Amanda Pauley
Amanda Pauley, runner-up in this year's Bevel Summers Contest, is an MFA in Creative Writing student at Hollins University. Her fiction has appeared in the 2011 and 2012 Press 53 Open Awards Anthologies, the 2013 issue of Cargoes, and multiple issues of the Clinch Mountain Review. She was a 2012 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize finalist, a runner up in the 2013 Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short Fiction, and the winner of the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction in 2013. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.
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Hope
Dawn came upon the Eastern Shore of Virginia when the farmers were already working. The tomatoes were staked and tied, heavy with fruit, ready for picking. The corn fields were tall and green, and long irrigators stretched across the square …