Kevin Winchester has published fiction and creative non-fiction in a number of journals and publications and can be found throughout the Web and in traditional print format. Some of his publishing highlights include “Waiting on Something to Happen, Winchester’s short story of love, loss, and grief, won the 2013 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Award. His forthcoming novel, Sunflower Dog, is scheduled for release in spring of 2020 by SFK Press. Main Street Press published his short story collection, Everybody’s Gotta Eat, in the summer of 2009. Other short fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast Literary and Arts Journal, Story South, Barrelhouse, Southern Hum, and the anthology Everything But the Baby. His creative non-fiction has appeared in the Novello Press anthology entitled Making Notes: Music in the Carolinas and also in Tin House Literary Magazine, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, and Referential Magazine.
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Sally Hinson could have guessed that his business partner would leave him a heap of trouble along with their real-estate holdings, but not that his partner’s last shady deal would see him competing with a growing group of oddballs, and their unusual dog, for a once-useless piece of land that now holds the key to each of their unique “American Dreams.” Determined scientist, Kat; anxious and unemployed expectant-father, Livingston; a pair of young weed dealers; and aspiring reality-television star Brittany and her doting but far from docile grandmother, all stand between Sally and the deal of a lifetime, but is it the deal of his dreams?