Samuel Ace Creative Writing Award Submission

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Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Samuel Ace Creative Writing Submission, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
0.01 Linear Feet
Creator:
Ace, Samuel
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Samuel Ace Creative Writing Submission, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

This bound volume contains the submission "Tales of a Lost Boyhood" for the Jerome Lowell Dejur Prize in Creative Writing. It is dated March, 1986 and consists of a (titular) novella, two short stories, and three narrative poems. The volume is anonymous, but is identifiably written by the transgender poet Samuel Ace (then known as Linda Smukler), as he used material from this submission in his later published writings. The writings deal with Ace's childhood gender dysphoria.

Biographical / historical:

Formerly known as Smukler, Linda

Acquisition information:
htapkoob@gmail.com

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Gays' writings