A sampling. You know. In case you’re interested…
Appearances
- I presented on the Indiana Writers’ Center 1st ever Facebook Live Open House, Saturday, May 23, reading my essay, “Aftermath.”
- I presented remotely at AWP 2020 in Texassssss, March 5, 2020! Whooo!
- I’ll be appearing half-dressed and fully disheveled in the bathroom mirror tomorrow morning (A.K.A.: mid-afternoon). Cashme ousside. Howbowdah?
- Guess who won the 1st Annual HippoCamp Story Slam at HippoCamp18?!? Guess. Guess.
Okay. It’s meeeee:
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- I presented at Hippocamp18! Lancaster, PA, at some point during August 24 – 26, 2018 @ some time that I hoped to hell wasn’t morning.
- I presented at Hippocamp17! September 10, 2017 @ 8:45–10:00 A.M.
- Reading at the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Mississippi, November 19, 2014
- Reading and Authors’ Panel, Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, GA, August 31, 2014
Publications
Memoir & Personal Essays
“50, and a Reluctant Porn Star,” PULPMAG, on Medium, May, 2020 (reprint of “Porn Star”)
“Serial Killers Among Us: Meditations on the World’s Most Controversial Punctuation Mark,” The Writer, December, 2017
“Mother” and “The Other ‘F’ Word” (reprint, not available online), Gnu Journal, Spring & Summer 2017
“Mama’s Strawberry Candies,” Blogghetti, April, 2017
“Tiny Truth,” Creative Nonfiction (Issue #61, Winter 2017; not available online); Winner of Daily Tiny Truths Twitter Contest
“The Math of Marriage,” Creative Nonfiction (Issue #59, Spring 2016); Best Essay Prize, July, 2016; Pushcart Prize nominee
“The Other F Word,” Hippocampus Magazine theme issue, July, 2015; Semi-finalist, Mark Twain Humor Writing Awards, 2015
“Honeymoon,” Hippocampus Magazine, January, 2015; Finalist for 2014 Remember in November
“Porn Star,” Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South & Women Behaving Badly, anthology of nonfiction, 2014
“Things You Should Never, Ever, Ever Say to Your Children,” Superstition Review, December, 2010
“At Night,” (not available online) Sonora Review, June, 2010
“Aftermath,”Brevity, Issue 32, January, 2010 (Included in US and international curriculum/college creative writing programs… ⇓⇓⇓)
Did you think I was joking?? ⇓⇓⇓
Human Interest, Personal Profiles, Scholarly Articles
(not available online)
- “Journey to Memoir: Reaching and Retrieving Long-Lost Memories,” The AWP Pedagogy Papers 2010
- “Don’t Open That Door!” Indianapolis Star, October, 2008
- “They’re Baack! Youngsters Descend Upon Zionsville Schools,” Indianapolis Star, August, 2008
- 100+ human interest and personal profile articles, com and The East County Gazette, 2008-2009
Guest Blogs
- “Mama’s Strawberry Candies,” Blogghetti, April, 2017
- “And Now, A Message from the Grammar Police Chief,” Superstition Review, August, 2016
- “Criminally Bad Grammar,” Superstition Review, March, 2015
- “Moving on After Divorce,” (not available online) Tiny Shifts, March, 2015
- “For the LOVE of the Language,” Superstition Review, July, 2013
- “So You Want to be a Writer,” Superstition Review, March, 2013
- “When You Must Be Brief, But Have So Much to Say…,” Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, February 11, 2010
Fiction
- “The Arcade at Midnight,” Grand Prize, Haunted Waters Press: Penny Fiction, 16 Lovely Words: A Flash-Fiction Writing Competition, March, 2016
- “Murdoch’s Mansion,” First Place, 2014 Halloween Writing Contest, Current
- “Blutarsky’s Exotic Animal House,” (not available online) The GNU, Literary Journal of National University, 2010
Interviews
- “We Can Only Navigate with What We Know,” A Conversation with Elane Johnson by Rachel Ann Brickner, Creative Nonfiction, Issue #59
- “An Interview with Author Elane Johnson,” (currently unavailable online) Haunted Waters Press, August 15, 2016
Podcasts
YouTube Presentations
- Interpreting Non-Fiction: “The Math of Marriage” by Elane Johnson, Presentation by Miguel Borje, January 26, 2017
Images/Videos, Reviews & Press
Reviews
- Deep South Magazine
- Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review
- The Commercial Appeal, Part of the USA Today Network
- New Pages
- Chapter 16
- Junk Talk: A Community Fix
- Writing from Misty Hill, blog
Images/Videos
- New Pages, Spring, 2016
- Poets & Writers Directory
- Most Read in 2016 at Creative Nonfiction
- National University MFA in Creative Writing Program Overview, Notable Graduates
- National University Student/Alumni Success
- SNHU website blurb, Excellence in Teaching Award 2016
- SNHU Insights Magazine Faculty Spotlight
- “A HippoCamp Pre-Orientation, Part I”
- Wikipedia – Creative Nonfiction (magazine)