Fiction
Barbara Drake is an award-winning fiction writer whose stories and poems has appeared in New Delta Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Portland Review and Purchase Poetry Review. She is a recipient of a Florida State Individual Artist Grant in Fiction and was a finalist in novella contests sponsored by Quarter After Eight and Low-Fidelity Press.
Click here to read Barbara’s account of her childhood experiences as a writer, her ‘retirement’ from writing at age 12 and her decision to take it up again in her 20s.
Follow the links below to read two of her recent short stories and a work of creative nonfiction.
Short Stories
Town & Hillock
A cautionary tale about extreme home makeovers and the dangers of getting what you want (New Delta Review, Summer 2005)Short Stories
How to Marry a Southern Man
A roller-coaster of a narrative told by a NYC phone psychic turned Marion County housewife (not). (Red Rock Review)Creative Nonfiction
