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Awards, 2018-2020
Nominated for The Pushcart Prize by Trio House Press
Nominated for the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award
Nominated by Glass Poetry for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Anthology
Invited to participate in “From My Window…And Other Places” by the Center for the Humanities and the Teaching and Learning Center
Nominated by [PANK] Magazine for Sundress Publications’ Best or the Net Anthology
Awarded a Light Relief Grant from The Graduate Center’s Lost & Found initiative
Awarded a Mellon Foundation Public Humanities PublicsLab Fellowship
FEATURES AND INTERVIEWS, 2018-2021
CLMP featured Women’s Work as a February release in February 2021.
Featured in Sundress Publications’ Lyric Essentials Series reading Michelle Maher’s Poetry in November 2020.
Featured in “Exceptional Poetry” in Frontier Magazine alongside Tracy K. Smith in September 2020.
Featured in Largehearted Boy’s Book Notes Series in August 2020.
Featured in the Best Dressed section of The Wardrobe, Sundress Publications’ Blog Space in August 2020.
Featured on The Hermit Poetry Series hosted by Neil Aitken in August 2020.
Featured in The Poetry Society of America’s “In Their Own Words” series in March 2020.
“Materials for Love: An Interview With Madeleine Barnes and Michelle Maher” in The Brooklyn Review conducted by Tom Kozlowski, 2020.
Book featured on Community of Literary Magazines and Presses list of notable Small-Press Releases in July 2020.
Book featured on “Open to All: A Crowd-Sourced List of Over 200 Mid-2019-2020 Poetry Titles” in The Kenyon Review, 2020.
Creatives vs. Coronavirus: Madeleine Barnes, Interviewed by Dani Burlison, 2020.
Featured in Thomas Whyte’s Five-Part Mini Interview Series, 2020.
Featured in Frontier: Editors Talk Poetry Acceptances, 2019.
Light Experiments featured on The Reading List, April 2019 via The Poetry Foundation, 2019.
Cordella Magazine featured in Luna Luna Magazine’s “15 Presses & Journals That Will Make You Weep With Pleasure,” 2019.
Excerpts of Cordella Magazine featured in CALYX Vol. 30:3, 2018.
Reviews of barnes’ work
You Do Not Have To Be Good: A Review by Sara Cahill Marron — Beltway Poetry Quarterly, 2020.
Recent Reading: Ian Seed, Madeleine Barnes, Peter Philpott, and Sarah Cave by Billy Mills — Elliptical Movements, 2020.
Sundress Reads: A Review of You Do Not Have to Be Good by Ashley Hajimirsadeghi — Sundress Publications Blog, 2020.
You Do Not Have To Be Good by Madeleine Barnes—A Closer Examination by Alex Carrigan — Quail Bell Magazine, 2020.
Review of Light Experiments by Madeleine Barnes by Lynn McGee —Glass Poetry, 2020.
Review of Light Experiments by Madeleine Barnes by Genevieve Kaplan — periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, 2020.
pre-2018 awards
2018: Awarded a Five Year Doctoral Fellowship by The Graduate Center, CUNY’s English PhD Program
2017: The Mark My Body Draws in Light mentioned in Ariel Francisco’s interview with Speaking With Marvels
2017: Featured Artist: Les Femmes Folles
2016: Featured Writer: The Plath Poetry Project
2014: Cover Design Winner of The Looking Glass Magazine’s Cover Design Contest
2013: Poetry Ireland Introductions Series Interview with Philip Cummins
2012: Student Leadership Award from Carnegie Mellon University
2012: Carnegie Mellon Adamson Award: Poetry, Second Place
2012: Nominated by English Department at Carnegie Mellon for Gretchen Goldsmith Langford Award
2012: Hungry Poets Prize from West Virginia University
2011: Academy of American Poets Prize from Carnegie Mellon University
2011: New York Writer’s Institute Scholarship from Skidmore College
2011: Gertrude Gordon Journalism Prize from the Pittsburgh Women’s Press Club
2010: First Place in the Albion Review Poetry Contest from Albion College
2010: First Place in the Three Rivers Review Poetry Prize
2009: First Place in the Borders Open Door Poetry Prize
2007: Mom Discovers Another Poet In The House in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette