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Joe Wilkins has a big, true, highway-running American voice. When you see a new book of his, you should celebrate. Just buy it, put down the window, and let the music blow back your hair. It's nothing but alive. -Luis Alberto Urrea

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Essay Up at The Briar Cliff Review

Posted on November 28, 2010 by joe.robert.wilkins in News

I’m rather late with this, but my essay “My Mother’s Story, Retold and Annotated,” which won the 2010 Nonfiction Award, is up at the always beautifully-designed Briar Cliff Review.

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Essay in The Briar Cliff Review

Posted on May 6, 2010May 6, 2010 by joe.robert.wilkins in News

My essay “My Mother’s Story: Retold and Annotated” is featured in this year’s edition of The Briar Cliff Review, which has to be one of the most beautifully-designed and -produced literary journals in the country!

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