-creative writing

With nearly 30 years experience as a professional writer, Pamela Woolford writes screenplays, short fiction, and creative nonfiction, including memoir, profiles, and literary journalism. She is a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award winner in screenwriting, a recipient of a Maryland House of Delegates Official Citation for journalism, a three-time Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grant winner, a Baker Artist Award winner, a Changemaker Challenge Award winner for storytelling, and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She has been shortlisted for the Fish Publishing Short Memoir Prize, a Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards finalist, and a Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Contest semifinalist at Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts.

Photo by Denée Barr.

ANTHOLOGIES

In 2024, Pamela Woolford's short story "Threshold" was chosen by guest editor Bernice L. McFadden for the anthology The Fire Inside: Collected Stories and Poems from Zora's Den, Vol. III. (A decade before, "Threshold" had made Pamela Woolford a.Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction Contest semifinalist at Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts.)

In 2022 Pamela Woolford's short story “Pleasant People” was republished online with a new introduction in Grace and Gravity after having been anthologized in Amazing Graces a decade before. "Pleasant People" was one of the short stories that made Pamela Woolford a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee in 2018 after it appeared in Alfie Dog Fiction..

Pamela Woolford reads an excerpt from her short story "Just After Supper' as part of an evening of two mother-daughter readings during this session of the In Our Words reading series sponsored by Zora's Den. The event took place at Eubie Blake National Jazz & Cultural Center on January 19, 2023. Pamela's mother, writer Rev. Sadie A. Woolford, is seated to her left in this clip.

Pamela Woolford reads an excerpt from her short story "Threshold," which appears in the Zora's Den anthology The Fire Inside, Vol. III edited by Bernice McFadden and Victoria Adams Kennedy at the Baltimore book launch for the anthology at the Charm City Cultural Cultivation headquarters on September 30, 2024,

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“Pamela’s artistry opens a window to allow us to view ourselves, our loved ones, our neighbors in those...people,” Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edward P. Jones writes about Pamela’s work.

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