Sometimes it really is about the writing. Just ask UW-Madison graduate Kevin A. Gonzalez, who won Playboy magazine’s annual College Fiction Contest this year.
His story, “Statehood,” about a 12- year-old Puerto Rican boy and his dad, is printed in the October issue and he won $3,000. Gonzalez was raised in Puerto Rico, got his MFA in poetry from UW-Madison and is now a graduate student at the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop.