Deirdra McAfee
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.
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Each reader reads only what is already within himself.
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
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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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The Writing Program
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Projects / Publications / Events.............................................................................
2018
• “Disfiguration,” Into the Void • The Circus of Bare Skin, finalist, Eludia Award Lock & Load: Armed Fiction national tour—social media, publicity, events - Washington - New York - Baltimore - Charlottesville - Richmond - Greensboro - Tampa - Chicago - Fredericksburg - Asheville - Lexington KY - And points west • Panelist/presenter: - Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville - CityLit, Baltimore - Kentucky Women Writers Conference, Lexington - James River Writers, Richmond 2017 • Kentucky Women Writers Conference • Editor, with BettyJoyce Nash, of Lock & Load: Armed Fiction, anthology of literary fiction about guns, University of New Mexico Press • Interdisciplinary fellowship, the Rusty Barn Colloquium • AWP 2017 2016 • Kentucky Women Writers Conference • Fiction fellowship, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany • North Carolina Writers Network spring conference • Fiction fellowship, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow 2015 • Shortlist, New Millennium Writings Short-Short Prize • “Pia's Daughter,” Shenandoah • Editor, Lock & Load, anthology of American literary fiction, University of New Mexico Press, spring 2017. 2014 • “Baudelaire's Sister at the Betty Ford,” Finalist, Tupelo Quarterly Prose Open • Fiction fellowship, VCCA France • Reading, KGB Bar • Editor, with BettyJoyce Nash, of Lock & Load: Armed and Dangerous Fiction • Talkback moderator, On-the-Air Radio Players: - “The Lottery,” Shirley Jackson - “Nightfall,” Isaac Asimov • AWP, Seattle • Fiction fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 2013
• Shortlist, NMW Short-Short Prize • Kentucky Women Writers' Conference 2012
• Kentucky Women Writers Conference • Vortext at Hedgebrook • Fiction fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 2011
• Story and reading, Think Small! exhibition • Story, Big Muddy, Volume 10.2 • Story, NMW, Issue 20 • Kenyon Review Writers Workshop 2010
• Short-Short Fiction Prize, New Millennium Writings • Shortlist, Best American Fantasy 4 • Fiction fellowship, Martha's Vineyard Writers Residency • Fiction fellowship, VCCA France • Kenyon Review Writers Workshop 2009 • Story, The Georgia Review, fall issue • Top finalist, Gival Press Short Story Award • Fiction fellowship, The Hambidge Center (collaboration with painter) 2008 • Second Prize, Hackney Literary Awards National Story Contest • Shortlist, NMW Fiction Prize • Novel excerpt, “Iowa Writes” • Fiction fellowship, VCCA France • Fiction scholarship, Tin House Summer Workshop • Editor, Sound & Sense, Virginia poets at the Library of Virginia (Claudia Emerson, Joshua Poteat, and others) 2007 • H. E. Francis Prize • Fifth place, Nelson Algren Award • WC&C Scholarship, Association of Writing Programs • Fiction scholarship, Gettysburg Review Conference • Fellowship and artist’s grant, Vermont Studio Center • Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (scholarship finalist) 2006 • Pushcart XXX Special Mention • Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference • Editor, Modern and Contemporary Art at VMFA 2005 • Seattle Review Fiction Prize • Pushcart Prize nomination • Editor, Views of Shenandoah National Park 2004 • MFA, fiction, The New School • STYLE Fiction Prize • Prose editor, LIT 2003 • Web del Sol’s Best of the Zines, twice • Best American Nonrequired Reading nomination • Prose editor, LIT, The New School Writing Program's literary magazine 1998 • Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Sewanee Writers’ Conference • Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Prize Bio-Widely published in print and online, including Shenandoah, The Georgia Review, Willow Springs, The Diagram, Confrontation, The Rio Grande Review, The Baltimore Review, and others -Anthologized in Sex & Chocolate and The Diagram .2 (click links on "Work" page for excerpts) -Fiction fellowships at MacDowell, VCCA, Ragdale, Ucross, The Hambidge Center, The Vermont Studio Center, and others |
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