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Evan Williams
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Writer, retired teacher, sometime sage. 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship. Stories in Kenyon, Witness, Zyz, AQR. 3 collections from small presses. “The Divide” forthcoming from Cornerstone Press, 2026. MFA from Montana, long time ago. evanmorganwilliams.com
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My students and I had an acronym for this. THINK. I forget what all the letters stood for. So much for that mnemonic! Didn’t work with that one kid who was cyberbullying either.
Because trending toward the middle (the right, actually) has worked so well for them!
Who wants to read my 11,390 word story?
This talk of writing surfaces is giving big feelings. I probably assign too much importance to it, but I cherish my vintage mahogany govt surplus table. I can write anywhere, but still…
“All that time thinking about kissing, so little actual kissing…” 🥲
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Your work will be in good hands here:
A few more photos from my time here at Dorland Center for the Arts. Looking for a residency? Don’t sleep on this one!
My short story, “Baseball Game,” took third place in Oxford Magazine’s Golden Ox contest. 🐂

1960s Dodgers baseball. WW2 Japanese Internment. A father and daughter. It’s all in there. Check it out:
Baseball Game by Evan Morgan Williams – OXFORD MAGAZINE
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My long story, “Kind Girl, Teacher, Sister, Whale” is up today at Pangyrus Literary. Got thirty minutes to spare? It was a sublime experience to inhabit this story during its composition, and maybe it will be so for you during its reading.
Kind Girl, Teacher, Sister, Whale | Pangyrus
“Let’s read this,” said Kind Girl. She sat beside Teacher at his mahogany table and plunked down the Modern Library edition of Moby Dick. The table was scra ...
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My latest pub this year, a story in So It Goes, the annual literary magazine of the Kurt Vonnegut Library. The theme was Labor.
Big-ass Doug fir trees. 6’2” offspring included for reference.
Thank you, Variant Lit, for taking my story!
“I couldn’t even find the word that was my sister’s name. I wanted to run out that door into the night and keep on running. The cold and wind would hurt more than anything, but that’s what I deserved.”
Haunting tale from @pahoehoe.bsky.social :
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Soft and Warm Against Me
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First publication of 2025 is a reprint, but still special. Honored to be included in Pinyon’s 30th anniversary issue for a story they first printed 20 years ago! Beautiful full color artwork throughout.

And a sticker!
My favorite cinema dog of all time is known as just plain “Dog.”
Hey! Found one of my books facing outwards in a small indie bookstore! #shelfie
So this photographer, K.B. Dixon, read about my Oregon Literary Fellowship and asked me to sit for a portrait for his series on the Oregon Arts Watch website. The result: