Alle C. Hall

As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back is Alle C. Hall’s debut novel, which won:

• First Place, 2022 International Firebird Book Awards: Literary;

• First Place 2022 International Firebird Book Awards: Coming of Age;

• Second Place, 2022 International Firebird Book Awards: Women’s Issues;

• First Place (excerpt), 2022 National League of American Pen Women’s Mary Kennedy Eastham Flash Fiction Prize; and

• First Finalist (excerpt), 2022 Lascaux Prize

Hall’s short stories appear in journals including Dale Peck’s Evergreen Review, Tupelo Quarterly, New World Writing, and Litro; and her essays in Creative Nonfiction and Another Chicago. She has written for The Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, and was a contributing editor at The Stranger. She is the former senior nonfiction editor at jmww journal, the former associate editor of Vestal Review.