Angela Townsend

Creative Nonfiction Writer

Author's Bio

Angela Townsend is Development Director at Tabby’s Place: a Cat Sanctuary, where she bears witness to mercy for all beings. She has an M.Div. from Princeton Seminary and B.A. from Vassar College.

Angie has lived with Type 1 diabetes for 33 years, laughs with her poet mother every morning, and delights in the moon. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with two shaggy seraphs disguised as cats.

Angie loves life dearly.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Hitting the Dead End (Poets' Choice Publishing, 2023)
,
The Power of Hope (Wingless Dreamer, 2023)
,
Vol. 7, Books (Truth Serum Press, 2023)
Journals:
Across the Margin
,
Agape Review
,
Alternate Route
,
Amethyst Review
,
Apricity Magazine
,
Arts & Letters
,
Bacopa Literary Review
,
Barnstorm Journal
,
Barzakh
,
Big Windows Review
,
bioStories
,
Bitchin' Kitsch
,
Black Fork Review
,
Bluebird Word
,
Book of Matches
,
Braided Way
,
Bridge Eight Literary Magazine
,
Bright Flash Literary Review
,
Broadkill Review
,
Cagibi
,
Caustic Frolic
,
Chaotic Merge Magazine
,
Chautauqua
,
Cicada
,
Clackamas Literary Review
,
Clockhouse
,
Cutbank
,
Dappled Things
,
Deep Overstock
,
Discretionary Love
,
Dreamers Creative Writing
,
Echolocation
,
Every Writer
,
Exacting Clam
,
Fatal Flaw
,
Fathom
,
Feminine Collective
,
Flapper Press
,
Freshwater
,
Gastropoda
,
Glassworks Magazine
,
Halfway Down the Stairs
,
Hawaii Pacific Review
,
Heart of Flesh Literary Journal
,
Heimat Review
,
Identity Theory
,
Ignatian Literary Magazine
,
In Parentheses
,
Invisible City
,
Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
,
Lake Effect
,
LandLocked
,
Leon Literary Review
,
Ligeia Magazine
,
Litro Magazine
,
Los Angeles Press
,
Lothlorien Poetry Journal
,
MacQueen’s Quinterly
,
Manifest-Station
,
Many Nice Donkeys
,
Marrow Magazine
,
Masque & Spectacle
,
McNeese Review
,
Metonym Literary Journal
,
Mikrokosmos
,
Miniskirt Magazine
,
MockingOwl Roost
,
Moria
,
Moss Piglet
,
New World Writing
,
NOVUS Literary and Arts Journal
,
October Hill Magazine
,
Oddball Magazine
,
Open Ceilings
,
Open: Journal of Arts & Letters
,
Orange Blossom Review
,
Other Journal
,
Ovunque Siamo
,
Paddler Press
,
Panoply
,
Paris Lit Up
,
Penn Review
,
Pleiades
,
Porridge Magazine
,
Rathalla Review
,
Razor
,
ROPES
,
Sangam Literary Magazine
,
Schuylkill Valley Journal
,
SLAB
,
Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine
,
SORTES
,
Spellbinder
,
Spirit Fire Review
,
Still Point Arts Quarterly
,
Stoneboat
,
Streetlight Magazine
,
Swing
,
Talon Review
,
Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments
,
The Bookends Review
,
The Mindful Word
,
the museum of americana
,
The Smart Set
,
Thimble Literary Magazine
,
Third Wednesday
,
Umbrella Factory Magazine
,
Valiant Scribe Literary Journal
,
Vermillion
,
Westchester Review
,
White Wall Review
,
Willows Wept Review
,
Wordgathering
,
WORDPEACE
,
Writing Disorder
,
Writing in a Woman's Voice
,
Yellow Arrow Journal
,
Young Ravens Literary Review
Prizes won: 

Nominee, 2023 Best Spiritual Literature
First Place, 2023 Honeyguide "Black Cats are Good Luck" Story Contest
Second Place, 2023 Northwind Writing Award, Fiction
Fifth Place, 2023 Writer's Digest Annual Writing Competition, Inspirational/Spiritual
October 2023 Moon Prize, Writing in a Woman's Voice

 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Anne Lamott, Brian Doyle, Madeleine L'Engle, Henri Nouwen, Kathleen Norris, Dave Barry, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Emily Dickinson, Mary Oliver, John O'Donohue
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Last update: May 01, 2024