Marijean Oldham

Born: United States

Citizenship: USA
Contact Details: Marijean at jaggerscommunications dot com or social links below:

Substack

Bluesky Social

Facebook

Instagram

LinkedIn

Education:
Bachelor of Arts, English, Lindenwood University, 1995

Literary Magazine Experience:

  • Managing editor, Delmar Magazine, St. Louis, Missouri, 1997
  • Publicity and events, Delmar Magazine, St. Louis, Missouri, 1995-1997
  • Editor, The Griffin, Lindenwood University, 1995

Selected Grants and Awards:

  • Midwest Review, Best Short Fictions Nomination for Leftovers on the Dashboard, 2024
  • Smokelong Review Workshop Prize Longlist for Leftovers on the Dashboard and The Last Hall Monitor, 2024
  • Halfway Under the Stairs, Best of the Net Nomination for The Last Hall Monitor, 2024
  • Fractured Lit Anthology Vol. 4 Longlist, 2024
  • Chariot Press Flash Fiction Contest, Second Place, 2022
  • Spahmer Award for Creative Fiction, Lindenwood University, 1995

Residencies:

  • Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Mt. San Angelo, Virginia, October 2022
  • The Porches, Norwood, Virginia, USA, June and December 2018, March 2020

Retreats:

  • Kathy Fish Flash Retreat with A Reason to Write, Charles Town, West Virginia, October 2024
  • Chestnut Review Writing Retreat, Merida, Mexico, January 2024

Workshops:

WriterHouse Workshops

  • Writing Memoir, Brendan Wolfe, 2024            
  • From Fact to Fiction, Margaret Marangione, 2023         
  • Voice in Creative Nonfiction Writing, Brendan Wolfe, 2023
  • Elements of Fiction, Sharon Harrigan, 2021       
  • The Personal Essay, Jay Varner, 2020
  • Writing the Tough Stuff: Generating Essays, Jennifer Niesslein, 2019
  • The Narrative Moment: When/Where to Start Your Story, Kristie Smeltzer, 2016      
  • Evening Nonfiction Workshop, Jay Kauffman, 2016                                    

Other Workshops:

  • SmokeLong Fitness, 2022-3, 2023-4, 2024-5     
  • SmokeLong Summer, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Cleaver Magazine, The Art of Flash, Kathryn Kulpa, 2021  
  • Summer Writer’s Workshop, Jay Varner, 2019  
  • Baptism By Fire, Jay Kauffman, 2017-2019                 

Exhibitions:

  • Open Mic Night, monthly, New Dominion Bookshop, Charlottesville, Virginia 2022-2024
  • Open Mic Night, quarterly, Rapunzel’s Coffee and Books, Lovingston, Virginia 2023-24
  • Keynote Speaker, Friends of the Library, Jefferson-Madison Regional Library, 2024
  • Open Mic Night, Staunton Waynesboro Augusta Group of the Blue Ridge Writers Club, Augusta, Virginia, 2023
  • Jefferson-Madison Regional Library, 2022
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors, 2022
  • Merrie Mill Book Fair, 2023
  • Stone Soup Books, 2022
  • Central Virginia History Researchers, 2022
  • Barnes and Noble, 2014, 2021 and 2022
  • First Street Fair, 2022
  • UVA Bookstore, 2022
  • Westminster Canterbury, 2018 and 2022
  • Virginia Festival of the Book, 2014
  • Charlottesville Newcomers’ Club, 2014
  • Women’s Group of Richmond, 2014

Countries Visited:
USA, Mexico, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, India, St. Lucia, Antigua, Belize, Wales, England