ABOUT

Fred McGavran | Award-winning author and graduate of Kenyon College and Harvard Law School.

McGavran won the Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Award in the horror category, the Winning Writers Contest, the Raymond Carver Award from Humboldt State University, and has placed in many other literary and screenwriting contests. His stories have appeared in Rosebud, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Harvard Review, Storgy.co, The London Journal of Fiction and many other literary magazines and e-zines.

His wife Liz is a decorator. Their older daughter Sarah creates art installations for medical facilities, and their younger daughter Marian, a paralegal, just had her second child.

Awards

The Baklanov Equations: Fred’s short story collection The Baklanov Equations was a finalist in The Digging Press Chapbook 2019 contest.
2016 Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition
“A Killer App,” to be published in the contest anthology in July 2017.
2016 J.F. Powers Contest, Honorary Mention
“The Reliquary of Charles Spears” published in Dappled Things.
2015 Aestas Contest, Honorary Mention
“How Do You Know”
2013 Rosebud Contest, Honorary Mention
“The Sirens of La Jolla,” published in Issue 57.
WordPlay 3rd Quarter Writing Contest Winner, 2010
$10,000 Ohio Arts Council Individual Achievement Award, 2009
The Reincarnation of Horlach Spencer,” published in Issue 37 of of Harvard Review (Spring 2010).
Winning Writers Most Highly Commended, 2009
“The Pennington Scarabs” Read This Story Here >>
Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Awards First Place, 2008
Horror Category for “Look at the Dead Person.”
St. Lawrence Award 2007
The Butterfly Collector, an anthology of 15 stories.
Winning Writers First Place, 2004
“Watching Time”
Humboldt State University’s Raymond Carver Award, 2003
“The Butterfly Collector”