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2024

Selected to teach in The Juniper Institute's Young Writer's Program as a creative writing instructor. 

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Received The Juniper Institute Fellowship to work with Renee Gladman. 

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Winner. The Cara Parravani Memorial Award in Fiction. Judged by Christa Parravani.

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2nd Prize. Pithead Chapel's Larry Brown Short Story Contest.

Judged by Sequoia Nagamatsu.

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Finalist. The North American Review's Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize.

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2023

Scholarship to attend Bread Loaf Environmental Writer's Conference.

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2022

Won Writing by Writer's San Juan Residency.

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2021

Nominated for the Pushcart Prize by The West Trade Review.

Featured Writer interview with Margaret Malone.

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2020

Received support from Corporeal Writing.

Attended Body of the Book with Lidia Yuknavich.

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2019

Finalist. The Southwest Review's David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction. Judged by Lee Durkee.

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Panel at AWP in Portland, OR, reading an excerpt from my essay in the anthology Strange Attractors: Lives Changed by Chance.

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© 2023 by Bec Bell-Gurwitz, writer.

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