Bill Pruitt
Assistant Editor at Narrative Magazine- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Narrative Magazine
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United States
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Book and Periodical Publishing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Assistant Editor
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Sep 2014 - Present
As first reader, I review open and contest submissions in fiction and nonfiction to reject or promote. As first reader, I review open and contest submissions in fiction and nonfiction to reject or promote.
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Fiction Writer
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2005 - Present
I have published scores of poems over 40 years in such places as Ploughshares, Poetry Now, Country Journal, and most recently, Otis Nebula and the Steel Toe Review, with two chapbooks from White Pine press and FootHills and the self-published Walking Home from the Eastman House. I have also published 9 short stories in the last four years in Crack of the Spine Literary Journal,, Indiana Literary Voice, Journal, Hypertext, Oyster River Pages, Visitiant Lit, Adelaide Magazine, BlazeVOX and Midway Journal. Show less
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poet
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1972 - Present
have written, given readings and published for 40 years; published in Anderbo.com, Ploughshares, Yankee Magazine, Cottonwood, et. al.; two chapbooks, Ravine Street, White Pine Press, and Bold Cities and Golden Plains, FootHills press; and one self-published full-length book, Walking Home from the Eastman House
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Storyteller
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Jun 1982 - Present
tell folktales and original stories, including history, have recently written and performed completely documented story about Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony (how their lives overlapped as both moved to Rochester, New York) at the Perkins Mansion, the Bittner Street YWCA and Writers and Books (twice) in Rochester; have told stories about Mary Jemison, Daniel Boone and the Founding of the League of the Iroquois, and have performed original and traditional stories for pre-schoolers, city recreation centers, elementary & high schools, libraries, museums,science centers, etc. Show less
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teacher
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Sep 1988 - 2014
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esl teacher
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2007 - 2013
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Education
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University of Rochester
master of science, TESOL -
University of Missouri
B.A., English