G.G. Silverman - C.V.
Education
• Fiction Master Class at New York Summer Writers Institute, with Joyce Carol Oates, July 2021 & July 2022
• Advanced Fiction Workshop with Amy Hempel at New York Summer Writers Institute, July 2022
• “Writing the Imaginary” with Nalo Hopkinson, Emily Pohl-Weary, and Jeff VandeerMeer, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, 2020
• Tin House Winter Workshop, with Ted Chiang, 2020
• Art as Sacred Act, certificate course with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés at the Institute for Archetypal and Cross-Cultural Studies, 2019
• Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing, MA, 2016 - 2018: with Alexander Weinstein, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Allegra Hyde
• Certificate in Writing for Children from the University of Washington, Seattle WA, 2010 - 2011
• BFA in Graphic Design from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA, 1995
• Note: G.G. has attended many more workshops & courses that aren’t listed here
Publication History
Short fiction:
• Ursus, Channel Magazine, forthcoming in July 2023
• The Crush, Does It Have Pockets, May 2023
• Initiation, Weird Little Worlds, a Women in Horror month feature, March 2023
• The Gray, Chromophobia, a Women in Horror anthology from StrangeHouse Books, July 2022
• All the Boys, The South Seattle Emerald, May 2022
• Bambolina, Bambolina, A Woman Built by Man, a Women in Horror anthology from Cemetery Gates Media, March 2022
• The Corpse Carriers, QU, Winter 2022
• The Detonators, The South Seattle Emerald, May 2021
• Ancestral Damage, Rough Cut Press, August 2020
• I’m sorry, I tried, I love you, Speculative City, June 2020
• The Miraculous Ones, Not All Monsters, a Women in Horror anthology, StrangeHouse Books, April 2020
• Forgotten Girls, Psychopomp, March 2020
• The Disappearance, Speculative City, August 2018
• What the Wolf Taught, Corvid Queen, February 2018
• The Cure, Enter the Aftermath, Tanstaafl Press, January 2018
• The Feeding, Goddesses of the Sea, Fantasia Divinity Publishing, January 2018
• The Burn, The Other Side of Violet, Great Weather for Media, August 2017
• The Joy of Being Alive, So to Speak Literature + Art, George Mason University, 2017
• Let the Wild Ones Gather Them Home, ellipsis…, vol 53, April 2017
• The Summer of Infinite Possibilities, Molotov Cocktail, January 2016
• Jack and The Guardians, Easy Street Magazine, December 2015
• The Ringer, Deathlehem Revisited, Grinning Skull Press, 2015
• The Ghosts of Second Children, EGM shorts, Evil Girlfriend Media, June 2015
• The Last Dance, Robotica, Pop Seagull, 2015
• The Circle of Life, Books of the Dead Press, May 2014
• The House of Butterflies, Women on Writing, 2012
Poetry/Prose Poetry:
• fledglings {those who cannot give}, Scissors & Spackle, February 2021
• rites for women to perform upon waking, Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea, Great Weather for Media, August 2019
• Meditation at the Waterfall of the Gods, SpiritFirst.org, August 2018
• for Charles Bukowski, The Iron Horse Literary Review, August 2017
• #SurrealistNewYearResolutions, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Matter Press, Feb. 2017
• Critical Mass, The Seventh Wave, August 2016
• instructions for becoming an avian species, Iconoclast, #113, July 2016
• (the danger of becoming small), Lunch Ticket, December 2015
Young Adult Novels:
• “Stoners vs. Moaners,” self-published, 2016
Y.A. zombie/comedic horror novel, Amazon Kindle Top 100 Bestseller for Teen Humor
• “Vegan Teenage Zombie Huntress,” self-published, 2014
Y.A. zombie/comedic horror novel, Amazon Kindle Top 10 Bestseller for Teen Humor.
Finalist for the North Street Book Prize.
