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Awards Publications and Credits

“Quotidian Delivery” a poem for Thought For Food Anthology by South Broadway Ghost Society Press (forthcoming)

The Hive Poetry Collective Podcast interviews Kierstin Bridger by Lisa Allen Ortiz

INTERVIEW with Sundress Blog and Kierstin Bridger reads Lynn Emanuel

Painted Bride Quarterly Issue 99 “Familial Snag” Poem

“When The World Wants Fewer Hands and More Arms” Snollygoster Issue on politics

Microfiction

“Maia Gathering Firewood” a micro fiction story in Raleigh Review Volume 9.2

COLORADO MATTERS INTERVIEW-TIME –last 15 min 

Blog interview about Demimonde

2018 Poetry 

Colorado Encyclopedia: Kierstin Bridger

3 Poems in summer issue of a Pilgrimage

Legions In the Sun World: War Poems of the Great War— A World War 1 Anthology edited by Colorado Poet Laureate, Joseph Hutchison

“Here We Awoke, A Choir of Quiet Angels  Telluride Inside and Out

“For You Mother, a Storm Seed” BorderLands Texas Poetry Review #47

 2018 Prose Publications 

Traders Flash Fiction at Ilanot Review

Portrait Hall Palimpsest: Storied Houses Lyric Essay at Hobart

“She Drove us To The River of Sorrows”  Essay in edible South West Colorado

2017 Poetry Publications:

“Of Arc” Winner of the 9th Fortnight Prize from Eyewear Publishing

Charter Oak Award Best Historical Writing Silver Award for “Red Cross” (Forthcoming)in Footnote by Alternating Current Press with “Doing my Bit” 

“Scrim” in Atlas+Alice 

“Of Arc” in Califragile

“Flight Plan Interrupted” and “Snapchat/Snapshot” in Califragile

Demimonde is the new Women Writing The West’s Willa Award Winner for Poetry!

2017 Manifest West Anthology

Teow Lim Goh’s Interview of Kierstin Bridger in Canopy

Prairie Schooner Summer Issue “What I Didn’t Photograph“

Hoot Review February Issue “Cold War”

 POETRY PUBLICATIONS

2016 Microfiction

1000 Words Summer 2016 PLAYA “Applebomb, Another Word for Pomegranate”

2016:

Painted Bride Quarterly Forthcoming in the Locals Edition PODCAST OF SLUSH PILE

Demimonde Review in Rain Taxi

Fool For Poetry Highly Commended Chapbook

Mountain Gazette  “Elliptical” Summer Issue

Concis “Indictments” May 1 —Anthology Spring 2016

Bared Anthology by Les Femmes Folles Books “The Once Welcome Guest Rises” and    “Dinner Party” (reprint) Just out!!

December Magazine  Volume 27.1  Finalist For the Jeff Marks Poetry Contest

DEMIMONDE published by Lithic Press February 29, 2016

The Fem  “Cast of Cousins” March 3

Hawaii Review  83 “Missing” Winter 2016

Lascaux Prize Anthology “Manifest” Finalist (Reprint)

ONE by Jacar Press “Nature Of Love” Issue 8

Progenitor Art & Literary Journal 1st Place winner in the 2015 ACC Poetry contest: “With Feathers”—Pushcart nominated

Red Paint Hill “Calculation of Distance of Distance” Issue 9

Sunstruck Magazine 2 poems, Volume 2 Issue 1 Feruary “Liminal On United” and “I Can’t Read Tea Leaves or Tarot”

2015

Botticelli Magazine “Dress of Faith”

Contrary Magazine “Gilt” Pushcart Nominated

Fruita Pulp: Poetics Discussion with 3 other poets

The Harlequin: “Cider Portrait” Fall issue 8

If and Only If Journal“You Could Call This Another Father Poem” Winter Issue 2

Intimacy Anthology“Einstein Says” 2015 by Jacar Press:

Pasque Petals Anthology: “A Camera Interrupts,” The Old Country Exhales,” and “Crone”

Telluride Tales, a Journal of the Telluride Historical Museum Volume IV “Inside the Beast” and “Carpe Diem”

