Mina Manchester
BIO
Mina Manchester is a Scandinavian-American writer chasing the sun in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Sewanee School of Letters, her work has been featured in Electric Literature, HuffPost, The Evergreen Review, Columbia Journal, The Normal School, Inscape and others. Her work has been chosen as a Finalist for The Masters Review Short Story Award, the Pinch Literary Award, the Bellingham Review Annie Dillard Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Cutthroat Journal Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, honored by New Millennium Writings and nominated for the UCLA James Kirkwood Prize. A former Editor-At-Large for Five South and Assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine, her workshop experience includes The Kenyon Review Writing Workshop, The Writer’s Hotel, and Narrative’s Art of the Story.
Photo credit: Emma Burdett
WRITING
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"The God Committee," The Evergreen Review, September 2023
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"The Famous Artist Wellness Program," with Russ Rubin, Electric Literature, March 2023
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"Diane Arbus Reviews awkwardfamilyphoto.com," Electric Literature, December 2022
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"How Shall I Reject Thee? Let Me Count the Ways," Electric Literature, December 2022
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"An Open Letter to the Nutcracker Ballet," Electric Literature, December 2022
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"My NaNoWriMo Diary," with Lauren Christiansen, Electric Literature, November 2022
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Be Persistent. An Interview with Carol Orange, Five South, June 2021
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Seeking New Perspectives. An Interview with Donna Florio, Five South, May 2021
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Playing the Long Game. An Interview with Marcia Butler, Five South, April 2021
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"Not This Time," Inscape, Fall 2020 (print only)
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"The Plumber," Close-but-no-cigar shortlist, The Molotov Cocktail, Fall 2020
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"What Parenting Immunocompromised Kids Taught Me About Battling Coronavirus," HuffPost, March 2020
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"Five Brutally Honest Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Had Kids," Dispatch From Daybreak, March 2020
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"I'm Sad for the Version of Me that has Cancer, but I Talk About it to Help Others," Interview with Caroline Crocker Moore, Hither & Thither, June 2019
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Interview with Elizabeth Forsyth, Hither & Thither, April 2019
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Interview with Elizabeth Laime, Hither & Thither, March 2019
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Interview with Elizabeth Forsyth, Hither & Thither, April 2019
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"Screen Time," The Normal School, August 2018
AWARDS, INTERVIEWS & WORKSHOPS
AWARDS
Honorable Mention, New Millennium Writings, 2023
Shortlisted, The Master's Review Short Story Award for New Writers, 2023
Finalist, Bellingham Review Annie Dillard Award in Creative Nonfiction 2022
Finalist, Pinch Literary Award 2020
Nominated UCLA James Kirkwood Prize in Creative Writing 2019
Finalist, Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, Cutthroat Journal of the Arts 2015
INTERVIEWS
Spoken Label podcast
WORKSHOPS
Kenyon Review Writing Workshop 2019
The Writer's Hotel 2019, TA 2020-21
Narrative The Art of the Story 2015