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Lawlor, A., Position Papers (Factory Hollow Press, 2016)


2020 Whiting Award winner in fiction. In the words of the selection committee, "Andrea Lawlor's writing is mythic and gritty, lyric and witty, brazenly dirty and teeming with life. Their debut novel is at once a bacchanalian celebration of outlaw living and an old-fashioned bildungsroman, following its seductive, shape-shifting antihero at a gallop on the path to self-discovery. An exacting psychological authenticity puts the reader squarely into the body of a character who’s endangered and radiant at once."


Lawlor, A. (2025) Invited Speaker. Kelly Writers House. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, April 2025.


Lawlor, A. (2025) Invited Speaker. Writers in Camden. Rutgers-Camden, Camden, NJ, April 2025.


Lawlor, A. (2025) Panelist. The Center for Fiction presents Queering Form: Weird Fiction, with Kazim Ali, Henry Hoke, Andrea Lawlor, and Mecca Jamilah Sullivan. Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 2025.


Lawlor, A. (2025) Moderator. In conversation with Emma Donoghue, Center for Fiction, Brooklyn, NY, March 2025.


Invited guest on the podcast This Queer Book Saved My Life, with guest Saraid de Silva (aired June 2024).


Invited to serve as an Advisory Board member of the Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship in Writing & Publishing at the Cleveland State University Poetry Center (2021-present)


Served as a Fiction Mentor for the Periplus Collective in 2023-2024.


Was an invited judge for a number of literary contests or prizes from 2021-2024, including for Lambda Literary, the Publishing Triangle, and the Columbia University's Undergraduate Fiction Prize.