Deirdra McAfee

2024

 

• "The Girl Who Slept with Death," The Ghost Story (honorable mention)

• Muse & Marketplace
• Fiction fellowship, Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow

 

 

2019 

• Rusty Barn Interdisciplinary Fellowship II, Kettering, England
• Fiction fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

 

2018
• Tin House Summer Workshop

• “Disfiguration,” Into the Void
• The Circus of Bare Skin, finalist, Eludia Award for the Novel
• Lock & Load: Armed Fiction national tour—social media, publicity, events

2017
• Kentucky Women Writers Conference
• Co-editor/contributor, Lock & Load: Armed Fiction, University of New Mexico Press
• The Rusty Barn Interdisciplinary Fellowship 
• 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
• Co-editor/contributor, Lock & Load: Armed Fiction, University of New Mexico Press, for fall 2017

2014
• “Baudelaire's Sister at the Betty Ford,” Finalist, Tupelo Quarterly Prose Open
• Fiction fellowship, VCCA France
• Reading, KGB Bar
• Co-editor, Lock & Load: Armed Fiction (editing, rights)
• 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
• "Mudra," Think Small! exhibition
• "A Close Shave on Gorky Street," Big Muddy, Volume 10.2
• "Hydroplane," NMW, Issue 20 
• Kenyon Review Writers Workshop

2010
• "Hydroplane," 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 

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
• Emcee, Sound & Sense, Virginia Poets at the Library of Virginia
     (Claudia Emerson, Joshua Poteat, and others)

• Editor, Sound & Sense, Virginia Poets at the Library of Virginia (chapbook)

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

1998
• Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writers’ Conference
• Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Prize

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• 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 
• Editor and contributor to Lock & Load: Armed Fiction, University of New Mexico Press, 2017
• Fiction fellowships at MacDowell, VCCA, Ragdale, Ucross, The Hambidge Center, The Vermont Studio Center, and others
• Member, PEN, National Book Critics Circle, Authors Guild

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