Melanie Pappadis Faranello

AWARDS_________________________________________________________________

• Writer-in-Residence Award at Monson Arts, 2024
• Writer-in-Residence Award at Kimmel Harding Nelson, 2024
• Winner of Marianne Russo Award for Novel-in-Progress from Key West Literary Seminars' Emerging Writer Award, 2022, novel excerpt
• Two Pushcart Prize Nominations, Short Story, "At the Auditorium,” and Essay, "El Coup."
• Winner of The New School Chapbook Award, novel excerpt
• Recipient of Artist Fellowship Award, CT Office of the Arts 2017
• Shortlisted for:  
• William Faulkner-Wisdom Competition in Novel; 
• Sarabande Books' Mary McCarthy Prize in Fiction; 
• The Dana Awards for the Novel; 
• Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Contest; 
• Whidbey Writers Contest in Novel; 
• Petrochor Reprint Award

CONFERENCES________________________

• AWP: Moderator and Presenter 2023 "Radical Empathy: Writing and Community Engagement as a form of Resistance"
• Key West Literary Seminars,  Merit Scholarship 2022
• Wesleyan Writer's Conference, Merit Scholarship 2019
• Sewanee Writers' Conference, 2015
• Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 2010