awards
2022, december magazine‘s Curt Johnson Prose Award, finalist
2021, “My Time” Fellowship for Parents from the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow
2020, Remember in November Contest in Creative Nonfiction, Hippocampus Magazine – I’ll Be Seeing You: A Black Woman Travels in 2017, finalist
2020, Juniper Editing & Creative Writer-in-Residence
2020, The New Southern Fugitives Web Residency in Fiction
2019, Boston Accent Lit’s ‘Wicked Short’ Nonfiction Contest — In the Drink, first place
2018, Hellebore Scholarship Award Creative Nonfiction Honoree — Bitter Grief
nominations
Best Small Fictions, 2022
Best American Essays, 2021 and 2020
Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, 2022, 2021, and 2020
Best of the Net, 2019
Best Microfiction, 2020
mentions
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 