Deirdra McAfee
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photo: Bob Thomas
Each reader reads only what is already within himself. —Proust
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.—Lewis Carroll
Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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So far . . ..............................................................................
2010 • Story forthcoming, fall issue of Big Muddy • VCCA France fellowship, Auvillar • Martha's Vineyard Writers Residency • The Porches, novel retreat • Kenyon Review Writers Conference 2009 • Top finalist, Gival Press Short Story Award • Story in The Georgia Review, fall issue • Fiction residency, The Hambidge Center (collaboration on process and place with painter Jeanne Lamosse) 2008 • Second Prize, Hackney Literary Awards National Story Contest • Honorable Mention (top five), New Millennium Summer Fiction Contest • Novel excerpt chosen for “Iowa Writes” • VCCA France fellowship, Auvillar • Fiction scholarship, Tin House Summer Workshop 2007 • H. E. Francis Prize • 5th place, Nelson Algren Award • AWP's WC&C Fiction Scholarship • Fiction scholarship, Gettysburg Review Conference • Residency and artist’s grant, Vermont Studio Center • Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (scholarship finalist) 2006 • Pushcart XXX Special Mention • Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference 2005 • Seattle Review Fiction Prize • Pushcart Prize nomination 2004 • STYLE Fiction Prize 2003 • Web del Sol’s Best of the Zines, twice • Best American Nonrequired Reading nomination 1998 • Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Sewanee Writers’ Conference • Poets & Writers Writers Exchange Prize Widely published in print and online, including Paper Street, The Rio Grande Review, The Baltimore Review, Confrontation, Willow Springs, The Diagram, and others Anthologized in Sex & Chocolate and The Diagram .2 (click links for excerpts) Residencies at MacDowell, VCCA, Ragdale, Ucross, The Hambidge Center, The Vermont Studio Center, and others MFA, fiction, The New School Editorial training, GWU Publication Specialist Program MA, English literature, Georgetown BA, English literature, University of Florida |