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Bryn Chancellor

English
Summary | Full Profile

Office: Fretwell 260B
Phone: 704-687-0212
Email: bchancel@uncc.edu

Academic Interests
contemporary fiction
creative nonfiction
creative writing
Fiction Writing
Related People
Aaron Gwyn
Julie Cook
Gretchen Pratt
Peter Blair
Fotini Katsanos
Heather Crickenberger

Education

  • M.F.A., Creative Writing (Fiction), Vanderbilt University
  • M.A., English Literature, Arizona State University
  • B.A., English, Northern Arizona University

Research Interests

Fiction writing, creative nonfiction writing, contemporary American fiction and nonfiction, psychogeography/the writer as walker, comix/graphic narratives, race/gender/class/sexuality studies

Courses Taught

  • ENGL 2128: Intro to Fiction Writing
  • ENGL 3202: Intermediate Fiction Writing
  • ENGL 4203/5203: Writing Fiction
  • ENGL 4206: Writing Creative Nonfiction
  • ENGL 4209: Fiction Writing Workshop: Flash Fiction
  • ENGL 6073: Topics in Creative Writing

Publications

Books
  • Sycamore, Harper/HarperCollins (May 9, 2017)
  • When Are You Coming Home?: Stories, University of Nebraska Press (Sept. 1, 2015)
Short Fiction
  • “The Moon, the Pyramids, the World,” NELLE, winter 2019
  • “This Is Not an Exit,” descant, 2014
  • “When Are You Coming Home?” Blackbird 10.2 (2011).
  • “All This History at Once.” PMS: poemmemoirstory 10 (2010): 113-117.
  • “Wrestling Night.” The Yalobusha Review 13 (2008): 101-109.
  • “The New Girl.” The Fourth River, 4 (2007): 50-58.
  • “Meet Me Here.” Gulf Coast 18.1 (2006): 12-24.
  • “At the Terminal.” Blackbird 3.2 (2004).
  • “In My Former Life.” CutBank 62 (2004): 42-56.
  • “Fossil Light.” Phoebe 33. 2 (2004): 98-115.
  • “Any Sign of Light.” Colorado Review  31. 1 (2004): 34-44.
  • “Start With the Walls.” The Cream City Review 27. 2 (2003): 31-42.
  • “Water at Midnight.” Crazyhorse 62 (2002): 20-28.

Creative Nonfiction

  • “Arterial,” Crazyhorse, Issue 98, Fall 2020
  • “String, Too Short,” Brevity, 14 Jan. 2019
  • “Missing Worlds”: personal essay at The Common 21 June 2017
  • “How to Write Suspense”: craft essay for Publishers Weekly 5 May 2017

Current Projects

  • Novel
  • Linked short story collection

Selected Awards and Honors

Writing
  • North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship
  • Prairie Schooner Book Prize
  • Poets & Writers Maureen Egen Writers Exchange Award
  • Jentel Artist Residency
  • Hambidge Center Residency
  • Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellowship
  • Arizona Commission on the Arts fellowship and project grant
  • Sewanee Writers Conference Tennessee Williams Scholarship
  • Bread Loaf Writers Conference David R. Sokolov Scholarship
Teaching

Honors Faculty Award, University of Montevallo, 2015

Selected Readings, Panels, Appearances, + Talks

  • Southern Festival of Books
  • Gertrude & Harold Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series at Vanderbilt University
  • Tucson Festival of Books and Masters Workshop
  • Virginia Festival of the Book
  • Alabama Book Festival
  • Sensoria: A Celebration of the Literature and the Arts
  • Hub City Writers Project/Spartanburg Public Library
  • Hoover Public Library
  • Prairie Schooner Book Prize Celebration Reading
  • Winthrop University Visiting Readers Series
  • University of North Carolina at Greensboro Visiting Writer’s Series
  • Sewanee Young Writers Conference
  • Poets & Writers WEX, McNally Jackson Books, New York City
  • UAB Writers Series, University of Alabama-Birmingham
  • Auburn Writers Conference Creative Reading Series
  • Slash Pine Festival, University of Alabama
  • Montevallo Literary Festival, University of Montevallo

Faculty Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Department of English, UNC Charlotte, 2019-
  • Assistant Professor, Department of English, UNC Charlotte, 2015-19
  • Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Montevallo, 2009-2015 (awarded tenure and promotion in April 2015)
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