Randall Silvis

I am the author of 23 critically acclaimed novels in various genres, a prize-winning playwright, and a produced screenwriter. Literary awards include:
Pabst Master Artist for Writers at the Atlantic Center for the Arts
Two National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship Awards
Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Grant to Barbados
Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree for “distinguished literary achievement”
Drue Heinz Literature Prize
Four Amazon #1 Bestseller novels
Two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Literature Fellowship Awards
Two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Screenwriting Fellowship Awards
Two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowship Awards
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Distinguished Alumni Award
Clarion University of Pennsylvania Distinguished Alumni Award
The Best American Mysteries 2013, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, for novella The Indian
Best of the Net Anthology 2013, for short story “Young Love”
In A Town Called Mundomuerto named one of ’s Ten Best Books of the Year
Heart So Hungry named a Toronto Globe & Mail Best Book of the Year
On Night’s Shore named to the New York Times Recommended Reading List
James Thurber Writer-in-Residence, The Thurber House/The Ohio State University
Three-time winner, National Playwrights Showcase Award
Two-time winner, Pittsburgh New Works Play Festival
Grand Prize, Screenwriting Showcase Awards, for The Algerian
Two-time Finalist for the Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing from the International Association of Crime Writers
Twice Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Finalist for the Anything But Hollywood Screenwriting Award
Finalist for the New Century Writers Screenplay Award
Finalist for the Beverly Hills Theater Guild/Julie Harris Playwright Award
Ruby Lloyd Apsey Playwriting Award from the University of Alabama at Birmingham