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HOORAY: Fresh News Straight from Heaven: A Novel Based on the True Mythology of Johnny Appleseed won the 2024 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for Excellence in Literary Historical Fiction!

JUST RELEASED: “Mother Fracking Earth Day” (Book Seven of the “Holidazed” series) REVIEW: “Satire, especially satire willing to touch on current and controversial politics, seems to be getting rarer and rarer. Thankfully, Sapp does not shy away from tackling those politics. He also tackles them rather masterfully too.” Lisbeth Ivies on Discovery 

(4/2024) My essay, “A Lazy Person’s Guide to Finding Purpose in the Universe,” got over 3.5K claps on Medium. 

(11/23) My essay, “Something Went Wrong? Blame Newtwon,” won a Medium humor contest. 

(7/23) I’ve published a new short story, “Buzzard Day,” in the lit journal Instant Noodles. Homage to Hinkley, Ohio.

(12/23) “New Year’s Eve, 1999,” Book Six of the “Holidazed” series, was published by Evolved Publishing. 

(9/22) Check out my interview, “Satire as a Coping Mechanism,” on Robb Grindstaff’s blog, “A Writers Block.”

9/2022 “Thanksgiving, Thanksgotten, Thanksgone, Book Five of the “Holidazed” series, was published by Evolved Publishing. 

(7/2022) My story, “Pray,” was published in the “Loss and Gratitude” theme issue of the online publication,  Muleskinner Journal, https://www.muleskinnerjournal.com/pray

(summer 2022) I published a story, “TRx,” in Abbey Review. 

(5/2022) My story, “The Spud,” appeared in Darkhouses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction, no. 4, May 2022: 87-109. Homage to Frank Zappa.

(5/2022) I published “Knock Knock” in the literary journal Creative Colloquy

(9/2021) My short story, “Clean Enough to Eat Off,” which was published in the Summer 2021 issue of 96Logic, was nominated for the annual Pushcart Prize for the Best in Indie Lit. Cool.

(2/2021) “Murder by Valentine Candy,” Book Four of the “Holidazed” series was published by Evolved Publishing. 

(summer 2020): I published a short story, “Nocturnal Emissions,” in Goat’s Milk Magazine. 

Special Note: By popular demand (?!?), I am placing the entirety my published creative writing on Medium. As I add to the catalog, I’ll also include excerpts, new original material, unpublished stuff, works in progress, and other odds and ends. The first story is “Fu Manchu, Foo Man Choo, Man Chew Food,” which originally appeared in Zodiac Review, spring 2012. Go to https://sappgregg.medium.com/