Electronic-alle: An Alle Alert (newsletter)
How to Pronounce “Alle”
Like the narrow road behind the hotel: alley.
Honors
My debt novel, the Amazon best-selling As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back, is honored thusly:
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Nominated, The 2024 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Book Award;
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First Place, 2023 ThePenCraft Book Award for Fiction – Adventure;
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2022 International Firebird Book Award Winner – 1st Place, Literary
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2022 International Firebird Book Award Winner – 1st Place, Coming of Age
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2022 International Firebird Book Award Winner – 2nd Place, Women’s Issues
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2022 National League of American Pen Women’s Mary Kennedy Eastham Flash Fiction Prize (excerpt) – 1st Place
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2020 Lascaux Prize (excerpt) – First Finalist
Where I Publish
My most recent publication is an excerpt from the novel, published by Another Chicago Magazine: Onions in the Tea Garden.
A short from As Far, Crashing, placed as finalist for The Lascaux Prize 2020, subsequently to be nominated for Best Small Fictions. Other favorite publications include literary magazines such as Dale Peck’s Evergreen Review, New World Writing, Litro, Tupelo Quarterly, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Another Chicago Magazine, Necessary Fiction, Brevity (blog), Blue Lake Review, Literary Orphans, and Literary Mama; as well as journalism in Bust Magazine, The Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, and The Stranger (Contributing Writer).
Additional “wins” include: First Place in The Richard Hugo House New Works competition; a Best of the Net nomination from Word Riot; and finalist or semi-finalist in the contests of: Boulevard, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Memoir Magazine, Hippocampus, and twice for Screencraft’s Cinematic Short Story Contest.
I like to make videos in support of my pubications. Please see Videos.
Where I Work
I was the editor at The Vestal Review, and also senior nonfiction editor for jmww journal. I loved my work both places, but left in order to focus on two new novels: Drug dealers! Zombies! (Must scroll down.)
Why “Parent and Child”
I write about childhood. Everything I did or did not experience as a child manifests in everything that is or is not going on in my life today. It therefore manifests in the lives of my children.
Perhaps because the majority of my writing draws from painful and well-attended to history of dysfunction, I receive a number of questions for which I do not have the formal training to offer clinical answers. I answer purely from personal experience, striving to bring the focus back to writing. The ideas underlying these posts are not mine. One and all, they are the result of the groundbreaking clinical work of Donna Bevan Lee and Pia Melody.
What does the “C.” stand for.
I’ll never tell. (Okay; it’s Cute. Because that’s what’s important.)
“A brilliant debut showing the agony of incest, the miracle of survival, and a young woman’s journey of escape, healing, and return.” —Anne Leigh Parrish, thirteen novels and an Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List
Alle C. Hall 