawrence Press. I am really and truly over the moon.

Read more about the award and an except here.

Leigh Camacho Rourks

Leigh Camacho Rourks is a Cuban-American author who lives and works in Central Florida, where she is an Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Beacon College. She is the recipient of the St. Lawrence Book Award, the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and the Robert Watson Literary Review Prize, and her work has been shortlisted for several other awards. Her fiction, poems, and essays have appeared in a number of journals, including Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, RHINO, TriQuarterly, December Magazine, and Greensboro Review.

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Matte Blk
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19 October 2019 at 11:50 pm

I love your pic of
the lil girl smoking…
or dijoo juss photoshop?
Anyway, it rocks!
Bravo! Encore!!
Damena Nachele McCoy
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24 February 2018 at 10:55 pm

That is so awesome, Leigh!! You deserve it for sure. Congratulations! xoxoxo

“Hot damn, this is a powerhouse debut. Leigh Camacho Rourks deserves a hallowed
space on the shelf between Flannery O'Connor and Donald Ray Pollock.”

—Benjamin Percy

Moon Trees and Other Orphans is a gritty collection of short stories set along the Gulf Coast, focusing on themes of desperation, loneliness, and love. Filled with hard-living characters who are deeply lonely, it tracks the ways they fight for survival, often making very bad decisions as they go. Populated by gun toting women, ex-cons, desperate teens, and other outsiders, it is a collection about what life is like in hard places, both beautiful and dangerous.

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