Miceala Morano
Selected Publications
Poetry
"The Alphabet is Not Enough" in New Verse News
"The Kuleshov Effect" in The Shore
"in which the prey wishes for teeth" in SHE Vol. 2 (forthcoming, print)
"Married To The Water" and "What's Broken" in Eunoia Review
"dissections" in Kissing Dynamite Poetry
"heaven sent" in Hooligan Magazine's Spilled Ink
"Portrait of You, Ending" in Brave Voices Magazine
"Four Poems" in Voidspace Zine's BLACKOUT
"soft" in Intersections Magazine Issue 4
"fading triptych for the end" in Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine
"I Need You To Hear This" in Ice Lolly Review's "Hope During The Pandemic"
"she vs. i" in Project Said: Diversity and Equity in the Arts
Prose
"Escapology" in Lumiere Review Issue 08
"Faceless People" in The Global Youth Review Issue 04 (forthcoming)
"Every Room" in Berkeley Fiction Review (print)
"self-portrait as unpunctuated sentence" in Gone Lawn (forthcoming)
Honors
2022 St. Mary's College of California River of Words Contest - Category IV Second Runner-Up in Poetry
Berkeley Fiction Review Sudden Fiction Contest - Honorable Mention
2022 Leyla Beban Young Authors Foundation Creative Writing Contest Finalist
Kissing Dynamite Poetry's Featured Poet, April 2022
Ringling College of Art and Design 7th Annual "Storytellers of Tomorrow" Writing Contest - Honorable Mention
2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Silver Medal and Gold Keys (2) In Poetry
2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Gold Key in Critical Essay
2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Silver Key in Short Story
2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Silver Key in Poetry
2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Honorable Mention in Poetry
2022 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Honorable Mention in Portfolio
2021 Foyle Commended Young Poet
2021 Arkansas Scholastic Press Association Literary Magazine Writer of the Year
2021 Arkansas Scholastic Press Association Superior Rating in Short Story for "Brother"
2021 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Honorable Mention in Poetry
Ozark Writers League Youth Writing Contest Winner in Short Story
Editorial Experience
Footnotes
Co-Editor-In-Chief, Nov. 2021-Present
Core Poetry Editor, Jan. 2020-Nov. 2021
The Young Writers Initiative
Contest Submission Reader, July 2021-May 2022
Chapter Founder and President, Sept. 2021-May 2022
Press
Interviewed by Zoe Yu for "Young Writers Should Be Taken Seriously — We're Writing About Our Experiences" in Teen Vogue (Feb. 2022)