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Listed as:

Poet

Public address:

Bloomington , IL

Illinois US

Email:

lauraswny@hotmail.com

Bio:

Laura Sweeney facilitates Writers for Life in Iowa and Illinois. She represented the Iowa Arts Council at the First International Teaching Artist's Conference in Oslo, Norway. Her poems and prose appear in seventy plus journals, and twenty-four anthologies, in the States, Canada, Britain, Indonesia, and China. Her recent awards include a scholarship to the Sewanee Writer's Conference. She is a PhD candidate in English Studies/Creative Writing at Illinois State University where she can be found walking the Consitution Trail with her adorbs mini-doxie Freya.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Born in:

Estherville, IA

Iowa

Raised in:

IA

Iowa

Website:

https://lauraswny.journoportfolio.com/ [2]

Prizes won:

Women of Appalachia Project, Juried Participant, 2021
Princemere Poetry Prize, Semi-Finalist, 2021
Poetry Society of Michigan's Barbara Sykes Memorial Humor Award, 2021
Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, Editor's Prize in Flash Discourse, 2021
St. Petersburg Review's Summer Literary Seminar, Juried Participant, Virtual Master Class in Hybrid Writing, 2021
Kaz Creative NonFiction Conference, Juried Participant, 2020
Sewanee Writer's Conference MFA Scholarship, 2019.
Sundress Publications Poetry Workshop & Residency Scholarship, 2019.
Iowa Arts Council delegate, First International Teaching Artist's Conference, Oslo, Norway
Grin City Collective Artist & Writers Residency Scholarship, 2009

Education:

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Writers Retreats:

Sewanee Writers’ Conference

Prefers to work with:

Any