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“Ghosts in the Black Forest” | Gold Solas Award Winner, Love Story, Travelers Tales 2023

“Cornered in Madrid” | Soundtrack of Travel Competition Finalist, Intrepid Times 2023

Anton Chekhov Award for Flash Fiction Contest Distinguished Finalist 2021 for “False Positives”

Solas Award Honorable Mention 2021, Travelers Tales for “Where I’ve Been”

My Paper Ghosts Vintage Photo Story Contest Honorable Mention 2021 for “Breezy Girl on a High Balcony”

Keynote event at Dominican University’s MFA in Creative Writing January 2020 residency: Marianne Rogoff’s 10-minute play “Dancing with J. Alfred Prufrock” was performed on Saturday January 11 @7pm

In Fall 2019, the play debuted as part of the Fringe Festival with shows at Allegro Ballroom in Richmond, Dance Arts Studio in San Rafael, and Aldersly in San Rafael.

Lucid Moments: Books as Viewfinders was a semifinalist for the 2019 Tamaqua Award for a Book of Essays from Hidden River Arts.

“BFFs” is a Finalist for the Hemingway Flash Fiction Prize and was published in Fiction Southeast in November 2019; featured on Story Radio Podcast (June 2020)

“Consuela Speaks Her Mind” Finalist in Narrative Magazine’s Spring 2018 Story Contest.

In 2018, Marianne Rogoff’s work also made the Short List for the Bath International Novella-in-Flash Award, Top 10 for Sequestrum’s Editor’s Reprint Award, and Top 10 for the Tillie Olsen Short Story Award.

Her story “Attention” was one of three Tillie Olsen Award Top 10 winners selected for publication in the July 2018 issue of Tishman Review.

Honored to be an invited alumni reader for 5-year anniversary celebration of Get Lit Reading Series in Petaluma, July 12, 2018, 7pm at Aqus Cafe, Thanks, Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor!

Pushcart Prize nominated story collection Love Is Blind in One Eye: 7 Stories published by Shebooks in May 2016, is available in ebook and print. 

10-minute play "Common Tongues" among nine shorts selected for staged readings at Mill Valley Public Library's February Shorts Festival! Thanks to Lavinia Spalding, who first published this piece as a short story in The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011. Performed at Creekside Room Tuesday February 23, 2016.

Pints & Prose, March 17, 2015, 6-9pm, Peri's Fairfax, Featured Guest Reader with the Tuesday Night Writers, followed by Open Mic, strictly 5 minutes, then Live Music.

LitQuake: LitCrawl at Rebound Books, San Rafael. Saturday October 11, 2014, 10am-11am. Reading of travel stories with Laura McAndish King and Lisa Alpine. 

Reading at Get Lit with other women travel writers on Wednesday July 23, 2014, 7pm, Corkscrew Wine Bar, Petaluma, CA.