Meaghan Mulholland's stories and articles have appeared in Playboy, The Colorado Review, Five Chapters, National Geographic Traveler and Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine,
among other publications. Her writing awards include a Creative Writing Fulbright
Fellowship to Italy, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and first prize in Playboy's 2010 College Fiction Contest. She has a MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Arkansas. Her current novel is the story of two estranged brothers who are reunited in Sicily when a catastrophe threatens their family's theater.
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News: 04/09/12 -- I've been offered a summer residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Hoping to use this gift of time and creative space to put the finishing touches on the final revision of what I've come to call my "Sicily novel."
News: 04/09/12 -- I'm honored to have a new story, "Only Small Things," forthcoming in the May issue of Meridian.
News: 04/09/12 -- I'm honored to have a new poem, "Novitiate," forthcoming in the Fall/Winter issue of Post Road.
News: 06/20/11 -- New story in Five Chapters this week!
News: 06/09/11 -- This fall I will be the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. The residency promises to be an inspiring and challenging experience, and I am very much looking forward to it. To learn more about this amazing Colony, which in its hundred-year-history has supported the work of thousands of artists, click here.
News: 05/31/11 -- Just learned I was awarded a "waitership" at this summer's Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. This recent piece in the Huffington Post by former BL waiter Ru Freeman has gotten me excited...
News: 09/08/10 -- I'm thrilled to announce that my short story "Woman, Fire and the Sea" will appear in the October issue of Playboy as winner of their 2010 College Fiction Contest. The magazine has a long tradition of publishing great fiction, from writers like Nabokov, Marquez, Updike, Vonnegut, Denis Johnson...The issue hits the newsstands September 17th.
News: 09/08/10 -- I've entered the Twitterverse, where I hope to be able to share links to other writers, writing sites, books and articles...and other stuff, too. Follow me as "Meagho" on twitter.