Dallas Woodburn is currently pursuing her M.F.A. in Fiction Writing at Purdue University. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a B.A. in Creative Writing and a minor in Entrepreneurship. She published her first book, THERE'S A HUGE PIMPLE ON MY NOSE, when she was ten years old, and has been hooked on writing ever since. She is the author of a second story collection, 3 A.M., and has signed with a New York literary agent to represent her first novel manuscript. She just edited and published an anthology titled DANCING WITH THE PEN: A COLLECTION OF TODAY'S BEST YOUTH WRITING that features stories, poems, and essays by more than 65 young writers in middle school and high school from across the U.S. and even abroad

Dallas's short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in numerous literary journals including Monkeybicycle, Cicada, flashquake, Arcadia Journal, The Newport Review, and Eclectic Flash. In addition, she has written dozens of articles for publications including Family Circle, Writer's Digest, Motherwords, Justine, The Los Angeles Times, and eight Chicken Soup for the Soul books. She is a staff writer for the websites GradtoGreat.com and TweenParent.com and writes the words and storyline of a monthly comic strip for the youth anti-drug magazine Listen.

Dallas has been honored as a Liberty Mutual Responsible Scholar, a Jim Murray Memorial Foundation Scholar for excellence in journalism, and was recently a national finalist for both the Marshall and Mitchell Fellowships. She loves teaching writing workshops and speaking to schools and community groups about reading and writing. In addition to her work as founder and president of Write On! For Literacy, Dallas serves on the board of the national nonprofit organization SPAWN (Small Publishers, Artists and Writers Network) as the Youth Director.

Her website: http://writeonbooks.org/
Her blog: http://dallaswoodburn.blogspot.com

 

Sunday, April 17, 2011

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