Allen Woodman

Fiction Writer

Sedona, AZ
Arizona US

Author's Bio

Allen Woodman has published six books of fiction, including Saved by Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald, a collection of humorous short stories for adults, and The Cows Are Going to Paris, a children's picture book with David Kirby (selected for Doubleday and Literary Guild book clubs). He has also published scores of short stories in magazines and anthologies, including Life is Short-Art is Shorter, Flash Fiction, Micro Fiction, Sudden Fiction Continued (Norton), Great Jones Street, New Flash Fiction Review, Mirabella, Washington Post, Story, and Passages North. His stories have been heard on NPR’s Selected Shorts and at Symphony Space (NYC), and an interview with the author appeared on Books & Co. (PBS). Dr. Woodman directed the Northern Arizona University Creative Writing Area/Program and the Arizona-Iowa London Program, and he served as Chair of the NAU English Department. He is Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing at Northern Arizona University, and he is currently writing flash fiction and a tiny novel in Sedona, Arizona.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Life is Short-Art Is Shorter (Hawthorne Books, 2016)
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Micro Fiction (Norton, 1996)
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Sudden Fiction Anthology (W. W. Norton & Company, 1996)
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Flash Fiction (Norton, 1992)
Books:
Saved by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Livingston University Press, 1997)
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All-You-Can-Eat, Alabama (Apalachee Press, 1994)
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The Bear Who Came to Stay (Bradbury Press, 1994)
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Cows Are Going to Paris (Boyds Mills Press, 1991)

More Information

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Last update: Nov 17, 2016