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Shanti Weiland’s Sister Nun wins 2015 Negative Capability Press Book Competition

Shanti Weiland’s Sister Nun wins 2015 Negative Capability Press Book Competition

Negative Capability Press is pleased to announce that after careful deliberation, notable poet and judge Amy King of New York, has chosen Shanti Weiland’s Sister Nun as the winner of our 2015 Book Competition. Weiland’s Sister Nun is about a woman who joins a Buddhist convent in response to a broken heart. The manuscript begins…

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An interview with semi-finalist Shanti Weiland

An interview with semi-finalist Shanti Weiland

Shanti Weiland is a poet by nature but sometimes enjoys a visit to the other team's dugout, where she dabbles in prose. She received her BA in English from the University of California, Davis and later moved to the desert, pursuing a Creative Writing MA at Northern Arizona University. She then traveled to the humid and friendly south, where

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