John’s work has appeared in over a hundred publications, including
The Washington Post
,
The Sun
, and
Open City
, and he is a contributing editor to the
Virginia Quarterly Review
. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award and the recipient of fellowships from Paramount Pictures (Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project), the University of Iowa (James Michener Award), George Washington University (Jenny McKean Moore Fellowship), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship).
Like Jack Sheahan, John is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Also like Jack Sheahan, John was once a media escort in Iowa City. Unlike Jack Sheahan, he has never published a story in
The New Yorker
or
Best American Short Stories
, and he was not a Teaching-Writing Fellow while at Iowa. A native of Chicago’s southwest side, John now lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with his wife, Amy, their three dogs, and at least seven cats. He is at work on a new novel.
His middle name is not Hercules.
Copyright © 2010 by John McNally. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McNally, John, 1965-
After the workshop : a novel / by John McNally.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-582-43678-4
1. Authors—Fiction. 2. Publishers and publishing—Fiction. 3. Iowa City (Iowa)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3563.C38813A69 2010
813’.54—dc22
2009038163
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