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Winner of the
Nancy Ludmerer Fellowship for Flash Nonfiction Porches Writing Retreat A residency in Norwood, Virginia to work on her memoir-in-flash |
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European Writers Salon July 15, 2025 noon CST Zoom Abby will read from her recent short fiction |
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NYU School of Law
Journal of International Law and Politics (JILP) 2025 Symposium: Migration, Displacement, and Technology February 14, 2025 Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, NYU School of Law 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM | Protection Gaps for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) |
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Kirkus Review of Pushcart Prize XLIX: Best of the Small Presses
"On matters of life and death, two pieces are especially perceptive. One, a brilliant essay in the form of a set of definitions, finds Abby Manzella writing of the demise of a Pennsylvania coal town, while in another essay Leslie Jill Patterson hauntingly describes the all-too-common American way of death by assault rifle, with bullets that 'broke all the bones in the middle of her face, shredded her brain, tore through her abdomen, collapsed her right lung, and splintered her spinal cord.'” |
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The Forge Literary Magazine Forge Flash Nonfiction Competition 2024 Abby Manzella's "When the Tearing Comes, If the Tearing Comes" was a finalist! |
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Author Reading for South Florida Poetry Journal Nov. Issue Release Party. November 17, 2023
Abby will read her piece from the issue. |
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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." |
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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." |
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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. |
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Author Reading on The Greatest Indoor Reading Series (TGI)
Friday, September 4, 2020 at 8pm EST on Zoom Abby will read from her recent short fiction and poetry. |
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Participant on "Fighting Future and Present Dystopias" panel at the Association for Asian American Studies
Friday, April 10, 2020 at 4:30pm in Washington D.C., CANCELLED Abby will discuss her research on Gish Jen's recently released novel, The Resisters. |
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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.
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Talk
September 28, 2018 at 6pm at David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University Abby will present "Coal and the 'Life' of Phoebe Snow." |
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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. |
