A sampling. You know. In case you’re interested….
Appearances
- I’m presenting at AWP 2020 in Texassssssssssssssssssss! Whooo!
- Ugggggggggh. I’m NOT speaking at Hippocamp19!
- I’m speaking at Hippocamp19!
- I’m speaking at Hippocamp18! Lancaster, PA, at some point during August 24 – 26, 2018 @ some time that I hope to hell isn’t morning.
- I’m speaking at Hippocamp17! September 10, 2017 @ 8:45–10:00 A.M.
- I’ll be appearing half-dressed and fully disheveled in the bathroom mirror tomorrow morning (A.K.A.: mid-afternoon). Cashme ousside. Howbowdah?
- Reading at the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Mississippi, November 19, 2014
- Reading and Authors’ Panel, Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, GA, August 31, 2014
Publications
Memoir & Personal Essays
- “Serial Killers Among Us: Meditations on the World’s Most Controversial Punctuation Mark,” The Writer, December, 2017
- “Mother” and “The Other ‘F’ Word” (reprint), Gnu Journal, Spring & Summer 2017
- “Mama’s Strawberry Candies,” Blogghetti, April, 2017
- “Tiny Truth,” Creative Nonfiction (Issue #61, Winter 2017); Winner of Daily Tiny Truths Twitter Contest
- “The Math of Marriage,” Creative Nonfiction (Issue #59, Spring 2016); Best Essay Prize, July, 2016; Pushcart Prize nominee
- “The Other F Word,” Hippocampus Magazine theme issue, July, 2015; Semi-finalist, Mark Twain Humor Writing Awards, 2015
- “Honeymoon,” Hippocampus Magazine, January, 2015; Finalist for 2014 Remember in November
- “Porn Star,” Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South & Women Behaving Badly, anthology of nonfiction, 2014
- “Things You Should Never, Ever, Ever Say to Your Children,” Superstition Review, December, 2010
- “At Night,” Sonora Review, June, 2010
- “Aftermath,”Brevity, Issue 32, January, 2010
- Included in US and international curriculum/college creative writing programs
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- Included in US and international curriculum/college creative writing programs
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Human Interest, Personal Profiles, Scholarly Articles
- “Journey to Memoir: Reaching and Retrieving Long-Lost Memories,” The AWP Pedagogy Papers 2010
- “Don’t Open That Door!” Indianapolis Star, October, 2008
- “They’re Baack! Youngsters Descend Upon Zionsville Schools,” Indianapolis Star, August, 2008
- 100+ human interest and personal profile articles, com and The East County Gazette, 2008-2009
Guest Blogs
- “Mama’s Strawberry Candies,” Blogghetti, April, 2017
- “And Now, A Message from the Grammar Police Chief,” Superstition Review, August, 2016
- “Criminally Bad Grammar,” Superstition Review, March, 2015
- “Moving on After Divorce,” Tiny Shifts, March, 2015
- “For the LOVE of the Language,” Superstition Review, July, 2013
- “So You Want to be a Writer,” Superstition Review, March, 2013
- “When You Must Be Brief, But Have So Much to Say…,” Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, February 11, 2010
Fiction
- “The Arcade at Midnight,” Grand Prize, Haunted Waters Press: Penny Fiction, 16 Lovely Words: A Flash-Fiction Writing Competition, March, 2016
- “Murdoch’s Mansion,” First Place, 2014 Halloween Writing Contest, Current
- Something about “Blutarsky’s,” (OMG, can you believe I can’t even remember the title of my own story??) The GNU, Literary Journal of National University, 2010
Interviews
- “We Can Only Navigate with What We Know,” A Conversation with Elane Johnson by Rachel Ann Brickner, Creative Nonfiction, Issue #59
- “An Interview with Author Elane Johnson,” Haunted Waters Press, August 15, 2016
Podcasts
YouTube Presentations
- Interpreting Non-Fiction: “The Math of Marriage” by Elane Johnson, Presentation by Miguel Borje, January 26, 2017
Images, Reviews & Press
Reviews
- Deep South Magazine
- Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review
- The Commercial Appeal, Part of the USA Today Network
- New Pages
- Chapter 16
- Junk Talk: A Community Fix
- Writing from Misty Hill, blog
Images
Press
- New Pages, Spring, 2016
- Poets & Writers Directory
- Most Read in 2016 at Creative Nonfiction
- National University MFA in Creative Writing Program Overview, Notable Graduates
- National University Student/Alumni Success
- SNHU website blurb, Excellence in Teaching Award 2016
- SNHU Insights Magazine Faculty Spotlight
- “A HippoCamp Pre-Orientation, Part I”
- Wikipedia – Creative Nonfiction (magazine)