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 The 2025 Detroit Writing Room Awards Winner |  |
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 Reading a chapter from DEVIL SUMMER at the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Summer 2025 |  Detroit Writing Room 2025 Writer's Retreat |
 Interview at the DWR Awards, December 2025 |  Open Reading at the 2025 Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing |
 Colgate Writers Conference, Hamilton NY |  |
Erin Dawkins
A Detroit-based writer, Erin Dawkins explores the uncanny and human emotion with a literary edge. She holds a BA in Journalism from Columbia College Chicago and an MA in English with a specialty in creative writing from Wayne State University.
FICTION PUBLICATIONS
"Stay Boy, Stay." Wild Greens Magazine
"Hidden Sores" Flash Fiction Magazine
"Not a Sprint" Five Minute Lit
"She's a Girl, Just Like You" Half and One
Subscribe to my Substack, RUNS THROUGH LIFE
"When Life Gives you an Inch, How Do You Take a Mile?" Detroit Free Press Marathon (Guest Blogger)
"The Crash Outs We Don't Talk About Enough" Detroit Mom
AWARDS
"Proof of Life" - 2nd Place Winner for Flash Fiction
Detroit Writing Room Awards, December 2025
"Meals in Heels" - 2nd Place Winner for Memoir
Detroit Writing Room Awards, December 2025
FELLOWSHIPS, WORKSHOPS & RESIDENCIES
Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing
Author's Fellowship Recipient
Martha's Vineyard, MA
June 2025
Detroit Writing Room Retreat
Detroit, MI
October 2025
Colgate Writers Conference
Novel Intensive Participant
Colgate University, Hamilton NY
June 2026
CREATIVE NONFICTION PUBLICATIONS
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