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I'm a fiction writer, fiction editor, former staffer at The New Yorker, Forbes Inc, and New York Times Custom Publishing. My editorial work has appeared in a variety of magazines (all of the way from Maxim to Good Housekeeping). My copy writing has been featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Condé Nast Traveler.
I am the recipient of scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (a difficult award to get) and Summer Literary Seminars in Russia.
I've been anthologized in four times. My nonfiction has been praised in The New York Times. My work as an editor was lauded in Esquire.
I have an MFA from Columbia University and a screenplay of mine was once optioned by a major film production company.
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Category Archives: Short Story by Meakin Armstrong
Reading: Naked Angels, Jan 13th
I’m doing a reading at Naked Angels this coming Tuesday at 9. It’s a short story about love and so on. I doubt I’ll be reading it anywhere else. It’s going to be a one-time thing.
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Cornelia Street Cafe: Reading Tomorrow, December 16th
I’m doing a reading on the 16th at Cornelia Street Cafe along with Thaddeus Rutkowski and Alison Summers. From the Cornelia Street PR: Meakin Armstrong will read his short story “Gigantic” Meakin Armstrong is a screenwriter, magazine editor, fiction editor … Continue reading
Mr. Beller is having problems with his neighborhood
My story–and a lot of other stories, too–won’t launch. Sure hope it gets fixed, soon…
InDigest fiction
The fine folks at Indigestmag.com have put up a short story of mine, The Missing Years. It’s from a novel I’ve been working on. The story is an early draft. It’s so good to read something from the novel. At … Continue reading
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“Desires” A Reading at the Cornelia Street Cafe
Last night’s reading at Happy Ending was great, but it’s on to a new one this coming Tuesday: DESIRES: A READING AT The Cornelia Street Café Tuesday, February 19th, 6:00 PM 29 Cornelia Street 212-989-9319 It’s a great little place … Continue reading
A Bread Loaf Waiter’s Life for Me
I’d hoped to blog a bit from Bread Loaf. I’d hoped to document the “waitership” experience. No go. Too much is going on and too much to comment upon. But I have got to say: except for Dave Koch’s account … Continue reading
Waiting tables at Bread Loaf, 2007
It just doesn’t have a ring to it–hey, I’m going to Bread Loaf! I’m going to be a waiter! Usual Response: Uh, cool. You’re waiting tables at a bakery? Me: That’s the name of the mountain! It’s a writers’ conference! … Continue reading
The background blah-blah
I’m a writer. But: I’ve erased everything that was here because I found it so appalling. I’ve never kept a diary (on a regular basis, that is) for the same reason. I have had just about all I can take … Continue reading
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