Writing

Anne de Marcken’s It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, will be published simultaneously by New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions and Giramondo in March of 2024. 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

  • 2024 – It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over, forthcoming spring of 2024 from New Directions, Fitzcarraldo Editions and Giramondo
  • 2024 – Los Angeles Review (January 2024) “Lamentation 2”
  • 2023 – Permafrost (Spring 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”

* Stories resulting from “After Life” 2005-10. Sustained literary inquiry into how we are altered by loss.

Select Writing Awards & Honors

  • 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

Select Readings & Presentations

  • 2020 – Margin Shift, Seattle, WA Reading from The Accident: An Account 
  • 2020 – Community Print, Olympia, WA Reading from Cannibal, a polyphonic biography of Columbia.
  • 2017 – Salon Refu, Olympia WA Solo reading from Zombie: A Memoir, auto-fictional narrative.
  • 2014 – “Animal/Antidote,” Blindfold Gallery, Seattle, WA Group reading with Stacy Levine, Bhanu Kapil, Doug Nufer, Sarah Dowling and Jennifer Calkins
  • 2013 – “Q.E.D II: Not (Quite) Easily Done,” Les Figues Press & MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA Reading/performance & process presentation with Jennifer Calkins
  • 2011 – TEDx Evergreen, Olympia, WA Speaker, “The Happy (Un)Ending: Climate Change & Narrative”
  • 2006 – Davis Gallery, Sheridan, WY Visiting artist talk, “Process and Image”
  • 2006 – AWP Conference, Austin, TX Panelist/moderator, “Prose in Motion” with John Bresland, Ed Falco, Marilyn Freeman and Philip Graham
  • 2005 – NonfictionNow Conference, Iowa City, IA Panelist, “The Video Essay” with Marilyn Freeman, Ron Sandvik and John Bresland & “Varieties of Collaboration” with Lawrence Suttin, Alma Gottlieb and LeAnne Howe
  • 2003 – Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV Visiting writer
  • 2003 – The Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA Panelist, “Writing the New Screenplay”
  • 2002 – Filmmaker Forum, Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Seattle, WA Panelist, “Women in Film.”