Spring Forward

April 6, 2016April 6, 2016 / Laura Haugen

This past winter in Washington, DC was a season of closures. Schools, businesses, government offices, and public transportation all shut down for several days amid a series of snowstorms. Even after the last pile of snow disappeared, the area’s ageing metro transit system has had to undergo repeated closures for trackwork repairs and assessments.

For me the season was a blessed time for going nowhere. Snowed in and stranded, I took to my own repairs and assessments. I wrote, I waited, I wrote more. Continue reading →

Two Fall Updates

November 6, 2015November 6, 2015 / Laura Haugen

We started with the little things: scraps of junk, things of no import or stuff we could do without. But soon we had to burn the things we needed, the things we loved. By the end, we let go of just about everything around us we held dear. We tossed it into the flames and watched it smolder.

So begins my story on the Siege of Sarajevo, out in the fall issue of Carve Magazine here, along with the award-winning stories from the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. Continue reading →

The Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

September 21, 2015September 24, 2015 / Laura Haugen

Photo by Carve Magazine

My short story, “All That We Burned, All That We Loved,” about the 1992-1996 siege of Sarajevo, will appear in Carve’s upcoming fall issue among the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest 2015 winners. I am so thrilled to see my first published work of fiction and to be selected as editor’s choice for the competition!