Meaghan Mulholland

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Meaghan Mulholland is a writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Playboy, The Colorado Review, National Geographic Traveler, Washington Flyer, and Southwest Airlines' Spirit Magazine, among other publications. Her awards include a Creative Writing Fulbright Fellowship to Italy and first prize in Playboy's 2010 College Fiction Contest, along with top rankings in several other fiction contests. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas. She recently completed a novel, set in Sicily, about a puppeteer whose struggle to save his family's theater is complicated by the arrival of an estranged niece from America. 

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News:  02/28/10 -- I was named one of about twelve Finalists for the 2010 Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia -- which this year was awarded to Australian poet Emma Jones. The residency seems like an amazing opportunity, and I'm honored to have been considered for it.  

News: 
01/26/10 -- My short fiction story "Of Time and Wind" appears in the January issue of an exciting new online journal, /One/. Check it out.


News: 
04/23/09 -- I've been selected as winner of this year's Coughlin-Lawrence Fiction Fellowship for the Solstice Summer Writers Conference, to be held in Chestnut Hill, MA this June. The scholarship covers
full tuition, room and board. I'm looking forward to heading back to my old stomping grounds near BC, and to working with some very talented writers.

News: 11/22/08 -- I've been selected as a Top Ten finalist in Zoetrope: All-Story's 2008 short fiction contest, judged by Elizabeth McCracken. The winners and seven finalists "will be considered for representation by the William Morris Agency, ICM, Regal Literary, the Elaine Markson Literary Agency, Inkwell Management, Sterling Lord Literistic, and the Georges Borchardt Literary Agency." 

News: My short fiction story, "Immersion Program," appears in the Fall 2008 issue of the Colorado Review.  "Immersion Program" was a Top Ten finalist for the 2008 Nelligan Prize for short fiction, and also chosen as Runner-up in both the 2007 Indiana Review fiction contest and the 2007 Bellingham Review fiction contest.