Fiction • Creative Nonfiction • Snark
​​IRENE WESTCOTT
RECOGNITION
• Longlisted, 2016 Hummingbird Flash Fiction Prize, Pulp Literature
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• First Place, Roanoke Review 2011 Fiction Contest
• Nominated for inclusion, Best of the Net 2010
• Third Place, Blue Earth Review Flash Fiction Contest, 2009
• Semi-Finalist, William Van Wert Fiction Award, 2008
• Second Place, First Chapel of a Novel, Alabama Writers Conclave 2008 Literary Competition
• First Place, Baltimore Review Creative Nonfiction Competition, 2007
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• Prairie Center of the Arts - Fall 2012
• Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) – Winter 2009
• Vermont Studio Center – Winter 2008
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RESIDENCIES
​​​​BIO
​Irene Westcott is –– among other things –– a writer, a mother, a klutz, a neatnik, a distracted driver, a compulsive online shopper and a very bad cook. She works as a marketing professional by day and writes fiction whenever she can. She has a B.S. and an M.A. from Northwestern University and lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband, son and two needy cats.​
PUBLICATIONS
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FICTION
• “Harmless,” The Broken City, Summer 2016
• “Wolves,” Roanoke Review, Summer 2011
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• “Rabbit,” The 2nd Hand, December 2009
• “Not One Word,” Blue Earth Review, Spring 2009
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​• “Word Problems,” LITnIMAGE, Autumn 2009​
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​​• “Like a Chance,” Pure Francis, May 31, 2009
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​• “7 a.m.; Billings, Montana,” The Literary Bohemian,
• “Two in the Morning, Two at Night,” Vacations: The Good,
The Bad and The Ugly, anthology, Outrider Press, 2006
• “Drip, Drip,” The Bullfight Review, 2004
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CREATIVE NONFICTION
• “So the Lawyer You Married Wants to Devote His Life
to Perfecting His Roundhouse Kick,” Baltimore Review, 2007
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