Tulane Review: “Carpenter’s House” Spring 2015

3Elements Review: “Horace Meant Pluck Not Seize” Summer Issue 7

2013 -2014

About Place Journal” Volume III Issue 1 “Port of Call San Juan Puerto Rico”

Blast Furnace: “Carpenter’s House” and Step Mother” Spring Volume 5, Issue 1

Broadsided Press “Haiku Year In Review”— 2 poems: Spring and Fall finalist

Cactus Heart #8.5 2014 (and online as example of their taste)“Product of Mexico”

Chicago Literati 2013: “Because Now There Are School Shootings” and “Reading Your Face in Placerville”

Fugue Issue #48 “Arrival”

Something’s Brewing Anthology: 2 poems: “Four Girls March 2014

Sugar Mule: Issue #49 edited by Cameron Scott  “Danny”and “Long Distance”

Willow Creek Journal: “End of Summer” Summer 2014

Poetry With A Dash Of Salt Anthology edited by D. Marlar “Notes On Transparency”

The City Fox,UK “Leader of The Pack” #2 “Ashes”  Issue

Fruita Pulp: “Manifest” February

 Mason’s Road Literary and Arts Journal–  “Eggs, Garlic, Yam” Transformations Issue

 Pilgrimage Magazine– “Grace” Issue Winter

Stoneboat 4.1 “Weeble Haibun” Fall

Spilt Infinitive(3 poems) & 2013 Best of Spilt Infinitive

Atwood Magazine“Product of Mexico” (early version) April Issue 4 Daydreams Issue

Prime Number April- June 2013 “Loaded”  Magazine, Prime Decimals

2012

Turbulence Poetry December 2012“Host of Multitudes Swallow Me Whole”  UK

The English Chicago Review December  “Nuclear Family Portrait”  UK

Memoir Journal, Issue 10 (2 poems) June

Mountain Gazette November, July, and May 2012 issues

Copperfield Review (3 poems)April 2012

Thrush Literary Journal,  May  “Boundary Breech” 

Occupoetry“You Occupy the Field” May

2011-present Telluride Inside and Out– http://www.tellurideinside.com: Poet’s Corner- ongoing

 Credits

2015  to write and perform a centennial poem for the historic Sherbino Theatre in Ridgway, CO

2015 Reading with poets Wendy Videlock and Jennifer Hanncock

2014 and 2015 Performance poet at Telluride Literary Festival: Literary Burlesque

2014 Commencement speaker, Pacific University for Class of 2014 MFA Forest Grove, OR

2014 Featured Reader at Ziggies, Denver’s oldest Blues Bar

2014 Literary Burlesque in Telluride, CO

2014 Demimonde Historical Talk “Girls on The Line” Poetry and Telluride’s Red Light District at the Historical Museum

2013—present–established with co-director, Beth Paulson, Open Bard Poetry Series. Ridgway, CO

2013 “Editor-in Sheaf” of Ridgway Alley Poems in Ridgway, CO

2013 Poetry in EEEmotion- “water” A performance with Luis Lopez in Grand Junction, Colorado

2012 Featured Poet “Ekphrasis” Strong House Studio and Gallery – Ekphrastic Poetry printed on the Gallery Walls

2012 Judge for Mark Fischer Poetry Prize

2012 Featured Poet for Twenty by Telluride

2012 Featured Poet for Talking Gourds Poetry Series, Telluride CO

2012 & 2011 Poetry performer Telluride Arts Telethon Telluride, CO

2006 Judge for High School Poetry Contest, Ridgway CO

2000 Featured Writer, After Long Silence: New Voices, Seattle WA

Awards

2016 Finalist For the Jeff Marks Poetry Contest

Shortlisted for The Manchester Poetry Competition for a portfolio of work

2015 ACC Writer’s Award 1st Place Poetry

2014 Anne La Bastille Writing Resident for Poetry

2011 Winner of the Mark Fischer Poetry Prize

2012 3rd Place in poetry and prose, June Issue of Memoir Journal

2011 Finalist for the Broadsided Press “Haiku Year in Review” Fall

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