Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 1
Winner of the 2013 Stars and Flags Book Award Gold Medal for an Anthology/Collection
Publication: Fall 2012
Pages: 256
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The anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors showcases writing from military veterans and their families from across the nation, including writing about WWI and WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf Conflict, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
The volume also sponsored a veterans’ writing competition, judged by stellar writers Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down), William Trent Pancoast (WILDCAT), and soldier-poet Brian Turner (Here, Bullet and Phantom Noise). The winners and finalists are spotlighted in the front of the book.
The anthology is the first in an annual series published by Southeast Missouri State University Press in Cooperation with the Missouri Humanities Council’s Veterans Projects and the Warriors Arts Alliance. The Missouri Humanities Council plans to expand the partnership to include additional organizations that are both concerned and supportive of American veterans.
For information about how to submit, click here.
Winners of the Warriors Anthology Writing Competition:
Nonfiction Winner: Paul Mims for “Rockhappy 1944-45
Nonfiction Finalists: Jarrod L. Taylor for “Sadr City” and Jimmy Castellanos for “Desert Snow”
Poetry Winner: Gerardo Mena for “Baring the Trees”
Poetry Finalists: Carol Alexander for “Rewind” and Bill Glose for “Desert Moon”
Fiction Winner: Monty Joynes for “First Day at An Khe”
Fiction Finalists: Edie Cottrell Kreisler for “Remembering Cu Chi” and Ryan Smithson for “Tap Shoes”
Contributors
Between Wives by Jay Harden
53 Alpha by Jonah E. Krause
The Soldier’s Two-Step
A Rock Called Afghanistan by Lauren K. Johnson
Ana as’fi
On Leaving for Iraq a Second Time by Christopher P. Collins
Bunker Sonnet by Nicholas Watts-Fernandez
Hyphenated Americans by Jan Morrill
Little World by Chris Whitehead
Ode to the Enemy Sniper by Gerardo Mena
War is Steel by Christopher Lee Miles
In Less Than a Minute by Russell Reece
Distant Seitz
Blind
SPC Browning Speaks by Levi Bollinger
Be Polite But Have a Plan to Kill Everyone You Meet by Jesse Goolsby
In the Military Garden of Remembrance by Walter Baker
No Hero by Colin D. Halloran
what sacrifice has been by Randy Brown
The John Wayne Hills by Steven Croft
All Fun and Games, Until by David Lawrence
Care Package
Something Else You Don’t Need by Liam Corley
Cleaning Up Our Mess (October 2003) by Brian Curran
The Ride Home by GuruSahai Good
For a Future Believed In
The Way We Were: Portrait of a Vietnamese Veteran’s Grandson by Jay Harden
Deep and Free
Baby I’m Already Back
All I Ever Wanted by Aaron Horrell
Transit by James Mathews
War Wounds by Sonja Pasquantonio
Don’t Tell His Mother by Monty Joynes
Army Mom by Sheree Nielsen
Liberation Requiem by Shaun Yankee
The Poet & The Wounded Warrior’s Return by James A. Moad II
Veteran’s Quiescence by Michael Sukach
Lake Serene by Bruce Sydow
Becoming the Devil by Jacob Worthington
The Flies by James Wooden
Army Issue by Leslie Harper Worthington
The Life of a Superhero by Richard Van Beeson
Cloud Fishing
Prisoners of War 1965 by Tim Leach
A Letter Home from Fort Bliss, Texas, 1918 by Philip Renner
What We Leave Behind by Jason Sansburn
In the Salmon’s Eyes
Furlough, May ’99 by William Lusk Coppage
A Red-Haired Rosie by Velda Goodgion Brotherton
Green Card Soldier
incoming by Carl Palmer
Smedley Butler’s Disciple by David S. Pointer
The Cost of Memory by Susan V. Meyers
Search Team
Clearing a Room by Bill Glose
Moment Two by Daniel D. Bradford
Sonnet for Killing by Dario DiBattista
The Cargo by James A. Moad II
tree line by Fred Rosenblum
Sulfur and Moonshine
What’s For Dinner, Doc?
Picking up the Slack by Jason Pourdrier
The Ponytail Pal Christmas by Mitch Duckworth
Their Letters by Kathleen Willard
Just One Smile by Michele A. Boyle
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ISBN: 978-0-9883103-0-8