Honors and Awards
• Finalist, the Iowa Review Awards in Fiction, 2023
• Finalist, Bridge Eight Summer Short Story Prize, 2022
• Finalist, the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Diverse Writers Grant, 2022
• Semifinalist, TulipTree Publishing Wild Women short fiction contest, 2021
• Finalist, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing, 2020
• Semi-finalist, River Styx Microfiction Award, 2020
• Quarterfinalist, ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Prize 2018
• Spirit First Poetry Prize, First Place, 2018
• Nominated for Best Small Fictions anthology award, 2018
• Finalist, Iceland Writers Retreat Writing Contest, 2017
• Finalist, District Lit Flash Fiction Prize, 2017
• Finalist, So to Speak feminist literature + art Short Fiction Prize, 2017
• Finalist, The Offbeat Flash Fiction Prize 2016
• Finalist, New Millennium Writings Flash Fiction Prize, 2016
• Finalist, Molotov Cocktail Flash Phenom Contest, 2016
• Finalist, ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Prize 2016
• Finalist, North Street Book Prize, 2015
• Winner, Litreactor “Teleport Us” Sci-Fi Writing Challenge 2013
• Finalist for 2012 PNWA literary award, short fiction category
• 1st Place, Summer 2012 Women on Writing Flash Fiction Contest
Relevant Conference/Teaching Experience
• Visiting Instructor at ClarionWest, 2021 & 2022
• Independent Creative Writing Instructor, 2020 - present:
Offering private writing workshops online via Zoom. Currently teaching a year-long short fiction intensive for women
• Associate Instructor of Creative Writing for Community Education at Edmonds College, Edmonds WA, 2019 - present:
Offering courses in short fiction, flash fiction, as well as the business side of writing, how to sell/publish fiction and poetry, targeted toward beginning and intermediate writers.
• Taught and spoke at SCBWI-Seattle Chapter and at various libraries in Snohomish and King Counties, Washington, 2015-2019:
Venues have included the Poulsbo Library. Port Orchard Library, Marysville Library, Mill Creek Library, Foster Library
• Private writing coach/mentor, freelance editor, and publishing coach for youth and adults in and around Seattle, 2015 - present
• Writing coach/mentor, editor, and publishing coach for youth through Foundry10, Seattle, 2017-2022
Panelist Experience
• Panelist, “From Buffy to Okoye: How to write a heroine with heart who stands on her own two feet,” GeekGirlCon, Seattle WA
• Panelist, “Transhumanism in Comics and Fiction,” GeekGirlCon, Seattle WA
• Panelist, “Jessica Jones & PTSD: Pop Heroes with Psychological Trauma,” Emerald City Comicon, Seattle WA
• Panel moderator, “Impostor Syndrome: Are you as good as everyone believes you to be?” GeekGirlCon, Seattle WA
• Panelist, “We Need a Hero: Writing Heroes with Disabilities & Invisible Disabilities,” Emerald City Comicon, Seattle WA
Readings/Presentations of Work
• It’s About Time reading series, in conjunction with Seattle Public Library, Feb 2022, Seattle WA
• Two Hour Transport, featured reader, January 2020, Seattle WA
• Noir at the Bar, featured reader, January 2020, Seattle WA
• Surreal Storytelling with Strange Women, featured reader, September 2019, Seattle WA
• Glossophonics Radio Show, guest & reader, February 2019, Seattle WA
• Noir at the Bar, featured reader, January 2019, Seattle WA
• Surreal Storytelling with Strange Women, featured reader, December 2018, Seattle WA
• Two Hour Transport, featured reader, April 2018, Seattle WA
• Noir at the Bar, featured reader, April 2018, Seattle WA
• Nevertheless: A Women’s Storytelling Salon, featured reader, March 2018, Seattle WA
• The Other Side of Violet anthology launch, featured reader, Nov. 2017, Seattle WA
• Noir at the Bar, featured reader, October 2017, Seattle WA
• Noir at the Bar, featured reader, July 2017, Seattle WA
• Two Hour Transport, featured reader, May 2017, Seattle WA
• Noir at the Bar, featured reader, April 2017, Seattle WA
• At the Inkwell series: Women of Speculative fiction, featured reader, January 2017, Seattle WA
• Northwest Horrorfest, featured reader, October 2015, Seattle WA
• Tukwila Foster Library, featured reader, May 2015, Tukwila WA
• Vaginomicon: Women in Horror Month, featured reader, Feb. 2015, Seattle WA
• Readings at various open mics, including Hugo House, Seattle WA
• Bonebat Comedy of Horrors Festival, featured reader, April 2014, Seattle WA
• Readings at various open mics, including Hugo House, Seattle WA
Other Teaching History
• Adjunct Professor of Graphic Design at Sanford Brown College, Seattle, 2015 - 2018
• Associate Instructor of Advertising, Massachusetts College of Art, 1998-1999
Performing Arts Experience
• Was a member of Seattle-area stage performance ensembles Split Second Improv, and Bad Therapy, creating long form and short form improvised theater and improvised sketch comedy, 2018 - 2019
• Completed Advanced Improv Training at Unexpected Productions Improv School, Seattle WA, 2016-2018
Other Work Experience
G.G. has been a branding, design, packaging, and advertising creative consultant since 1998 and has worked with major brands in the footwear, beauty, healthcare, wellness, and consumer finance industries.