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Country of Under won the 2024 Foreword Indies Silver Award for Literary Fiction.
Scoundrel Time selected an excerpt of Country of Under for its Editors’ Choice Award in fiction.
Necessary Fiction asked me to write about the research I did during my 10-year journey of writing Country of Under.
The Rumpus published an author interview.
Writer and activist SG Huerta interviewed me at trans poetica about the intersections of art and activism, literature as witness, and writing queer border stories.
Scoundrel Time published an excerpt of It’s Soulful and It’s Survival: a Conversation with Four Drag Artivists in the South.
Big Indie Books published an author interview.
Rosalia Scalia reviewed Country of Under for Necessary Fiction.
Country of Under won a Next Generation Indie Book Award Grand Prize for Fiction.
Sarah Archer interviewed me on Charlotte Readers Podcast.
For this Debutiful “A Life of Books” interview, I wrote about the books I loved as a teenager, the books that inspired Country of Under, the books I’m currently reading, and my modern scriptures—Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, and Jeanette Winterson.
Main Street Books chose Country of Under for its Best of Local Authors 2024 list.
Changemaker journalist Jen McGivney listed Country of Under as one of her favorite books of 2024.
Scoop Charlotte included Country of Under in its summer reading list.
Helen Benedict listed Country of Under as one of her five most anticipated books of 2024.
Charlotte Writers Club asked me to judge its 2024 Ruth Moose Flash Fiction Contest. Read my judging comments here.
The Arts and Science Council awarded me an Artist Support Grant to fund the soft-launch of Country of Under at the 2024 AWP conference and travel and lodging for NYC book events.
Country of Under won the 1729 Book Prize.
An excerpt of my memoir-in-progress won the 2023 Lit/South Nonfiction Award, judged by Melissa Febos, was published in Litmosphere, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Read the excerpt by pasting this address into your browser: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.charlottelit.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/shaffner-out-to-sea.pdf
Country of Under was among the five shortlist honorees for Dzanc Books’ 2022 Prize for Fiction.
Country of Under was shortlisted for Black Lawrence Press’s 2022 Big Moose Prize.
Country of Under was the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for a Socially Engaged Novel runner-up.
An excerpt of Country of Under won the 2013 Asheville Writers’ Workshop Fiction Contest.
"Letting Go", a personal essay, was published in Marie Claire.
An interview with artist and subterranean explorer Julia Solis was published in BOMB Magazine.
“Origins” and “The Seed,” two personal essays, were published in the anthology Lost and Found: Stories from New York.
“Sanctuary”, a memoir excerpt, was published in The Hudson Review.
An essay on Madeleine is Sleeping, a novel in prose poems, was published in The Lit Pub.
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