"When the Flock Changed," an excerpt from my novel-in-progress, recently appeared in Narrative and was awarded the 2009 Narrative Prize. "Conversations You Have at Twenty," a personal essay, won second prize in Narrative's 2008 Love Story Contest, and appeared in Plume's Love is a Four-Letter Word, edited by fellow Fictionaut member Michael Taeckens.
In 2004, I received City College's Irwin and Alice Stark Short Fiction Prize for Regarding the Insurance Attorney, which was published at Lee Klein's Eyeshot. My fiction and nonfiction have also appeared in Granta, Swink, and Story South, among other literary publications, and my essays have been anthologized in When I was a Loser and What We Do Now.
Other writings include opinions and reviews published by a variety of magazines and newspapers, including, to name a few, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, and Barnes & Noble Review. I am also a contributor to NPR's website.
But I'm best known for my blog, MaudNewton.com, which I started in May 2002 with the aim of meeting others who were passionate about books, culture, and politics. Since then, the site has been praised, criticized, and quoted in The New York Times Book Review, Forbes, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, The New York Times, the UK Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker, Book Magazine, London's Evening Standard, The Scotsman, Slate, the Denver Post, Canada's National Post, and many other publications. For my thoughts on blogging, see Gordon Hurd's October 2007 interview for Yahoo! Picks.
Currently I serve on the Board of Directors for Girls Write Now, a nonprofit organization that pairs at-risk teenage girls with professional mentors to encourage their creativity and ambitions. I've also served on the advisory board for Very Short List and the Buzz Board for The Daily Beast. I've appeared on BookTV, Talk of the Nation, WNYC, and Radio Open Source.
A long-ago refugee from the practice of law, I am still paying off student loans. Consequently, I hold down a day job at a legal publishing company, and most weekdays find me at a desk reading state tax laws, rules, cases, and rulings, and writing and editing articles, books, and online materials about them. This is the reason I won't be able to participate here as much as I'd like.
‘lo, Maud. I know you’re busy, but I love your writing, and I really hope you can find enough time to make more of it and post a little here someday.
Maud…I love that name.
‘lo, Maud. I know you’re busy, but I love your writing, and I really hope you can find enough time to make more of it and post a little here someday.
Maud…I love that name.