CURRENT NEWS
2022-2024
Wieland co-writes the screenplay for Letting Loose the Hounds with Brady Udall, based on Udall’s short story from The Paris Review. The 2022 short film stars David H. Stevens (Punch Drunk Love, The Crow: Salvation, The American West, Penny Dreadful, and Yellowstone.)
The Ghosts of Okuma is a finalist in Screencraft’s 2022 Cinematic Novel Competition.
The Ghosts of Okuma is a finalist in Launchpad’s 2022 Prose Competition.
The Ghosts of Okuma is currently a top-rated novel on Coverfly’s Red List. The book has been #1 all-time in drama novels for over a year.
“Snow Angels”—an excerpt from The Ghosts of Okuma— is featured in the 2023 anthology Hello, I Love You: Stories of Romance.
“This Isn’t the Actual Sea” by Corinna Vallianatos, a short story from Wieland’s last issue as editor of The Idaho Review, is included in The Best American Short Stories 2023. Another story from the issue makes the top 100 in The Best American Short Stories.