Author Reading for South Florida Poetry Journal Nov. Issue Release Party. November 17, 2023
Abby will read her piece from the issue. |
Best of the Net 2024 Nomination
"Morning Love Song (Pianissimo)" in MoonPark Review Check out the original story here. "In the red Bialetti stovetop pot we bought years ago to recall a trip to Rome, you boil the espresso. Across the tiled floor, I Cuisinart the milk into froth." |
Best of the Net 2024 Nomination
"The Toss" in trampset Check out the original story here. "Jake tosses the baby into the air like a pizza — not violently, not angrily like Naomi always accuses him of being. He tosses the baby like the lightness of dough aloft, like a meal of your own making when the spray of flour coats your hands and cheeks — just like he and Naomi did when they were kids and it was Cooking Night at the Cantors’: that’s what his mother called it." |
Author Reading at the Vancouver Public Library
Hosted by Writer in Residence Lindsay Wong July 15th, 2021 at 5pm PST on Zoom (email [email protected] for the link) Abby will read from her recent short fiction. |
Writing Panel participant at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
June 29, 2019 at 1:30pm at the University of California, Davis Abby will discuss the writing approach for her work-in-progress. She will specifically discuss her research and writing about the Centralia, Pennsylvania underground coal fire. |
Creative Nonfiction Writing with Abby Manzella
Oct. 6, 2018 at 5:30 at Kennedy Library in Muncie, Indiana
Abby will talk about her experiences as a creative nonfiction writer, specifically addressing her work during her residency at PlySpace in Muncie. She will discus the creative and the research process from ideas to execution as well as read from her work-in-progress.
PlySpace Artist-in-Residence fall 2018 While in residence, Abby will work on her creative nonfiction book. She will lecture at Ball State University and the David Owsley Museum of Art, curate an exhibition on fire using the Ball Family archives at Minnestrista, and give a reading from her work-in-progress at the Muncie Public Library. |