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John Beckett

News about Melissa Pritchard
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MP has two short fiction pieces forthcoming soon: "Pelagia: Holy Fool," to be published in IMAGE, Art, Faith, Mysteryand "Croquet," due out in Web Conjunctions, the online publication of Conjunctions, Bard College, Bradford Morrow, editor.

MP has been awarded the highly competitive Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, which will allow MP to spend a month’s residency (May 25-June 20, 2008) at the castle in Midlothian, Scotland.

MP has been elected an Executive Board Member of The Daywalka Foundation, an anti-trafficking agency based in Portland, OR., working to end sex trafficking and violence against women and children in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

MP will appear as an invited guest on online literary magazine Fanzine's Talk Show with Jaime Clarke, host. Past guests on Talk Show include Darin Strauss, Antonya Nelson, Rick Moody, Christopher Sorrentino, Hannah Tinti, Julianna Baggott, and Vendela Vida, time tba.

A biography written by MP, Devotedly, Virginia: The Life of Virginia Galvin Piper, will be published May 2008 by the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, see Phoenix Magazine interview.

Click here to learn about Melissa Pritchard's work in India.