Dr. Andrea Witzke Slot is a London-based poet, fiction writer, & essayist.
the latest news!
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My latest short story, inspired by my grandmother and which remained with me privately for many years,
is up at the gorgeously-produced Fictive Dream. Read it here: Proximity.
I very happy to announce that my newest book of poetry The Ministry of Flowers
will be published with the fabulous Valley Press in 2020.
~ book release party plans coming soon ~
In the Poetry Exchange's Latest Podcast, Al Snell and I talk with Alida about a poem that has been a friend to her.
This was a particularly special conversation as Alida talks about the poem 'The Cedar" and how it has been with her
from childhood in the Netherlands to her life now, as an immigrant in the UK, post-Brexit.
Held at London Podcast Festival 2019 at Kings Place, this is a truly inspiring conversation.
Meanwhile, I've been working obsessively on the finishing touches of a manuscript started at Hawthornden Castle in March, 2019. Bean-spilling imminent.
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Please get in touch!
the latest news!
~
My latest short story, inspired by my grandmother and which remained with me privately for many years,
is up at the gorgeously-produced Fictive Dream. Read it here: Proximity.
I very happy to announce that my newest book of poetry The Ministry of Flowers
will be published with the fabulous Valley Press in 2020.
~ book release party plans coming soon ~
In the Poetry Exchange's Latest Podcast, Al Snell and I talk with Alida about a poem that has been a friend to her.
This was a particularly special conversation as Alida talks about the poem 'The Cedar" and how it has been with her
from childhood in the Netherlands to her life now, as an immigrant in the UK, post-Brexit.
Held at London Podcast Festival 2019 at Kings Place, this is a truly inspiring conversation.
Meanwhile, I've been working obsessively on the finishing touches of a manuscript started at Hawthornden Castle in March, 2019. Bean-spilling imminent.
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Andrea Witzke Slot writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and particular enjoys creating work that plays with boundaries of genre and form. Her first poetry collection To find a new beauty (Gold Wake Press 2012) is inspired by H.D.'s sea garden poems in both title and form, while her second The Ministry of Flowers (Valley Press 2020) explores love, addiction, forgiveness, and ministry through a small poem of Emily Dickinson's.
She’s won fiction prizes with Fiction International and Able Muse, and has been a finalist in over a dozen competitions, including A room of Her Own's Clarissa Dalloway Prize for her first (unpublished) novel manuscript. Her winning pieces have been described by the judges Eugenia Kim as having “a rare and satisfying command of storytelling” and by Harold Jaffe as “meld[ing] compression, humor, keen intelligence, and social awareness in a savoury 300 words.” Recent poetry and fiction can be found (or is forthcoming) in such US and UK journals as Amaryllis, Ambit, Acumen, American Literary Review, Compass Magazine, Fictive Dream and Stand Magazine. She's published non-fiction pieces inThe Chronicle of Higher Education and Translation Review and has a quirky philosophical piece at Queen Mob's Teahouse. Her academic work on poetry, dialogism and social change can be found in anthologies published with SUNY Press and Palgrave Macmillan.
After teaching for many years (primary school in the UK and at the University of Illinois at Chicago after earning her PhD), Andrea now writes full time and is a contributing artist with Fiona Lesley's Poetry Exchange, silver award winner for most original podcast in the 2018 British Podcast Awards. An American expat and permanent resident of the UK, Andrea lives in London but visits Chicago regularly.
She’s won fiction prizes with Fiction International and Able Muse, and has been a finalist in over a dozen competitions, including A room of Her Own's Clarissa Dalloway Prize for her first (unpublished) novel manuscript. Her winning pieces have been described by the judges Eugenia Kim as having “a rare and satisfying command of storytelling” and by Harold Jaffe as “meld[ing] compression, humor, keen intelligence, and social awareness in a savoury 300 words.” Recent poetry and fiction can be found (or is forthcoming) in such US and UK journals as Amaryllis, Ambit, Acumen, American Literary Review, Compass Magazine, Fictive Dream and Stand Magazine. She's published non-fiction pieces inThe Chronicle of Higher Education and Translation Review and has a quirky philosophical piece at Queen Mob's Teahouse. Her academic work on poetry, dialogism and social change can be found in anthologies published with SUNY Press and Palgrave Macmillan.
After teaching for many years (primary school in the UK and at the University of Illinois at Chicago after earning her PhD), Andrea now writes full time and is a contributing artist with Fiona Lesley's Poetry Exchange, silver award winner for most original podcast in the 2018 British Podcast Awards. An American expat and permanent resident of the UK, Andrea lives in London but visits Chicago regularly.
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selected poetry:
Compass Magazine, The American Literary Review, Acumen (1), Acumen (2), Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, Amaryllis (written on the morning of the Grenfell Tower tragedy), Rappahannock Review (1), Rappahannock Review (2), Kettle Blue Review, All We Can Hold: poems of motherhood, Perine's Fountain (1), Perine's Fountain (2), Ambit, Kudzu House, , Lunch Ticket, Mezzo Cammin, Lascaux Review (nominated for a Pushcart) Tupelo Quarterly (3), Nimrod, Verse Daily (nominated for a Pushcart) Segue Online Literary Review (listen here), The Inflectionist Review (nominated for a Pushcart), Tupelo Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, Meridian and Connotation Press
selected fiction:
Fictive Dream, Litro (UK), Litro (NY), Able Muse (video here), Fiction Southeast (audio here), Fiction International,
The Adirondack Review, Queen Mob's Teahouse and Mid-American Review
nonfiction/academic:
'Dialogic Poetry and the work of Harryette Mullen' from Poetry and Dialogism: Hearing Over, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014/Editors' intro here), 'Dialogic Poetry and the work of Julia Alvarez' from Inhabiting "'La Patria': Identity, Agency, and Antojo" in the Work of Julia Alvarez, SUNY Press 2013/Editors' intro here.), H.L. Hix's Progressive Poetics Project, The Chronicle of Higher Education (1) The Chronicle of Higher Education (2)
interviews:
Mid-American Review and Rappahannock Review
poetry exchange podcasts:
here
selected poetry:
Compass Magazine, The American Literary Review, Acumen (1), Acumen (2), Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, Amaryllis (written on the morning of the Grenfell Tower tragedy), Rappahannock Review (1), Rappahannock Review (2), Kettle Blue Review, All We Can Hold: poems of motherhood, Perine's Fountain (1), Perine's Fountain (2), Ambit, Kudzu House, , Lunch Ticket, Mezzo Cammin, Lascaux Review (nominated for a Pushcart) Tupelo Quarterly (3), Nimrod, Verse Daily (nominated for a Pushcart) Segue Online Literary Review (listen here), The Inflectionist Review (nominated for a Pushcart), Tupelo Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, Meridian and Connotation Press
selected fiction:
Fictive Dream, Litro (UK), Litro (NY), Able Muse (video here), Fiction Southeast (audio here), Fiction International,
The Adirondack Review, Queen Mob's Teahouse and Mid-American Review
nonfiction/academic:
'Dialogic Poetry and the work of Harryette Mullen' from Poetry and Dialogism: Hearing Over, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014/Editors' intro here), 'Dialogic Poetry and the work of Julia Alvarez' from Inhabiting "'La Patria': Identity, Agency, and Antojo" in the Work of Julia Alvarez, SUNY Press 2013/Editors' intro here.), H.L. Hix's Progressive Poetics Project, The Chronicle of Higher Education (1) The Chronicle of Higher Education (2)
interviews:
Mid-American Review and Rappahannock Review
poetry exchange podcasts:
here
