Honors, Awards, and Publications:

Gwendolyn Brooks Award

Guy Cooper Poetry Award

"Tree House Blues" in Harmony

"The First Time" in The American Goat

"Calamity James" in The Belle Reve

"Tall Boy" in Sirens Call

"A Response to Charles Bukowski: Yes, I'm Drinking Today" in the Burningword Literary Journal

"The Bohemian Waitress" in the Burningword Literary Journal

2014 Pushcart Prize Nominee for "Calamity James"

2013 Bad Day Books Rogue Writing Contest Grand Prize Winner

Insurgency by Bad Day Books, an imprint of Assent Publishing, Summer of 2014 Release 

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Kurt Schuett's debut novel Insurgency, a speculative work of fiction that can best be categorized as an urban suspense horror, is set to release during the Summer of 2014 by Bad Day Books, an imprint of Assent Publishing.  Insurgency will be available both in print and in all e-book platforms.

Recent works by Kurt Schuett include the Southern Gothic paranormal story titled "Calamity James," which has been nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize, and "Tall Boy," a contemporary work of horror.

Kurt completed his undergraduate degree in English at Culver-Stockton College before tackling a Masters of Education at Graceland University.  Currently, he is entering his seventeenth year as an educator, formerly as a German instructor and presently as a high school English teacher, working in the suburbs of Chicago.  Kurt lives in the northern suburb of Libertyville, Illinois.

Proud member of the Horror Writers Association.

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