Marijean Oldham
Born: United States
Citizenship: USA
Contact Details: Marijean at jaggerscommunications dot com or social links below:
Marijean she/her (@Marijean) / X (twitter.com)
Education:
Bachelor of Arts, English, Lindenwood University, 1995
Literary Magazine Experience:
Managing editor, Delmar Magazine, St. Louis, Missouri, 1997
Editor, The Griffin, Lindenwood University, 1995
Publicity and events, Delmar Magazine, St. Louis, Missouri, 1995-1997
Selected Grants and Awards:
Spahmer Award for Creative Fiction, Lindenwood University, 1995
Chariot Press Flash Fiction Contest, Second Place, 2022
Fractured Lit Anthology Vol. 4 Longlist, 2024
Residencies:
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Mt. San Angelo, Virginia, October 2022
Chestnut Review, Merida, Mexico, January 2024The Porches, Norwood, Virginia, USA, June and December 2018, March 2020
Workshops:
WriterHouse Workshops
The Narrative Moment: When/Where to Start Your Story, Kristie Smeltzer, 2016
Evening Nonfiction Workshop, Jay Kauffman, 2016
Writing the Tough Stuff: Generating Essays, Jennifer Niesslein, 2019
The Personal Essay, Jay Varner, 2020
Elements of Fiction, Sharon Harrigan, 2021
From Fact to Fiction, Margaret Marangione, 2023
Voice in Creative Nonfiction Writing, Brendan Wolfe, 2023
Writing Memoir, Brendan Wolfe, 2024
Other Workshops:
Baptism By Fire, Jay Kauffman, 2017-2019
Summer Writer’s Workshop, Jay Varner, 2019
Cleaver Magazine, The Art of Flash, Kathryn Kulpa, 2021
SmokeLong Summer, 2022 and 2023
SmokeLong Fitness, 2022-3 and 2023-4
Exhibitions:
Open Mic Night New Dominion Bookshop, Charlottesville, Virginia 2022-2024
Open Mic Night Rapunzel’s Coffee and Books, Lovingston, Virginia 2023-24
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