Tad Bartlett is a fiction writer, essayist, and recovering poet. He was born in Ankara, Turkey; raised in Selma, Alabama; and married into New Orleans, Louisiana. Tad received his undergraduate degrees in theater and creative writing from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama; and a law degree from Tulane University. He earned his MFA in fiction from the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans, where he was a reader for Bayou literary magazine. He lives in New Orleans, where he practices law and works on various writing projects, including a collaborative novel with fellow Peauxdunquian J.Ed. Marston, a new novel project, and various short stories and essays.
Publications:
- “Not So Lonely After All,” Write Here/Write Now (Bird’s Thumb writing process blog) (February 2017) (essay)
- “Anti-Heroically Yours,” Bird’s Thumb (February 2017) (short story)
- “The Memory Gardener,” The Baltimore Review (October 2016) (short story)
- “Riding in Cars at Night,” Eunoia Review (August 2016) (short story)
- “My Time With You,” Chautauqua Literary Journal (June 2016) (essay/memoir)
- Pushcart-nominated
- “The Non-Artists,” Mulberry Fork Review (Issue 5; April 2016) (short story)
- “Birmingham Breakdown,” The Stockholm Review of Literature (January 2016) (short story)
- “In the Details,” Bird’s Thumb (October 2015) (short story)
- “Head Space,” The Writing Disorder (September 2015) (essay/memoir)
- Pushcart-nominated
- “Tree Houses,” The Carolina Quarterly (online; April 2015) (short story)
- “Addressing You,” Euphony Journal (Spring 2015) (short story)
- Anthologized in Monday Nights: Stories from the Creative Writing Workshop (UNO Press, 2016).
- “Through the Valley of the Shadow of Home,” Bird’s Thumb (Issue 3; Oct. 2014)
- “Hung Over,” Rappahannock Review (Issue 1.2; Feb. 2014) (short story)
- Interview here
- “new century/old century,” Double Dealer (2013) (poem)
- “Family Dinner,” Oxford American website (July 31, 2013) (essay)
- “Recovery Landmarks: Music After the Storm,” Oxford American website (Dec. 20, 2012) (essay and photography)
- “Food and Recovery: Reclaiming After the Storm,” Oxford American website (Oct. 29, 2012) (essay and photography)
- “Food and Memory: A Barbecue Homecoming,” Oxford American website (Aug. 6, 2012) (essay and photography)
- “Food and Writing: Talking Mushrooms with Terroir-ists,” Oxford American website (June 18, 2012) (essay and photography)
- katrina10swampytad (post-Katrina-related blog posts)
Competition/award placings:
- Pushcart Nominee, creative non-fiction (“My Time With You,” Chautauqua Literary Journal, June 2016)
- Pushcart Nominee, creative non-fiction (“Head Space,” The Writing Disorder, Sept. 2015)
- 2015 Short List, novella category, William Faulkner-William Wisdom competition (“Marchers’ Season”)
- 2015 Short List, novel category (with collaborator, J.Ed. Marston), William Faulkner-William Wisdom competition (The Truth Project)
- 2015 Finalist, Samuel Mockbee Award for Non-fiction (UNO) (“My Time With You”)
- 2014 Winner, Ernest and Shelley Svenson Award for Fiction (UNO) (“Superpowerless”; now titled “Anti-Heroically Yours”)
- 2014 Finalist, short story category, William Faulkner-William Wisdom competition (“Flock Apart”)
- 2014 Finalist (with collaborator, J.Ed. Marston), novel category, William Faulkner-William Wisdom competition (The Truth Project)
- Feb. 2013 Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers (“Riding in Cars at Night”)
- 2013 Finalist, short story category, William Faulkner-William Wisdom competition (“Riding in Cars at Night”)
- 2012 Finalist, short story category, William Faulkner-William Wisdom competition (“Addressing You”)
- 2011 Finalist, poetry category, William Faulkner-William Wisdom competition (“new century/old century”)
- 2010 Finalist, essay category, William Faulkner-William Wisdom competition (“Mythmakers”)
Conferences, Alliances, Readings, etc.:
- Founding member, Peauxdunque Writers Alliance
- Faculty/panelist, Tennessee Williams Festival, March 2017 (New Orleans, LA)
- Reading from Monday Nights anthology (Jefferson Parish Library), February 2017
- Invited faculty reader, Words & Music Conference, 2010-2016 (New Orleans, LA)
- Our Own Private Peauxdunque reading (Rosa F. Keller library), July 2015
- To the Blighthouse reading (Alvar Branch library), February 2015
- GCACWT Conference, short story readings (Fairhope, AL), March 2014 and March 2015
- Faculty/panelist, Louisiana Book Festival, 2014
- UNO Gold Room Reading Series, 2013 and 2014
- Co-coordinated the (original) “Yeah You Write” reading series in October 2012, April 2014, and August 2016, featuring readings by M.O Walsh, Mat Johnson, Bill Loehfelm, Amanda Boyden, Joseph Boyden, Tom Franklin, Beth Ann Fennelly, Benjamin Percy, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Gian Smith, Terri Shrum Stoor, jewel bush, Emilie Staat, Cassie Pruyn, John Barry, Kelly Harris-DeBerry, and Nicholas Mainieri.
- MelaNated-Peauxdunque Sunday Shorts Reading Series (Red Star Galerie), April 2013
- Attended Yokshop Writers’ Conference, 2013, 2016, 2017 (Oxford, MS)
- Attended Oxford American Summit, 2011 (Petit Jean, AR)
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