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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: japan
In Chiba, outside of Tokyo
America is so boring. Been listening to this while riding the monorail in Chiba.
Out of touch
PEN World voices was great: saw lots of writers I knew (and published in Guernica) and lots I’d never heard of and now hope to know and publish. But now, I’m heading out of town… Off to Japan on a … Continue reading
An article I wrote is up on Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood
A piece I wrote when I was at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference last year is up on Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. I love that site; I think it’s one of the best on the Web. It’s dedicated to stories that … Continue reading
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Tagged Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, By Meakin Armstrong, gaijin, Growing up in Japan, japan, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, writing
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I smell children. . . (I’ve always loved this guy)
Those kids, it has always seemed to me, were damned insipid. They deserved everything they got. I remember thinking that when I was about six. They risked death for a lollipop. Stupid kids.I sighed through “Hushabye Mountain.” Still do. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Dark side of the rainbow, japan, movies, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, the child catcher, writing
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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
Posted in Blog, Copywriting, Editing, Fiction, Fiction Editor, Guernica, New Clips, Public Reading, Short Story by Meakin Armstrong, Writing, Writing Samples
Tagged "bread loaf waiter", Bread Loaf, Breadloaf, Columbia Film School, Cornelia Street, Guernica Magazine, japan, Maxim, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, Noo Journal, Public Reading, SLS, Summer Literary Seminars, The Atlantic, waitership
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