Porter Huddleston

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Porter Huddleston is the Pushcart Prize-nominated winner of The VanderMey Nonfiction Prize and finalist in The 2020 Orison Anthology Award in Nonfiction, which recognizes the best spiritual writing in the country. He was also a finalist in The New Millennium Award for Nonfiction, The OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction, and The Oregon Christian Writers' 2021 Cascade Writing Awards (for middle grade fiction and short/flash fiction). He has been honored by Writers of the Future and Writer's Digest for his short fiction, flash fiction and personal essays, and recognized for his debut coming-of-age literary fantasy novel hailed as "reminiscent of Hitchcock." Readers can find his nonfiction work in Ruminate Magazine, the Winston-Salem Writers' group Flying South 2020 anthology, and Hippocampus Magazine, where an abridged version of "What Strange Light the Setting Sun" first appeared.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2020*

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