Writer Amanda Shaw

Writer Amanda Shaw Amanda Shaw is poet and editor located in Washington, DC. amandashawpoet.com

It Will Have Been So Beautiful: Available Now

⏳ LAST CALL! This is your last chance to join my four-week online class: Revisiting the Marriage Plot in Shirley Hazzard...
02/19/2025

⏳ LAST CALL! This is your last chance to join my four-week online class: Revisiting the Marriage Plot in Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus and Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies. There’s still time to sign up!

We’ll dive into two sweeping stories of love, power, and fate in fiction. We’ll also hear directly from Lauren Groff about Hazzard’s influence on her writing.

Don’t miss this chance to read, discuss, and write in a supportive, insightful group. Registration closes soon—secure your spot now! https://tinyurl.com/Politics-and-Prose-Class

Amanda Cecily Shaw Politics and Prose Bookstore


On March 3 at 7 PM ET, Café Muse Literary Salon presents an evening of music and poetry featuring Amanda Shaw, Nathalie ...
02/13/2025

On March 3 at 7 PM ET, Café Muse Literary Salon presents an evening of music and poetry featuring Amanda Shaw, Nathalie Anderson, and Emily Tuszynska. It’s a hybrid event, so come in person or join us from afar!

📅 March 3, 2025
🕒 7:00 – 8:30 PM ET
📍 The Writer’s Center, Chevy Chase, MD & Online

Attend in person at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda or join virtually. This is a free event, but registration is required.

🔗 Register and Learn More About the Poets: https://amandashawpoet.com/poetry-events-media/cafe-muse-literary-salon-online-with-amanda-shaw/

Amanda Cecily Shaw Café Muse The Writer's Center Emily Tuszynska

Excited to join What the Universe Is, an online reading series curated by Michael Mercurio. Michael is one of those peop...
02/04/2025

Excited to join What the Universe Is, an online reading series curated by Michael Mercurio. Michael is one of those people who makes you grateful to be a writer and keeps me engaged when I just want to hide in the corner.

I’ll be reading with Rita Banerjee, a wonderful poet who is also Warren Wilson’s MFA director.

📅 February 11, 2025
🕒 7:00 PM ET
📍 Zoom – Free to attend!

🔗 Event Info & Registration: https://amandashawpoet.com/poetry-events-media/what-the-universe-is-reading-series/

Amanda Cecily Shaw Michael Mercurio .banerjee92

🙏 Thank you to Shannon K. Winston for her lovely review of my work in Brown Bag Lit’s Milk Journal. If you don’t know Sh...
01/29/2025

🙏 Thank you to Shannon K. Winston for her lovely review of my work in Brown Bag Lit’s Milk Journal. If you don’t know Shannon, she’s one of the most wonderful people I know, and the review moved me to tears.

“What is known becomes unknown, what is soft becomes deadly. Artfully, Shaw upends expectations and weaves together disparate threads that are, in the end, deeply intertwined.”

Please take a moment to read the full review here: https://www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal/a-review-of-amanda-shaws-it-will-have-been-so-beautiful



Amanda Cecily Shaw Brown Bag Lit Shannon K. Winston

How do you like your love stories: comic or tragic? 🎭 📚 Tell me in the comments!Hazzard and Groff both give us a little ...
01/27/2025

How do you like your love stories: comic or tragic? 🎭 📚 Tell me in the comments!

Hazzard and Groff both give us a little (or a lot) of each, one beautiful sentence after another. Let’s talk together about the how, the why, and the what in Transit of Venus and Fates and Furies.

📝 Sign-up here to join us, coming up on February 20: https://tinyurl.com/Politics-and-Prose-Class

Amanda Cecily Shaw Politics and Prose Bookstore

01/25/2025

✨It Will Have Been So Beautiful is in the Los Angeles Review! For *a limited time only* :) I have the honor of being the first book review on the page! Robert Dunsdon connected with the work in all the ways I hoped, and I am delighted by what he wrote.

“A lively and bold use of language. Various and engaging, the poems each carry within them something of account.”

Thank you, Robert, for your lively and original approach to the book. I appreciate how well you followed the leaps in language and the little idiosyncrasies in my mind. 🙏

Read the full review here: https://losangelesreview.org/it-will-have-been-so-beautiful-by-amanda-shaw-review-by-robert-dunsdon/




Amanda Cecily Shaw The Los Angeles Review

Will They or Won’t They? Or, “Reader, I Married Him”When humans tell stories, they talk about love. But the undying popu...
01/20/2025

Will They or Won’t They? Or, “Reader, I Married Him”

When humans tell stories, they talk about love. But the undying popularity of Jane Austen adaptations isn’t just about our need to find love. It’s also about our desire to hear and participate in stories through art.

The Transit of Venus and Fates and Furies are huge novels whose vibrant prose and profound honesty about the possibilities for human intimacy give us new ways to talk about power, gender, and even morality. I’m so excited to have this chance to return to teaching, and I’d love to see poets and writers in the Zoom audience! Starting Feb 20, via Politics & Prose.

📅 February 20, 27, March 6 & 13
🕒 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm ET
📍 Location: Online (Registration is required.)

https://tinyurl.com/Politics-and-Prose-Class



Amanda Cecily Shawecilypoet Politics and Prose Bookstore

Hi Everyone,This will probably be clear from the tone, but you’ll be seeing posts from me in the coming weeks that have ...
01/16/2025

Hi Everyone,

This will probably be clear from the tone, but you’ll be seeing posts from me in the coming weeks that have been written and posted with the help of the fabulous Jessica Bland, friend and social media genius. She’ll maintain my presence on this page, partially because…the algorithm.

I have conflicting feelings about social media these days (we all do). Still, I also want to maintain community, announce events (of course), and muse about all the debut author hijinx. Jessica’s here to add a little extra sparkle and make it all look cool. ✨

Thank you again–there’s so much out there you could be reading, and I’m cognizant of the luck I have.

Warmly,
Amanda

This is your last chance to hear some Smithie poets drop some dope slant-rhymes. You’ll wonder at what you’ve been missi...
01/09/2025

This is your last chance to hear some Smithie poets drop some dope slant-rhymes. You’ll wonder at what you’ve been missing, though it might be too much fun for a Thursday night. Would love to see you!

📅 Tonight!
🕒 Time: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm ET
🔗 Sign Up! https://tinyurl.com/Smith-Alums

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01/03/2025

Happy New Year! 🥂🥳🥂

I’m always a tiny bit (or a lot) late to the game, but I finally put some thoughts together about the year—thoughts which wound up way too long for a post. So let’s call it a blog–one which happens to be (partially) about how I’m always writing stuff that’s way too long for a post.

Full disclosure: I also wrote a little about grammar because I couldn’t help myself. I swear it’s a good kind of nerdiness-–the kind that wants friends to share it with.

Read the full post here: https://amandashawpoet.com/2025/01/journal-it-will-have-been-so-complicated-2024-amanda-shaw-poet/

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