awards
2022 »
Notable, Best American Essays 2022, “Returning to the Earth“
Finalist, december magazine‘s Curt Johnson Prose Award
Finalist, Gigantic Sequins‘ 11th Annual Flash Fiction Contest
2021 »
“My Time” Fellowship for Parents from the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow
2020 »
Finalist, Remember in November Contest in Creative Nonfiction, Hippocampus Magazine – I’ll Be Seeing You: A Black Woman Travels in 2017
Writer-in-Residence, Juniper Editing & Creative
Writer-in-Residence, The New Southern Fugitives Web Residency in Fiction
2019 »
1st Place, Boston Accent Lit’s ‘Wicked Short’ Nonfiction Contest — “In the Drink“
2018 »
Honoree, Hellebore Scholarship Award in Creative Nonfiction — Bitter Grief
nominations
Ellipsis Zine Best of … 2022
“Larkspurs and Saltwater,” Alan Squire Publishing Bulletin
Best Small Fictions »
“What Remains,” CHEAP POP
“Plant Mother,” And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative (Alternating Current Press, 2022)
“The Shack,” hex literary
Best American Essays »
“A Black Mama’s Breathwork, or, the First Time I Had ‘The Talk’ with My Daughter,” jmww
Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses »
“In the Water’s Grip,” Ecotone
“What Remains,” CHEAP POP
“Fixed,” Nurture: A Literary Journal
Best of the Net »
“Bitter Grief,” The Hellebore Press
Best Microfiction »
“Sweets,” wigleaf
mentions
Featured in the Mar. 13, 2023 Memoir Monday newsletter, “In the Water’s Grip“
Featured in the Jan. 23, 2023 Memoir Monday newsletter, “Bearing Witness,” TriQuarterly
Featured in the Aug. 22, 2022 Memoir Monday newsletter, “Transfiguration,” Hobart Pulp
1455’s 4th Annual Literary Festival, panel on “Literary vs. Freelance: The how’s and why’s of publishing nonfiction”, watch on YouTube
Featured in the May 23, 2022 Memoir Monday newsletter, “Just Bare Your Belly,” Mutha Magazine
Rediscovering Home: A Conversation with DW McKinney – Shenandoah Literary
The 10 Most Popular Narratively Stories of 2019 — My Secret Life as a Mysterious Multimillionaire’s Personal Assistant
Essay recommended by The Unglossed Podcast in episode: “Balance”, September 25, 2019
DW McKinney 