David Wesley Williams

David Wesley Williams (born October 5, 1961) is author of Long Gone Daddies, a lyrical novel in the Southern style about three generations of musicians and the family guitar. The novel (ISBN: 978-0-89587-593-8) was released March 5, 2013, and was published by John F. Blair, Publisher, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

A native of Maysville, Kentucky, Williams is currently the sports editor at The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee. He began his career there in 1988 after previously working as a sports writer/columnist for The Ledger-Independent in Maysville, Kentucky, and the York Daily Record in York, Pennsylvania. He won the national Associated Press Sports Editors competition for column writing (under 50,000 circulation) in 1986 and placed third in the same competition in 1987 while at the York Daily Record.

His fiction has been published by Harper Perennial’s Fifty-Two Stories, The Pinch, The Common, and Night Train. Williams was chosen for Richard Bausch’s Richard_Bausch Moss Workshop in Fiction at the University of Memphis in 2003 and attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (http://sewaneewriters.org/) in 2010, where he studied under Padgett Powell Padgett_Powell. Long Gone Daddies is his first novel. He is a graduate of Morehead State University in Kentucky.

Works Long Gone Daddies, March 2013 published by John F. Blair, Publisher, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (ISBN: 978-0-89587-593-8 “I’ll Take You There,” short story published by Harper Perennial’s Fifty-Two Stories, Dec. 2010, and included in HP’s Forty Stories compilation, published as eBook July 2012 “Memphis Minnie’s Ashes,” short story published in 2011 as “best ever” winner of Memphis Magazine Fiction Contest; originally named contest winner in 2002 “Strange Things Happening Every Day,” short story, third place in The Pinch literary journal’s 2008 Literary Awards in Fiction and Poetry “Let Me Tell You, Boys, of Sweet Mayhem,” short story published by Night Train, 2008 “The Secret of Bird Flight,” short story published by River City literary journal (now The Pinch), 2005 “I’ll Rob for You a Bank or Two,” Southern Hum online journal, 2005