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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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- Last Night’s Reading | Meakin Armstrong on Reading: Freerange Nonfiction, May 5th
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Tag Archives: Fiction
Reading: Happy Ending, Feb. 11th
Thursday, 8:00 pm. Happy Ending, at 302 Broome St., between Forsyth and Eldridge. It’s free. Happy Ending is a great bar with an interesting history: it used to be a “massage” parlor (hence the name). They’ve kept the exterior and … Continue reading
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Reading: Tandem Readings, January 17th
Looks like I’m taking part in Tandem Readings’ monthly reading series at CELL THEATRE on the 17th. It’ll be with some great people: Irina Reyn, I introduced at a PEN World Voices event that Guernica sponsored a while back, and … Continue reading
New in elimae: A Microfiction Piece
I’m so happy to be in elimae! I remember that site from years and years ago, before I even thought of writing anything but screenplays. They’ve since outlasted legions of literary sites by years. I mean YEARS. (They were founded … Continue reading
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Reading: Old Made, Nov 11th
I’ll be reading at Old Made in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on November 11th at 441 Metropolitan Avenue, along with Catherine Foulkrod, Meghan Punschke, and Matthew Thorburn. It’s going to be a new short story I’ve finally finished.
My reading last night
I thought the reading went well. Packed house. Read a story that’s unpublished, “A Big Big Love.” Now to send it out. . .
InDigest / (Le) Poisson Rouge: Febuary 4th Reading
I’ll be reading with Erica Wright at (Le) Poisson Rouge, the great new venue located inside the old Village Vanguard. It’s for the magazine, InDigest. More info HERE and HERE Details: 02.04.09 (Le) Poisson Rouge New York, NY 6pm doors … Continue reading
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
Swee__t
The sweeties at Sweee_ _t magazine will be publishing a story of mine soon. It’s the most upbeat thing I’ve ever written. That alone makes the piece a rarity.
