PUBLICATIONS & FEATURES
Publications
2019
"Post-Divorce: A Spell" Moonchild Magazine — July 2019
2018
"Wild" 3 Micros at The Offing—October 2018
Memory Experiment "Manipulate: 2" FIVE:2:ONE— August 2018
"2 Blueprints" Heavy Feather Review— July 2018
"I'll Eat Later" Glass: A Journal of Poetry— April 2018
"1-2-3, DRINK" Memoir Mixtapes— February 2018
"Beyoncé collage" Dream Pop Press— February 2018
"Ribs" Glass: A Journal of Poetry—January 2018
2017
“The Trauma of Whiskey” (B)oink Magazine—
“[i miscarried a watermelon]” The Shallow Ends—
"17/27" Best of Year Three Anthology with Crab Fat Magazine—
Work in A Shadow Map, a Sexual Assault Survivor Anthology from Civil Coping Mechanisms Press—
2016
“Memory Blueprints- grandpa” Ghost Proposal—
“A Procedure” Tinderbox Poetry—
“Tick Tock” and “17/27” Crab Fat Magazine—
“Misc. Beyoncé Poems” The Fem Literary Magazine—
“Matrimony in Four Parts” Punctuate Magazine—
2015
“Troubled Grounds” Creative Colloquy Volume 2
“Seasons” Thriving & Surviving: a PNW Anthology
“Divisions” AU: Speculative Fiction
“Something Old Something New” Creative Colloquy
Features
National Poetry Month Featured Poet at The Tattooed Poets Project, April 2019
Featured Writer in Poets & Writers Magazine "How to Write" Series, March 2019 (Print only)
Featured writer in the 2019 Artist Trust "Fund the Artists" video, April 2019
Nicole McCarthy Selected as a 2018 GAP Award Recipient from Artist Trust, October 2018
BAX review featured on rob mclennan's blog, September 2018
Best American Experimental Writing @ Open Books Review, August 2018
"Do You Ever Imagine Your Life as a Peach?" feature on The Poetry Pharmacy, March 2018
My (Small Press) Writing Day feature on rob mclennan's blog, March 2018
Etch to Their Own Newsletter "End of 2017 Wrap Up", December 2017
Maudlin House “Writers of the Week”, Fall 2017
Sundress Publications “Weekly Writing Round-Up”, Fall 2017
Etch To Their Own Newsletter, Summer 2017
University of Washington Bothell MFA news, Spring 2017
BIO
Recently Longlisted for the Tarpaulin Sky Press Book Award!
Nicole McCarthy is an experimental writer|poet|artist from the pacific northwest.
She earned her MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics from the University of Washington Bothell. She was the managing editor for the online literary journal, The James Franco Review, a project focused on promoting visibility for underrepresented writers & narratives.
Her work has been performed and encountered through installation pieces throughout Seattle & Tacoma.
Her written & visual pieces have appeared in or are forthcoming in: Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Offing, Redivider, The Shallow Ends, Dream Pop Press, Memoir Mixtapes, (b)oink, Punctuate. a Nonfiction Magazine, The Fem Lit Journal, FLAPPERHOUSE, Tinderbox Poetry, Ghost Proposal, Crab Fat Magazine, Civil Coping Mechanism's A Shadow Map anthology, and the 2018 Best American Experimental Writing anthology from Wesleyan University Press. She is a 2018 GAP grant recipient from Artist Trust.
She recently finished her first hybrid collection and will begin her second this winter, with support from Artist Trust and Alma Mater.
UPCOMING EVENTS
PAST EVENTS
10/8/19 -- DIVORCE: A Performance Sponsored by Artist Trust, Stimson-Green Mansion, Seattle
9/20/19 -- &Now Innovative Writing Festival, University of Washington Bothell, WA
4/24/19 -- Pacifica Literary Review, Capitol Cider, Seattle.
3/29/19 -- Tarpaulin Sky & Lettered Streets Press AWP Off-Site reading with Piper J Daniels, Portland.
1/17/19 -- Margin Shift, Common Area Maintenance, Seattle.
8/25/18 -- Best American Experimental Writing Anthology Release & Reading with Sarah Dowling + Don Mee Choi. Open Books, Seattle.
8/20/18 -- Featured Reader at Creative Colloquy. Alma Mater, Tacoma.
7/31/18 -- Featured Reader at Literary Happy Hour. Capitol Cider, Seattle.
5/27/18 -- Red May reading. Vermillion, Seattle.
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