Sarah Shotland

• 2018 Equal Justice Resident. Santa Fe Art Institute
• 2016 Proximity Magazine Personal Essay Prize
• 2016 Sedona Summer Arts Colony Residency
• 2015 Eben Demarest Trust Award Nominee
• 2015 Small Arts Initiative Grantee, Heinz Foundations
• 2014 Eben Demarest Trust Award Nominee
• 2014 Carol R. Brown Artistic Achievement Nominee
• 2014 Flight School Fellowship/PCA+PF
• 2013 Artist-in-Residence, miR Theater

ORGANIZATIONS

• AWP
• National Council of Higher Education in Prisons

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Junkette (White Gorilla Press). 2014.
• Words Without Walls: Writers on Addiction, Violence and Incarceration. (Trinity University Press) Co-editor, with Sheryl St. Germain.
• What We Wear to Prison. Baltimore Review.
• On Visiting Prison Again. Proximity.
• The Patron Saint of Loneliness. HOBART.
• Shout, Sister, Shout: Embodied Pedagogy in the Creative Writing Classroom
• A Priest Walks Into a Bar: The Case for Humor in the Addiction Memoir. Creative Nonfiction. (Forthcoming.)
• This is How They Disappear. Lunch Ticket.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

• "Prison Abolition and Cultural Abundance," SFAI 140. Santa Fe, New Mexico. 2018.
• "The Collaborative MFA" The Future of Creative Writing Symposium. 2019.
• "The Power of the Maenads." National Association of Poetry Therapy. Minneapolis, MN. 2018.
• "The Ethics of Writing With and About the Incarcerated." Nonfiction NOW Conference. Pheonix, AZ. 2018.
• "The Power of the Maenads." National Association of Poetry Therapy. Minneapolis, MN. 2018.
• "Working With Those Who Have Hurt Others" National Association of Prison Education Conference. Dallas, Texas. 2017.
• "Creative Writing & Addiction." Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Washington, D.C. 2017.
• "Writers on Addiction, Incarceration, and Violence." Louisiana Festival of the Book. Baton Rouge, LA. 2017.
• "Writing Through the Walls," National Association of Higher Education in Prisons Conference. Urbana, IL. 2015.
• "Many Americas: The Importance of Regional Writing" North American Review Conference. 2015.
• "Writing in Prison, Prison in Writing." Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Minneapolis, MN. 2015.
• "The Language of Mass Incarceration" National Symposium on Higher Education in Prison. Urbana, IL. 2013.
• "Writing the Mask: Gender and Persona in Creative Writing." Hands On Literary Festival. New Orleans, LA. 2013.
• "Authority and Freedom in the Creative Writing Classroom," Hands On Literary Festival. New Orleans, LA. 2013.
• "Creating a Cohesive Multi-Genre Creative Writing Course" Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Washington, D.C. 2012.
• "Minefield: Embracing Creative Play in the Creative Writing Classroom" Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Denver, CO. 2011.