Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children
My creative nonfiction book is combination of landscape- based essays and the mother daughter relationship. My mother and I found a new love and bond when she arrived in Colorado so that I might shepherd her through her last years.
Winner of the Bronze Medal in Essay, Independent Publishers Book Award.
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist.
Colorado Author League Finalist in Essay Collection.
A collection of lyric, braided, environmental, and familial essays published by Saddle Road Press. Order through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s Books and Indie Bound.
Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children explores in the microcosm of a forty-acre high mountain meadow and its surrounding lands vast worlds of ecological and familial migrations. The announcement by her eighty-five-year-old mother that she would be moving to Colorado to live out her last years sparks Winograd into a journey into what it means to be a steward of a land and its inhabitants she knows little about and steward of a grieving mother sliding irrevocably into the blindness she fears and the dying for which she longs.
Available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s Books and Indie Bound. Find all links through Saddle Road Press.
Expanded gold mines, drought-induced wildfires, sudden aspen decline, solitary hawks and summer-pastured longhorns, coyote and elusive cougar, fairy trumpets: read more at Saddle Road Press.
SlowArrow: Unearthing the Frail Children is a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist for 2020.
Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children wins Bronze Medal in Essay for the 2020 Independent Publishers Book Awards.
As part of its mission to discover, review, and share the best books from university and independent publishers, Foreword Magazine, Inc. hosts an annual awards program each year. Finalists represent the best books published in 2020. After more than 2,000 individual titles spread across 55 genres were submitted for consideration, the Finalists were determined by Foreword’s editorial team. Winners will be decided by an expert team of booksellers and librarians—representing Foreword’s trade readership—from across the country.
Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children is a Finalist for the Colorado Author League 2021 Writing Awards. CAL recognizes multiple works published across several different genres in fiction and nonfiction. This year more than 120 members took part in the contest of published works.
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The Humble Essayist on Slow Arrow Unearthing the Frail Children
We are celebrating a new book of braided, lyrical essays written by poet and essayist, Kathryn Winograd, published this week by Saddle Road Press. Called Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children, the book about change and loss weaves many threads: the fragile beauty of the Colorado Rockies, the migration of animals, unearthed fossils, gravitational waves, the arrow of time, dying animals, and a warming planet to name a few. One thread includes her aging mother who suffers from macular degeneration and hopes to die before she goes completely blind. In the essay “Skyglow” Winograd offers her mother a gift: the possibility of a luminosity that outlasts our lives. . . .The Humble Essayist.