Anne de Marcken’s It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, and the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction was published simultaneously by New Directions (US), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and Giramondo (Australia). Her lyric novella, The Accident: An Account (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020), is a reckoning with the ways language and narrative fail to make sense of the recursive slippages of loss. De Marcken’s short stories, essays, poems and interviews occasionally appear in print or can be heard on the radio.
Publications
- 2025 – Brick (115) “I Have Felt the Air is Fuller”
- 2025 – Elastic (Issue No. 1) “Lamentation 3”
- 2024 – Litt (Issue No. 2) “Between Anything & Anything”
- 2024 – It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, New Directions (US), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and Giramondo (Australia)
- 2024 – Los Angeles Review (January 2024) “Lamentation 2”
- 2023 – Permafrost (Issue 44.2, Winter 2023) “TELL US WHAT THE END IS, Part 1”
- 2020 – The Accident: An Account Spuyten Duyvil
- 2019 – Entropy (July 11, 2019) “The Sea that has Become Known”
- 2019 – Ploughshares (Issue #137) “Foil”
- 2018 – Narrative “The Little One Need Not Come”
- 2018 – Quarter After Eight (Volume 24) “Snapshot”
- 2011 – Glimmer Train (Issue 77) “Best Western”
- 2010 – Southern Indiana Review (Volume 17, 1) “Stray”
- 2010 – Writers Ask (Issue 71) Excerpts, “Writing to the Future: An Interview with Xu Xi”
- 2010 – Glimmer Train (Issue 74) “Writing to the Future: An Interview with Xu Xi”
- 2009 – Evo Girls Guest editor and essayist for the annual print catalogue of experimental media and activist art by the collective, Evolutionary Girls Club
- 2008 – Writers Ask (ongoing) Excerpts, “A Part of One’s Life: An Interview with Shawn Wong”
- 2008 – Selected Shorts, NPR & Symphony Space “Best Western”
- 2007 – Writer’s Chronicle (Volume 40, Number 3) “A Part of One’s Life: An Interview with Shawn Wong”
- 2007 – Best New American Voices 2007 (Harcourt, 2006) “Ashes”
- 2006 – Hunger Mountain (Issue Number 9) “Three Keys”
- 2006 – The Way We Knew It (Vermont College / Union Institute & University, 2006) “Wrap Skirt”
Select Writing Awards & Honors
- The Pacific Northwest Book Award 2025, Winner
- The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2024, Winner
- The Novel Prize 2022, Winner
- Dzanc Novella Prize 2020, Finalist
- Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest (2018) Winner. Carmen Maria Machado, judge
- Narrative Fall Fiction Prize (2017) Finalist
- Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction (2017) Finalist
- Iowa Short Fiction Award (2017) Semi-finalist
- Glimmer Train Fiction Open Award (2013) Finalist
- Mary C. Mohr Short Fiction Award (2010) Winner. Alan Cheuse, judge
- Salem College 2010 International Literary Awards, Fiction (2010) Honorable Mention
- Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction (2010) Finalist
- A Room of Her Own Orlando Prize for Short Fiction (2010) Finalist
- Gulf Coast Fiction Prize (2010) Finalist
- Iowa Short Fiction Award (2009) Semi-finalist
- Cutthroat Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award (2009) Finalist
- Zoetrope: All Story Short Fiction Contest (2009) Honorable Mention. Yiyun Li, judge
- Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award (2009) Second Place
- Glimmer Train Family Matters Fiction Award (2009) Finalist
- Symphony Space Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize (2008) Winner. Amy Hempel, judge
- Nimrod Katherine Anne Porter Prize (2008) Honorable Mention
- Glimmer Train Family Matters Fiction Award (2008) Finalist
- Glimmer Train Fiction Open Award (2007) Finalist
- Nimrod Katherine Anne Porter Prize (2007) Semi-finalist
- Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction (2006) Winner
- Adult Short Fiction Competition, Pacific Northwest Writers Association (1998) Finalist