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G.G. Silverman [1]

Listed as:

Fiction Writer

Bio:

G.G. Silverman is a feminist author who lives just north of Seattle. She is also disabled and the daughter of immigrants. Her short fiction was most recently a finalist for the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing, and nominated for the Best Small Fictions anthology, among other honors, and her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from StrangeHouse Press, QU, Psychopomp, Speculative City, Corvid Queen, So To Speak, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, The Iron Horse Literary Review, The Seventh Wave, Molotov Cocktail, and more. She is currently at work on a short story collection as well as a poetry collection. To learn more, please go to www.ggsilverman.com [2].

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Favorite authors:

Aimee Bender, Karen Russell, Kelly Link, Carmen Maria Machado, Jeff Vandermeer, Marlon James, Mona Awad, Joyce Carol Oates, Toni Morrison, Italo Calvino, Angela Carter

Twitter/X:

GG_Silverman

Website:

https://www.ggsilverman.com [3]

Prizes won:

• Finalist, Bridge Eight Short Story Prize, 2022
• Finalist, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing, 2020
• Semi-finalist, River Styx Microfiction Award, 2020
• Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Prize 2018
• Spirit First Poetry Prize, First Place, 2018
• Nominated for Best Small Fictions anthology award, 2018
• Finalist, Iceland Writers Retreat Writing Contest, 2017
• Finalist, District Lit Flash Fiction Prize, 2017
• Finalist, So to Speak feminist literature + art Short Fiction Prize, 2017
• Finalist, The Offbeat Flash Fiction Prize 2016
• Finalist, New Millennium Writings Flash Fiction Prize, 2016
• Finalist, Molotov Cocktail Flash Phenom Contest, 2016
• Finalist, ScreenCraft Short Story Prize 2016
• Finalist, North Street Book Prize, 2015
• Winner, Litreactor “Teleport Us” Sci-Fi Writing Challenge 2013
• Finalist for 2012 PNWA literary award, Short Fiction
• 1st Place, Summer 2012 Women on Writing Flash Fiction Contest

Identifies as:

Italian American

Prefers to work with:

Disability

Teachers

Women