SPECIMENS: True and Un-Altered Notes on an Inadvertent Adventure of an Unusual Nature, the Which Contains Sorrow, Death, Danger, Art and Great Happiness

SHORTLISTED for WILBUR AND NISO SMITH FOUNDATION ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE – 2019

(as-yet unpublished manuscript)

 

HAWTHORNDEN LITERARY INSTITUTE FELLOWSHIP – 2019

Casa Ecco, Italy

 

Essay: Truth and the Rhinoceros

DISQUIET INTERNATIONAL LITERARY PRIZE: NONFICTION – Finalist 2018

 

LEAPFROG PRESS FICTION CONTEST – 2017 Semifinalist

An earlier draft-in-progress of my novel, SPECIMENS

HAWTHORNDEN INTERNATIONAL WRITERS FELLOWSHIP – 2015

Hawthornden Castle, Scotland

 

GRUB STREET: MUSE & THE MARKETPLACE

Boston, MA

A workshop for writers on May 2, 2015

Literary Humor:  Tips and Techniques

 

THE AMANDA CHRONICLES!

A sophisticated satire column on a British-based international website “for women who weren’t born yesterday”. *

Imagine someone like Eloise (who was six and lived at the Plaza),

only very grown up and worldly wise.

That’s Amanda.

 Read  all eleven of The Amanda Chronicles here — and laugh!

(*I will be posting the published “Amandas” here soon – sadly, sadly, Amanda’s brilliant and wonderful publisher died  and the column is temporarily on hold.)

Sometimes humor is no laughing matter.

Read Seriously Funny about humor as a tool for political resistance here:

https://writersblock.loft.org/2012/08/29/1137/seriously_funny