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    UW-Madison Writers’ Institute

    Sep 10, 2019 2 minutes
    BY MELISSA HART

    Retired Milwaukee firefighter Gregory Lee Renz attended the UW-Madison Writers’ Institute with an idea for a novel based on his work experience, taking first place in both fiction and nonfiction in the Institute’s 2015 writing contest. And then, after years of writing and revision, he sold his debut novel, Beneath the Flames (HenschelHAUS, 2019).

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