Winner of "Women Hold Up Half the Sky" SciFi Contest
"Never turn your back on water"
by Courtney Watson
Partnering with Los Angeles Light Bringer Project, Artemis encourages SciFi short story writing with a strong female leading character.
Courtney Watson is a fiction and travel writer who earned her Ph.D. in English from The Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. A scholar of women writers as well as travel writing and literary tourism, she is always dreaming of her next destination and she is deeply inspired by the stories told in the places she visits.
She lives to tell her own stories about places like the haunting beaches of southern Iceland, where she wrote the first lines of the winning story “Never Turn Your Back on the Water," to be published in the upcoming Artemis Journal 2021.
Courtney is an Associate Professor of English at Radford University Carilion in Roanoke, Virginia. She teaches courses on women writers, health humanities, American modernism, & communication in the health sciences.