Meghan Sterling

Writing and Workshops

Awards and Honors


Pushcart nomination, Self-Portrait as Half-Jew Jew Celebrating Hanukkah, from Minyan Magazine. December, 2023

Pushcart nomination, Loon Stabs Bald Eagle through the Heart the Same Week George Floyd is Murdered, from Lily Poetry Press, December 2023.

Pushcart prize nomination, My Grandfather Wouldn’t Speak About the Old Country, from Fine Print Journal, December 2022.

Lily Poetry Review’s Paul Nemser Book Prize for View From a Borrowed Field (To be published, March, 2023)

Eric Hoffer 2022 Da Vinci Eye Finalist, First Horizon Finalist, and Grand Prize Short List, These Few Seeds (Terrapin Books, 2021)

Pushcart Prize nomination, After a Diagnosis of Postpartum Mood Disorder, 2021

Pushcart Prize nomination, The Way Back Was Always Slower, Mockingheart Review, 2021

Pushcart Prize Nomination, Apology After the Fire, Terrapin Books, 2021

Pushcart Prize Nomination, NSSI, SWWIM, 2021

Winner of the 2021 Sweet Lit Poetry Contest, Before School There Are Icicles

Winner of the 2021 Equinox Poetry Contest, Silverback

Winner of the 2021 West Trestle Review Poetry Contest

“Best of the Net” Nomination for Pyrocumulonimbus, Rise Up Review (September 2021)

Finalist, 2021 Sweet Lit Poetry Contest, A Walk After Being Let Go

Finalist, 2021 River Heron Review Poetry Contest, After a Diagnosis of Postpartum Mood Disorder

Hewnoaks Artist Colony Residency June 2021

Black Fly Writers Retreat Dibner Fellowship May 2020

“Best of the Net” Nomination for Powerless in Frost Meadow Review (March 2020)

Henoaks Artist Colony Residency September 2019