Chad V. Broughman
Chad V. Broughman was the recipient of the Rusty Scythe Prize Book award in 2016 and in 2017 was awarded the Adobe Cottage Writers Retreat honor in New Mexico. In the spring of 2018, Chad was awarded a chapbook contract for his collection of short stories, “the forsaken,” which was published by Etchings Press and again in spring 2022 for short story collection “slighted." and he was one of three winners in the “First Chapter” contest, hosted by Arch Street Press. As well, Chad’s short story “Check Mate” was published in a collection of stories entitled “On Loss, an anthology.” His fiction can be found in print magazines nationwide––Carrier Pigeon, East Coast Literary Review, River Poets Journal, From Whispers to Roars and Burningword—and in several on-line journals––Faith, Hope & Fiction, Sky Island Journal, Wild Violet, and Darling Axe. He is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee and a Hummingbird Prize winner from Canada’s highly regarded magazine, PULP Literature. Additionally, he has served as a guest judge for the Dorlis Gott Armentrout Award and the Write Michigan Contest via Kent County Library. In August 2022, Chad was short-listed for the First Novel Prize and named a 2023 Screencraft Cinematic Book Competition Finalist. Chad won the 2023 Amity Literary Prize for his historical novel, “The Fall of Bellwether” published in April 2024 and most recently hailed as “first among equals” as the 2024 Hawthorne Prize winner, ranking as a finalist for the 2024 International Book Award and winning the 2024 American Writing Award for historical fiction. Chad holds an MFA from Spalding University and served as co-editor for the fiction/poetry blog, Café Aphra, based in the United Kingdom. He lives in northern Michigan with his wife and two sons, teaching English and Creative Writing.