Author Background
Timothy Bascom
I have been writing for publication since I
was in college in the 1980’s, when one of my professors secretly submitted a
classroom project to a magazine and it was accepted. Over the years, I have tried nearly everything
across the spectrum from journalistic writing to literary. I have published features, profiles, reviews,
children’s stories, poetry, short stories, a standing column, and a wide range
of personal essays (narrative-based memoirs, braided biography-and-autobiography,
topical essays on current issues, and reflective or contemplative pieces). I have also authored three books. See below for a list of awards and publications.
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Books
Chameleon Days: An
American Boyhood in
Books/Houghton
Mifflin, 2006. Winner
of the Bakeless Literary Prize.
The Comfort Trap:
Spiritual Dangers of a Convenience Culture (essays).
Squatters’ Rites (novel).
Writing Awards
Awards are listed above and below, in relation
to given publications. They include:
The Bakeless Literary Prize in Nonfiction
/ Breadloaf Writing Conference.
Judge: Edward
Hoagland.
Selection for Best American
Travel Essays 2005.
Guest editor:
The 2004 Florida Review Editor's Prize in Nonfiction.
The 2003 Missouri Review Editor's Prize in Essay.
Semi-Finalist for “Discovery”/the Nation Poetry Contest.
Essay
and Poetry Awards from The Associated Church Press.
Selected Essays
“At the
“What Kind of Children?” Fourth Genre.
Forthcoming (Fall, 2006).
“Baboons on the
Cliff.” Boulevard. Spring, 2006.
“A Vocabulary for my
Senses.” Best American Travel Essays
2005.
Houghton Mifflin,
2005. Guest editor:
“Chasing
Charles Wesley.” Western Humanities Review Fall 2005:
5-19.
"And I'll Fly
Away." The
The 2004 Florida Review Editor's Prize in Nonfiction.
"A
Vocabulary for My Senses." The
The 2003 Missouri
Review Editor's Prize in Essay.
"Borobodur." Dynasty:
The Inflight Magazine of
"Mother of My
Soul." The Other Side July/August
1999: 10-13.
Associated Church Press Honorable Mention.
"Windstruck." The
"House of the
1998: 106-116.
"For Better or
For Worse." Modern Bride June/July
1996: 328 & 336.
Selected Criticism and
Cultural Commentary
“Shaping Modernism:
Sculptor Rita McBride.” DSM Magazine
Feb.-April 2005:
24-30.
"Hands Full of
Art." DSM Magazine August-October, 2004: 24-29.
"Objects of Power: The
Magazine 55:3 (June 2002): 16-18.
"A Beautiful Affliction: The Art of Erica
Grimm-Vance." Image: A Journal of
the
Arts and Religion 31 (Summer, 2001):
26-35.
"Secret Imperialism: The Reader's
Response to the Narrator in 'The Man Who
Would Be King'." English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920
31:2
(1988): 162-173.
"The Black African and the 'White Man's
God' in Things Fall Apart: Cultural
Repression or
Liberation?" Commonwealth 11:1
(1988): 70-76.
Selected Poems
“Spring Inventory / Ursuline Mother House /
5 April 2005: 22.
"Irish
Slip Jig."
"Most Days God is an
Hypothesis." The Other Side
March 2000: 17.
"Reasons to Stay on the Porch During Storms." The
Other Side Sept. 1999: 46-47.
Associated Church
Press Award of Merit. Also part of a set
of poems that
reached semi-finalist level
in “Discovery”/The Nation Contest, 1999.
"Late
Memorial." The Christian Century
26 April 1995: 458.
"Night
Janitor." Sojourners Jan. 1995:
25.
"The Things He Carried." Christianity and Literature Autumn 1994:
120.
Magazine
Editing
InterLit (International Literature). Cook Communications
Int'l,
Six years experience as editor of quarterly
trade journal for
publishers in developing
countries: planning themes, acquiring articles, guiding
authors on revision,
copy-editing, checking printers proofs, building circulation,
writing a column, etc.
Poetry reader and
proofreader.