Nell Smith

Recognition & Awards

  • Longlist, The Masters Review’s Summer Short Story Award for New Writers (2022)

  • Finalist, Cutbank’s Big Sky, Small Prose Flash Contest (2021)

  • Nominee, University of Wyoming’s Outstanding Thesis Award (2021)

  • Orion Magazine’s Online Nonfiction Writers’ Workshop with Pam Houston (2021)

  • H. G. Merriam Award for Creative Work in the Humanities (2020)

  • Haub School Student Research and Creative Activities Grant (2020)

  • Graduate Assistantship at the University of Wyoming’s MFA Program in Creative Writing (2019-2021)

  • Finalist, Alligator Juniper’s National Poetry Contest (2015)

  • Baccalaureate Speaker representing Prescott College’s graduating class (2013)

  • Prescott College Student Union Board Senior Project Grant (2013)

  • Honorary Mention, Alligator Juniper’s Suzanne Tito Student Fiction Contest (2013)

  • Prescott College Environmental & Social Justice Scholarship (2010-2013)

Public Readings

  • Khôra Salon. September 14, 2023. (Virtual)

  • Laramie Audubon Society Reading in the Park. October 3, 2021, Laramie, WY.

  • University of Wyoming MFA Program Thesis Reading. May 13, 2021. (Virtual)

  • 5x5 Reading Series. February 19, 2021. (Virtual)

  • University of Wyoming MFA Program Reading Series. September 17, 2020. (Virtual)

  • University of Wyoming MFA Program Reading Series. February 27, 2020. Night Heron Books & Coffeehouse, Laramie, WY.

  • Alligator Juniper Literary Magazine Launch Event. National Poetry Finalist: “To Combat Loneliness.” May 7, 2015. Peregrine Bookstore, Prescott, AZ.

  • Baccalaureate Ceremony. Senior Project for Arts & Letters: A Delicate History of Fractures. December, 2013. Prescott College, Prescott, AZ.

  • Alligator Juniper Literary Magazine Launch Event. Suzanne Tito Student Fiction Contest Honorary Mention: “Good Dog.” 2012. Prescott College, Prescott, AZ.

Interviews & Media Coverage

  • Piccone, A. Words Matter For Scientists—Here’s Why. Wyoming Public Radio. March 19, 2021. (Link)

  • Miller, C. Meet the first years: Part 2. Creative Writing @ the University of Wyoming student blog. February 26, 2020. (Link)

  • Miller, C. Meet the first years: Part 1. Creative Writing @ the University of Wyoming student blog. February 5, 2020. (Link)