Arendse Lund’s short fiction “The Toll Bridge” won the Staunch Book Prize, an international award celebrating fiction that contains no violence against women. The short story, describing an unnerving encounter on a train, gave the judges “absolute chills.” Arendse is the first American to win the short fiction award.
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