Andrea Witzke Slot

Author's Bio

Andrea Witzke Slot is winner of Able Muse and Fiction International’s 2015 Prizes in Fiction, with her winning pieces described by Eugenia Kim as having “a rare and satisfying command of storytelling” and by Harold Jaffe as “meld[ing] compression, humor, keen intelligence, and social awareness in a savory 300 words.” Author of To find a new beauty (Gold Wake Press), recent work can be found in a number of UK and US journals, including Ambit, Acumen, American Literary Review, Mid-American Review, Meridian, Under the Radar, and Southeast Review. An American expat and permanent resident of the UK, Andrea lives in London but visits Chicago regularly. Her long fiction and creative nonfiction is represented by Stephanie Sinclair at Transatlantic Literary Agency.

Publications and Prizes

Prizes Won: 
Shortlisted for Eyewear Press's Beverly Prize, January 2017. First Prize in Able Muse's 2015 Write Prize in Fiction; First Prize in Fiction International's 2015 Short Short Story Contest; Three Pushcart Nominations; Nomination for the 2015 Independent Best American Poetry Anthology. Runner-up, finalist, &/or honorable mention in Arts & Letters' Unclassifiables Contest, Meridian's Flash Fiction Prize, River Styx Schlafly Beer Micro-Fiction Contest, the Calvino Short Story Prize, Aroho's 2014 Clarissa Dalloway Book Prize (Novel), Black Lawrence Press's Hudson Prize (Second Poetry Collection), MId-American Review's Fine Line Competition, Tupelo Quarterly's Open Prose Contests, Southeast Review's Gearhart Prize, among others

More Information

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer, Poet
Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
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Last updated: Aug 08, 2019