David R YaleDavid R. Yale's fiction and poetry have been published in "Midstream," "Response," "Newtown Literary," "Blue Collar Review," "Pangolin Review," "Which Side Are You On? 2023 Labor Day Anthology," and Moonstone Arts Center's "27th Annual Poetry Ink Antology." His novel, "Becoming JiJi," won First Place in the 2018 "Writer's Digest" Self-Published eBook Awards, Contemporary Fiction category, and was a quarter-finalist in the 2019 ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition. "Chemical Explosions," a story excerpted from his novel, "Becoming JiJi," was long-listed for the Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction. "No Shade," a story excerpted from Yale's novel "The Real Paul Makinen," was short-listed for the Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest sponsored by "Pulp Literature Magazine." That novel was also a finalist in the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society's novel-in-progress contest. Yale's novel, "Getting Back Our Stolen Bootstraps," was the Winner Runner-up, Realistic Fiction, 2025 Pencraft Awards for Literary Excellence.With a blue-collar, working class outlook, Yale writes about one of the most overlooked communities in the contemporary fiction scene. You can find out more about Yale at his website, https: //davidryale.com/. Or follow him on Bluesky @DavidRYale. Read More Read Less