I'm Starting a Collection (of Collections)
I started the new year right, with an email from Dzanc Books letting me know that my latest manuscript had made the longlist of their...
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- Jun 30, 2022
- 1 min
Hudson Prize Finalist!
I'm still pinching myself and revisiting the post to be sure I'm still on there. My collection of short fiction, "Why Shit Is Still Like...
- May 20, 2022
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The Masters Review Chapbook Open: Shortlist
So honored to see my chapbook of flash fiction on the shortlist for The Masters Review's Chapbook Open. The others on this list have some...
- May 1, 2022
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Top 5 Finalist for the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction
So honored to be among five finalists for the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction! Thank you to Press 53 readers and editors, Claire V....
- Mar 29, 2022
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Coming Out of Hiding
I was scheduled to give a reading as part of the Sunday Reading Series in Chicago on March 15, 2020, and... you can probably guess how...
- Feb 25, 2022
- 1 min
Illinois Arts Council Grant
So grateful to the Illinois Arts Council Agency for awarding me an Individual Artist Grant for the summer of 2022. Hoping to update this...
- Mar 13, 2020
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I'm Gonna Be in Best Small Fictions!
Look at this incredible thing I just got to wake up to: "Dear Molly: Congratulations, your work "What You Have Been Told" has been chosen...
- Mar 4, 2020
- 1 min
Sunday Reading Series at Hungry Brain (Sunday March 15, 7pm)
Looking forward to reading alongside Thomas Burke and CM Burroughs at the Sunday Reading Series at Hungry Brain next weekend! Sunday...
- Mar 4, 2020
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I Wrote an Essay About True Love, Racehorses, and Harry Styles
Last summer, I wrote my very first personal essay. I've never really understood how creative nonfiction people did it. Personal essays...
- Oct 29, 2019
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Visiting Writer: Medaille College
I'm very excited to be visiting Medaille College next week to participate in their "Write Thing" literary reading series. I'll be...
- Oct 28, 2019
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Very Excited to be Joining the Split Lip Team!
Starting November 1, I'll be leaving my readership at The Masters Review and taking on a position as Assistant Fiction Editor at Split...
- Oct 20, 2019
- 1 min
Copyediting for Fiction
I’m just finishing up a course in Copyediting for Fiction, which is honestly super fun if you’re a bit of an editorial geek. :) I’ve been...
- Oct 15, 2019
- 2 min
Misc. News, Fall 2019
After a really perfect, slow summer with just the right amount of teaching and just the right amount of editorial work to keep me going...
- Oct 1, 2019
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2 Upcoming Readings
Two upcoming readings: (1) Write Thing Reading Series - Medaille College (Buffalo, NY) - free and open to the public (Thursday November...
- Oct 1, 2019
- 1 min
Pushcart Nomination: Just After Joy
So excited to have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Cheap Pop for my tiny micro, Just After Joy. You’ll obviously hear my joy from...
- May 7, 2019
- 1 min
Is This the Real Life?
This is the online course I'm teaching for teens at The Loft Literary Center this summer. I think/hope it's gonna be a lot of fun. :) If...
- Mar 25, 2019
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Interview with Didi Wood (author of my editor's selection for SmokeLong Quarterly)
I was so honored to be invited to be a guest editor for SmokeLong Quarterly, to my eye one of the best literary journals publishing...
- Feb 5, 2019
- 1 min
Tuesday Funk Reading (Chicago): Feb 2019
Video now available of the DEADLY ICE STORM READING, the audience for which was a room full of die-hards who trekked through - - - well,...
- Nov 19, 2018
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3rd Prize in Bridport Prize: What Real Men Wish They Dreamed
So honored to be included in the 2018 Bridport Prize anthology with my tiny flash story, 'What Real Men Wish They Dreamed,' which was...
- Jul 22, 2018
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"Surprise Yourself! Using Playful Structures to Discover Material You Didn't Know You Had in You"
I'm looking forward to teaching a new class at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis this Fall. It's an online course, 6 weeks, and...
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