david hogan

Category: On Writing

  • My short story is a winner in the SD Public Library Short Story Contest

    My short story, ‘Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White,’ was the 2nd place winner in the 2020 San Diego Public Library Short Story Contest. You can find the details and read the story here. And, as always, my novel is…

  • Why I Write

    I write because I am a prisoner. I write because there exists, beyond the walls of my preconceptions and just outside the barriers of my inventiveness, another story. It’s not wholly personal or cultural or factual. It’s not religious or…

  • Novel Recommendation

    ‘At Swim-Two-Birds’ by Flann O’Brien. Not one of my three sisters is a loud, dirty, boozy girl. That’s probably a good thing for them — as well as me. But if one or two or all of them were, I…