Winner of the The Fugere Book Prize for Finely Crafted Novellas, for his forthcoming book AMERICAN MOON from Regal House Publishing 

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David W. Berner is the author of several books of award-winning fiction and personal narrative and is the current Poet Laureate of the Village of Clarendon Hills, Illinois. He is the recipient of honors and awards from the NYC Big Book Award, the Paris Book Festival, the Hawthorne Prize, the Page Turner Awards, the Readers' Choice Awards, The Society of Midland Authors, The Chicago Writers Association, and the Eric Hoffer Book Awards.

 

His short stories, creative nonfiction, and poems have been published in The Ulu Review, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Humans of the World, Red Noise Collective, Voices, The Lascaux Review, and others.

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David is also the author of the Substack newsletter THE ABUNDANCE. 

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He also has been honored as a former Writer-in-Residence at the Jack Kerouac Project in Orlando and at the Ernest Hemingway Birthplace Home and Museum in Oak Park, Illinois.