Printable view of Patricia Schultheis

Listed as:

Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Public address:

Baltimore, MD

Maryland US

Email:

bpschult@yahoo.com

Bio:

Patricia Schultheis is a fiction and non-fiction writer whose dozens of stories and essays have been published national and international literary journals and reviews. Her pictorial local history, Baltimore’s Lexington Market, was published in 2007, and her collection of short stories titled St. Bart’s Way was a finalist for the 2008 Flannery O’Connor Award and Snake Nation Press awards. In 2015 St. Bart's Way received the award for fiction from Washington Writers' Publishing House. Other honors include awards from The Fitzgerald Writers’ Conference, Memoirs Ink, the American League of American Pen Women, Nob Hill Branch, Winning Writers, the 2018 ScreenCraft Competition and the 2020 Novel Slices competition. Patricia has twice been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, has served on the editorial boards of The Baltimore Review and Narrative and is a member of The Author’s Guild as well as a voting member of The National Book Critics Circle. She has taught in the Odyssey Program of Johns Hopkins University.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

David Means Stewart O'Nan Alice McDermott Susan Choi

Born in:

Bridgeport, CT

Connecticut

Raised in:

Bridgeport

Website:

https://www.pschultheis.net [2]

Prizes won:

2005, finalist, nonfiction, The Chatthoochee Review; 2006, award winner, fiction, The Fitzgerald Writers Conference; 2008 finalist, fiction, The Flannery O'Connor Award, The Snake Nation Press Award; 2010, Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; 2011, nonfiction award winner The Nob Hill Branch of the League of American Pen Women, Memoirs, Ink; 2013 First Prize, nonfiction, Sports Fiction and Essay Contest, Wining Writers; 2014 Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; 2015 Winner, Fiction, for St. Bart's Way, from Washington Writers' Publishing House; 2016 finalist, flash fiction, New Millennium Writings; 2018 quarter-finalist for Screencraft Award; 2019 Finalist, New Milennium Writings; 2020 Winner, non-fiction, the Nob Hill Branch of the League of American Pen Women; 2021 Second-place for short story and flash fiction, the Nob Hill Branch of the League of American Pen Women, Finalist, Novel Slices Competition, Finalist, flash fiction, New Milennium Writings, Finalist, short story collection, Steel Toe Books, Finalist, short story collection, Willow Springs Press.

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What I'm reading now:

Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor

Sula by Toni Morrison

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant

The Realities of Fiction by Nancy Hale

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgrkov

Writers Retreats:

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Teachers