Press & Praise for Bethany's Work

“A powerful, personal story based on real events.”
--The Saturday Evening Post, on “No Swimming at Monson’s”

“Great scene setting and good characterization...rich details, and in the end comes full circle.”
--Litmosphere, on “Sand Spurs”

“The essay takes on this question with stark clarity and relentless reflective grace. When you read this piece, you walk away knowing you have come into contact with something terrifying and true; you see, with a tender focus, the fragility and power of embodied experience.”
--Stacey Waite, Special Guest Judge, Diana Woods Memorial Award, on “The Question I Couldn't Ask”

“Bruno is able to pull these disparate elements together and corral all that and us into a serene, satisfying, and hopeful close.”
--Short Story Shoutout, on “Manatees Don’t Dream of Electric Boats”

“Bethany Bruno’s ‘After the Lake Broke Its Promise’ and ‘The Museum of Unused Hours’ turn disaster and private regret into their own forms of accounting, insisting that what is lost still be counted, still be witnessed.”
--Lindsay Sproul, Editor-in-Chief of New Orleans Review

“A tense moment in time that leaves the reader hungry.”
--Glassworks, on “Boiling Point”

“Explores a Florida shaped by memory, myth, and the uneasy distance between paradise and reality.”
--The Adroit Journal, on “Buried”