“The Good Life,” a short novel by University of Arkansas - Monticello faculty member Mark Spencer and his wife Rebecca, has been accepted for publication in the online literary journal Admit Two. 

   Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, Spencer is also a professor at UAM. He has published two novels in print form – “Love and Reruns in Adams County” (Random House) and “The Weary Motel” (Backwaters Press). He has published two collections of short stories and over 100 articles and stories in various national and international journals as well as.  

   Spencer has received the Faulkner Society’s Faulkner Award for The Short Novel, the Omaha Prize for The Novel, the Bradshaw Book Award, the Cairn-St. Andrews Press Short Fiction Award and four “Special Mentions” in Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. “The Good Life” is his first collaboration with his wife Rebecca. 

   Rebecca Spencer is a homemaker, freelance photojournalist and a newsletter correspondent for the Oklahoma chapter of the national charity Newborns in Need. 

   According to Spencer, “The Good Life” is the story of a 66-year-old farmer/school teacher/part-time moving man named Fowood, who reflects on the successes, disappointments, moral righteousness and missed opportunities of his life while contemplating the meaning of a good life. “The Good Life” will be published in two to three installments in Admit Two beginning in January. 

   Admit Two is an international online literary journal published every other month and can be accessed on the internet at www.admit2.net.