{"id":4238,"date":"2020-02-15T10:58:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T17:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i81.a52.mywebsitetransfer.com\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2020-02-15T10:58:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T17:58:28","slug":"seven-cries-of-delight-by-tom-newton-wins-2019-dactyl-foundation-literary-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dactylfoundation.org\/?p=4238","title":{"rendered":"Seven Cries of Delight by Tom Newton wins 2019 Dactyl Foundation Literary\u00a0Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"Newton\u2019s collection of surreal stories, Seven Cries of Delight<\/em> (Recital Publishing, 170 pages) was nominated by Brent Robison who, in his review<\/a>, writes, \u201cAs legions of MFA students busily workshop their childhood drama into market-friendly \u2018realistic\u2019 fiction, Tom Newton has clearly been following a different muse.\u201d At Dactyl Review<\/em> we value unique and eccentric talent and our readers will find those few authors writing today who aren\u2019t trying to appeal to the most common of those dominating the market. Newton appeals to a special literary taste, to those whose minds tend to wander, who question the act of thinking itself and who often catch themselves in the act, examining the form and structure of the process of meaning-making. In short, Newton writes about thought-art.<\/p>\n

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