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Rosanna Staffa

@RosannaStaffa

Author of THE WAR ENDS AT FOUR (Regal House Publishing, May 2023). Winner of the People of The Year Book Award and the Regal Summit Book Award 2024.

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“When I’m not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It’s a natural resistance, and it ensures your integrity.” ― María Irene Fornés

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I am honored and deeply grateful that my novel, “The War Ends at Four,” has been selected as the General Fiction winner of the 2024 Person of the Year Book Awards.

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Congratulations, Rosanna Staffa! We are delighted to see that The War Ends at Four is a finalist in the American 2024 Fiction Awards in the General Fiction category! americanbookfest.com/2024afafullres…

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RESULTS ANNOUNCED! 2022 AMERICAN FICTION AWARDS “Congratulations to all of the Winners & Finalists!" —Jeffrey Keen, President & CEO, American Book Fest 2022 Press Release: americanbookfest.com/americanfictio… 2022 Full Results: americanbookfest.com/americanfictio…

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Hey, #fiction #writers! @RegalHouse1, which published my recent novel NECESSARY DEEDS to fine acclaim, has announced this contest complete w/ a $1,000 prize. regalhousepublishing.com/the-petrichor-… Check it out. & good luck! #WritingCommunity #Reading #books #booktwt #writinglife #booklover


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Check out @StoryBeatPod featuring Rosanna Staffa, author of The War Ends at Four! storybeat.net/rosanna-staffa…

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"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now." Samuel Beckett, on the changing role of art in modern society.

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Hello Chicago readers/friends/comrades! Miranda July: A Woman's Quest for Freedom, a conversation for the Chicago Humanities Festival on May 18, will be moderated by me! Tickets are on sale now! chicagohumanities.org/events/attend/…


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i read this poem today at an awp event with Tina Chang, Kimiko Hahn, & Marilyn Chin. many thanks to Marilyn, who gave such helpful feedback on this poem back in 2014 during my first @kundimanforever retreat. can’t believe it’s been 10 years!

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Murmuration of starlings in Italy.. 😊



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This essay, upper moose lake, 1990, about time and To the lighthouse is really excellent. “This is what the book does like few others. It regains the weight of what’s vanished. How else to say it? Mine was the only wasted youth I’ll ever have to waste” pw.org/content/am_i_a…


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It's been a fabulous year in great company.


Thrilled to be included in the CLMP authors with so many wonderful friends.

Looking for your next favorite book? Discover 145 novels, 60 short story collections, 11 fiction anthologies, 9 novellas, and more fiction published by indie presses this year. clmp.org/news/fiction-o…

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"The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight." -- WAYS OF SEEING, #JohnBerger, born OTD.

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An October treat: Listen to the only recording of Shirley Jackson’s voice—as she reads two of her best stories aloud. lithub.com/listen-to-the-…


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