Writer

Misty Yarnall

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BA, Creative Writing, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY, August 2020

Anticipated graduation May 2022

AA, English/Creative Writing, Monroe Community College, Rochester NY, August 2018-May 2020

Graduated with an AA in English, AA in Creative Writing, and an honors certificate

Attended Creative Writing Department Meetings with faculty to organize events and boost enrollment.

Became MCC’s first Social Media Content Specialist for the Creative Writing Department, including posting writing prompts twice a week, advertising writing events at the college and in the local community, celebrating student, faculty, and alumni writing accomplishments, etc.

Literary Intern at DLG Publishing Partners, June 2020- Present

Sorted through submissions and voted on which pieces had publishing merit. This included scoring pieces, writing brief explanations, and discussion with other interns on the potential for each piece.

Communicated effectively with authors by sending contracts and writing guides, as well as guiding them through the editing process.

Posted blog posts monthly, including author interviews and film shorts on several aspects of editing.

Completed several rounds of edits on short pieces as well as novel manuscripts. This included both developmental and grammatical edits.

Involvement at Writers & Books, Non-profit Literary Center 2015-Present

Worked as a Visitors Services Associate in the bookstore, completing tasks such as enrolling visitors in workshops, signing up visitors for memberships, selling books in the bookstore, and research tasks for the bookstore and local authors projects (October 2019-present).

Organized and led a weekly preteen writers’ group called Writers Roc!, including organizing prompts and writing activities, facilitating workshops, encouraging creativity, and working one-on-one with students on their writing projects (September 2019-Present).

Worked in a paid position as the Writers & Books Venue Manager for the Fringe Festival (September 2019)

Served as the SummerWrite Intern, completing tasks such as maintaining a blog of student activities, organizing performances, designing and constructing student anthologies, tracking class enrollment, and processing registration paperwork (May 2019-August 2019)

Coordinated consignment books, including organizing shelves alphabetically, filing contracts, creating and updating spreadsheets, noting missing books, and implementing an inventory system by index card tracking (January 2019-present).

Volunteered for Rochester Reads by setting up and working the event at the Penfield library, as well as printing, folding, cutting, and stuffing hundreds of pamphlets for each of the weeklong events (March 2019).

Served as an apprentice, assisted instructors with their lessons, provided feedback to students’ writing, and gave my own personal advice on writing (Summer 2018).

Writing Accomplishments

Third place in the national League of Innovations 34th Student Literary Competition for my ten-minute play “I’m Sorry Carrie” (June 2020)

First place in the Sixth Act Playwriting Competition for my ten minute play “I’m Sorry, Carrie” (May 2020)

Flash Fiction publication in Gandy Dancer “Outside” (May 2020)

Creative Nonfiction publication in LITRO Magazine “Essential” (April 2020)

Flash Fiction publication in Roadrunner Review “Postpartum” (March 2020)

Short fiction publication in The Merrimack Review “Wrapped in Flame” (January 2020)

Flash fiction publication in KAIROS Literary Magazine “100 Miles Per Hour” (December 2019)

Featured play “Santa Doesn’t Smoke” in the 2 Pages/2 Voices event hosted by GEVA Theater and Writers & Books (January 2020).

Langlois Award for Short Fiction for “Wrapped in Flame” (May 2019)

First publication of “100 Miles Per Hour” featured in Gandy Dancer, SUNY Geneseo’s literary magazine (December 2018).

Work Experience

Shift Supervisor at Panera Bread

Promoted to a Shift Supervisor in December 2019

Worked as an associate in Watertown NY (August 2016-June 2018) and Brighton NY (July 2018- present)

Became a certified Trainer in order to train several new hires in entry-level duties (January 2019)

Provide excellent customer service at the register and through customer interactions on the floor

Prepare meals for customers and maintain order accuracy

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