Mina Manchester
ABOUT
Mina Manchester's work has appeared or is forthcoming from HuffPost, Columbia Journal, The Normal School, Inscape, The Evergreen Review and Electric Literature. She's a graduate of the Sewanee School of Letters and former editor-at-large for Five South and Assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine. A Scandinavian American who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, she's now a sun worshipper living in Los Angeles with her family.
WRITING
FICTION
"Diane Arbus Reviews awkwardfamilyphoto.com," Electric Literature, December 2022
"How Shall I Reject Thee? Let Me Count the Ways," Electric Literature, December 2022
"An Open Letter to the Nutcracker Ballet," Electric Literature, December 2022
"My NaNoWriMo Diary," co-written with Lauren Christiansen, Electric Literature, November 2022
"Not This Time," Inscape, Fall 2020 (print only)
"Opening Day," Finalist, Pinch Literary Award 2020
"The Plumber," Close-but-no-cigar shortlist shout-out, The Molotov Cocktail 2020
"Diving In," Columbia Journal, December 2019
"Screen Time," The Normal School, August 2018
"Fight or Flight," Finalist, Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, Cutthroat Journal of the Arts 2015
NONFICTION
"Forgiveness in the Time of Covid," Finalist, Bellingham Review’s 2021 Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction 2022
"What Parenting Immunocompromised Kids Taught Me About Battling Coronavirus," HuffPost, March 2020
"Five Brutally Honest Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Had Kids," Dispatch From Daybreak, March 2020
Writer Interviews for Five South
"What Keeps You Up At Night," interview series for Hither & Thither
AWARDS, INTERVIEWS& WORKSHOPS
AWARDS
Nominated for UCLA James Kirkwood Prize in Creative Writing
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Spoken Label podcast
WORKSHOPS
Kenyon Review Writing Workshop 2019
The Writer's Hotel 2019, TA 2020-21
Narrative Magazine's The Art of the Story 2015
EDITING
PROFESSIONAL EDITING
Novel, short story, flash, personal essay, nonfiction, creative nonfiction and humor
Developmental edits
Line editing
Please contact me to discuss your project.