Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children explores the vast worlds of ecological and familial migrations in the microcosm of a forty-acre high mountain meadow and its surrounding lands .  The announcement by her eighty-five-year-old mother of her move to Colorado to live out her last years sparks Winograd into a journey. She begins to understand what it means to be a steward of a land and its inhabitants she knows little about. She also becomes a steward of a grieving mother sliding irrevocably into the blindness she fears and the dying for which she longs.

This collection of award-winning essays explores as metaphor expanded gold mines, drought-induced wildfires, sudden aspen decline, solitary hawks and summer-pastured longhorns, coyote and elusive cougar, and fairy trumpets.

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2020 Independent Publishers Bronze Medal Book Award.

Slow Arrow received the Bronze Medal Book Award for Essay in 2020 from the Independent Publishers (IPPY). The Gold Medal went to one of my favorite essayist, Lia Purpura.

Established in 1996, IPPY “celebrates the incredible talent in the independent publishing world. Our program is open to independent authors and publishers from around the globe, honoring books created for an English-speaking audience.”

Foreword Indies Book of the Year Awards Finalist

Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children is a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist for 2020.

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.

Finalist for the Colorado Author League 2021 Writing Awards

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.

The Humble Essayist on Slow Arrow Unearthing the Frail Children

We are celebrating a new book of braided, lyrical essays. It is written by poet and essayist, Kathryn Winograd. The book was published this week by Saddle Road Press. Slow Arrow: Unearthing the Frail Children is a book about change and loss. It weaves together 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.

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