Frank, congratulations on your achievement. 1st. Place co-winner in the prestigious Exile/Gloria Vanderbilt Short Fiction Award, 2011 for your story The Poet.
You can read Frank's award winning story in the current issue of EXILE: The Literary Quarterly - Volume 35 No.1 or in the Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology Series Book One available from Exile Editions August 15, 2011.
Photo of Frank and Gloria Vanderbilt at the awards dinner, Turf lounge, Toronto, May 28, 2011.
Photo taken by Michelle Westcott
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When asked what inspires Frank, he responded ...
People who have beaten the odds inspire me. People who do something bigger than themselves inspire me.
People who try, then cry in loss and defeat and stand again, and are able to walk into their futures and give meaning to these losses, inspire me.
People who, after these events, become tougher, wiser, unconquered & move in ways bigger than themselves for the betterment of this world, inspire me.
People like these inspire me.
People, these, who are graced with knowing of pain from some source, who are able to move beyond this pain, and use this pain to heal themselves, and at the same time open the inner doors for the healing of others.
These people inspire me.
People like that.
People who have done "it" -- whatever this "it" is -- whether they do "it" quietly and out of the limelight or seem to bring a star from the sky and radiate something more -- bigger than themselves.
This is what inspires me.
This is what has always inspired me.
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