Laura Sweeney

Poet

Bloomington , IL

Illinois US

Email:

lauraswny@hotmail.com

Website:

lauraswny.journoportfolio.com/

Author's 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 sixty plus journals, and sixteen anthologies, in the States, Canada, Britain, Indonesia, and China. Her recent awards include a scholarship to the Sewanee Writer's Conference. In 2021, she received an Editor's Prize in Flash Discourse from Open: Journal of Arts & Letters; Poetry Society of Michigan's Barbara Sykes Memorial Humor Award; and two of her poems appear in the anthology Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism, an Indie Book Awards finalist. 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.

Education:

Southern Illinois University Carbondale MFA

Writers Retreats:

Sewanee Writers’ Conference

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

International Women's Day (Moonstone Press, 2024)

Traitor/Patriot: Reflections on January 6, 2021 (Moonstone Press, 2024)

World Poetry Day (Moonstone Press, 2024)

S/He Speaks: Voices of Women & Trans Folx (Moonstone Press, 2023)

Salvaged (Wordrunner eChapbooks, 2023)

Which Side Are You On (Moonstone Press, 2023)

We've Always Done It! (Alternating Current Press, 2022)

Last Call: The anthology of beer, wine, & spirits poetry (Concrete Wolf, 2018)

Devices (Wordrunner eChapbooks, 2016)

In the Words of Womyn International (Yellow Chair Press, 2016)

It's About Time (Main Street Rag, 2016)

Nuclear Impact Anthology: Broken atoms in our hands (Shabda Press, 2016)

The Body in D(ist)ress (Negative Capability Press, 2015)

Farmscape: The changing rural environment (Ice Cube Press, LLC, 2012)

Journals:

Adanna

Appalachia

Barely South Review

Broad!

Canadian Woman Studies/ les cahiers de la femme

Common Ground Review

Constellations

Descant

Door is a Jar Magazine

Evening Street Review

Fiction Southeast

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies

Good Men Project

Harpur Palate

Hawaii Pacific Review

Hedge Apple

I-70 Review

Impost: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work

IthacaLit

The Journal

Journal of Poetry Therapy

Lyrical Iowa

The Main Street Rag

Marathon Literary Review

Midwest Quarterly

North Dakota Quarterly

One Sentence Poems

Open Minds Quarterly

Open: Journal of Arts & Letters

Peninsula Poets

Pilgrimage Magazine

Plainsongs

Poetica Magazine

Poetry South

Potomac Review

Qwerty

Red Savina Review

Rock & Sling

Saint Katherine Review

Streetcake Magazine

The Daily Palette

Tipton Poetry Journal

Toasted Cheese

Whale Road Review

Women's Studies Quarterly

Wordgathering

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

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Born in:

Estherville, IA

Iowa

Raised in:

Iowa

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Last update: Mar 17, 2024