Whitney Collins - Carnegie Center

Whitney Collins is the author of BIG BAD (Sarabande Books, 2021), which won the 2019 Mary McCarthy Prize, a 2022 IPPY Gold Medal, and a 2021 INDIES Bronze Medal. She is the recipient of a 2020 Pushcart Prize, a 2020 Pushcart Special Mention, and won the 2020 American Short(er) FictionPrize and Grist’s 2021 ProForma Contest. Her second collection, RICKY & OTHER LOVE STORIES, is forthcoming with Sarabande in January 2024. Whitney’s fiction has appeared in AGNI, Gulf Coast, American Short Fiction, and Best Small Fiction 2022, among others. She specializes in short stories that have a literary and magic realism bent.

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The Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community learning and literary arts center with local, state, and national awards for programming excellence. The Center offers seasonal classes in writing, publishing, and languages; tutoring for students grades K-12; vibrant youth and family programs and exhibits; outreach programs for children and adults; readings from established authors and local literary icons; and other programs and events designed to encourage people to explore and express their voices through imaginative learning and the literary arts.

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The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning's mission is to empower people to explore and express their voices through imaginative learning and the literary arts.