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Kathryn Brackett

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Honors and Awards


  • WOW! Women on Writing, Flash Fiction Contest, Runner Up, Winter 2022
  • WOW! Women on Writing, Flash Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention, Fall 2021
  • The William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Novella, Semi-Finalist, 2021
  • The William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Essay, Finalist, 2019
  • She Writes Press, STEP Scholarship, Novel Among the Top 5 Finalists, 2018
  • Short Story America Prize, Honorable Mention, 2018
  • The William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Novel, Semi-Finalist, 2017 and 2018
  • Short Story America Prize, Finalist, 2017 
  • The William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Novella, Finalist, 2016
  • The William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, Short Story Finalist, 2015 
  • Gemini Magazine, Short Story Contest, Notable Mention, 2012
  • Sue Lile Inman Fiction Award, Emrys Journal, 2012
  • Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Journal of the Stars, Honorable Mention, 2011
  • WordHustler's Page to Screen Story Contest, Third Place, 2011 (Work judged by Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants)
  • Memoirs Contest, Third Place, The Writers' Workshop, 2009 
  • Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Awards, Second Place, SC Writers Workshop, 2008 
  • SCC Celebrates the Arts Competition, First Place, 2006 
  • Story Nomination, Best New American Voices, 2006 
  • A&S African American Summer Research Grant, 2004 & 2005 
  • K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship, 2003-2004 
  • Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize, Honorable Mention, 2003 
  • And others... 

Publications

WOW! - Women on Writing Contest

Short Story America Anthology Volume VII

WOW! - Women on Writing Contest

"Letting Go"

(Runner Up, Winter Flash Fiction Contest 2022)

Read the Story

Tales from the Moonlit Path

Short Story America Anthology Volume VII

WOW! - Women on Writing Contest

"The Rebound"

(February 2022)

Read the Story

Short Story America Anthology Volume VII

Short Story America Anthology Volume VII

Short Story America Anthology Volume VII

"This Kind of Heartbreak"

(2018)

You can purchase your copy here.

Short Story America Anthology Volume VI

Short Story America Anthology Volume VI

Short Story America Anthology Volume VII

This story is published in this volume.

"Love Me Like You Used To" 

(2017) 

You can purchase a copy here.

Emrys Journal

Short Story America Anthology Volume VI

Dark Fire Fiction

  "The Buck" 

(Volume 29, Spring 2012)

Winner of the Sue Lile Inman Fiction Award  

 


Dark Fire Fiction

Short Story America Anthology Volume VI

Dark Fire Fiction

"Meltdown"

(Issue 54,  Halloween 2011) 

Waccamaw Journal

Mythium: Journal of Contemporary Literature

Mythium: Journal of Contemporary Literature

  "Places Like This"

 (Spring 2011) 


Mythium: Journal of Contemporary Literature

Mythium: Journal of Contemporary Literature

Mythium: Journal of Contemporary Literature

  "The Great Flood" 

(Volume 3, Summer 2011)  

Expecting Goodness & Other Stories

Mythium: Journal of Contemporary Literature

Expecting Goodness & Other Stories

"Girl Talk"  

Stories chosen and edited by C. Michael Curtis, long-time fiction editor of The Atlantic. 

*This book was also a runner-up for best book of      short fiction in North America in the 2010 IPPY Awards and won for Best Film in the 2012 Expecting Good Short Film Festival.

You can purchase a copy here.

The Film - The Widower's Pearls (Adaptation of "Girl Talk")

The Widower's Pearls

Watch the short film based off the short story "Girl Talk," starring Elijah Chester, Madison Nolte, Olivia Chester, Zoe Clarke, Morgan Monnig, and Coty Galloway. Nolte won an award for Best Actress in the performance. 


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