Such an honor to have my novel, Apple Doll, named one of eighteen Finalists for the 2023 Eludia Award, a first-book award sponsored by Hidden River Arts Press. Many congrats to the Eludia winner, Elisabeth Bell Carroll for her novel, Agnés and Oscara.
https://hiddenriverarts.wordpress.com/
I love the slightly snarky yet affectionate approach of the journal, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. Click here to read my story, “Nona’s Gift.”
Wow! Women on Writing is a great place to read the work of women who love to write while staying busy with their everyday lives. Below is a link to my essay, “Marmalade,” which I wrote in those hectic days when I was both mothering young children and caring for an aging and needy parent. Wow! was kind enough to post a brief interview with me as well.
https://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/downloads/printable/80-FE-Q12017-Martha-Mattingly-Payne.html
https://muffin.wow-womenonwriting.com/2018/03/interview-with-martha-mattingly-payne.html
My short story, “Olfactory,” appears in Volume 2 of Scratch, a print anthology of prize-winning stories from 2011–
Baseball fans and go-getter parents of school-aged children alike will enjoy my humorous take on the world of youth league baseball, Put Him in Coach! A Mother’s All-Star Memoir. Very proud of this book, which won a 2008 Mom’s Choice Silver Award–
STAY TUNED … Footnote, A Literary Journal of History, has accepted my short story, “Our Father’s Shoes,” for publication in 2025. The story is set in Atlanta and loosely based on my father’s experience of losing his mother to the 1918 Flu Pandemic.
