Maria S. Picone

Maria S. Picone—수영—(she/her/hers) has three forthcoming chapbooks, Anti Asian Bias (Game Over Books), Adoptee Song (Game Over Books), and Propulsion (Conium). Maria is the recipient of an Emerging Artist Grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission. She won Cream City Review’s Summer 2020 Poetry Prize and Salamander’s Louisa Solano Memorial Emerging Poet Award. Her work has been supported by Lighthouse Writers, GrubStreet, VONA, Kenyon Review, The Watering Hole, Tin House, and Juniper. She attended a residency at Hambidge in 2022 as a Leadership in the Arts Distinguished Fellow. She is the managing editor of Chestnut Review and edits at Uncharted Mag, Foglifter, and The Seventh Wave. Maria was selected for Best Small Fictions 2021. She holds MFA in fiction from Goddard College and degrees from Princeton, Rice, and Western New Mexico University. She is an alumna of GrubStreet’s Novel Generator and is working on her first novel and a poetry collection.

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The Speculative-Literary Connection: Writing and Publishing Across Markets

May 20, 2022 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

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Panelists: Jeff Somers, Maria S. Picone, Andrew Kelly Stewart and Victor Manibo (moderator)
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What is the benefit of reading, submitting to, and publishing in literary markets as a speculative writer and vice versa? What are some markets that are blending genres? What are some popular ways to incorporate weirdness into literary writing? When is a story too speculative or not speculative enough? In this panel, cross-genre writers and editors will address these questions and more!

Neurodiversity and Writing: There’s No One Correct Way to Write

May 13, 2023 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

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Panelists: Vida Cruz-Borja, Maria S. Picone, Clara Ward, Katherine Crighton and Jason Sanford (moderator)
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Neurodiverse authors have always been around. However, some of the most famous writing advice out there — such as put your butt in a chair and write, or write 1000 words a day — can actually be harmful to or counterproductive for neurodiverse writers. In this panel, a group of neurodiverse authors will share writing advice that works for them and may also work for other writers who are autistic, have ADHD, anxiety, dyslexia, bipolar disorder, or other diverse ways of experiencing the world.

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