Two Poems in The Los Angeles Review
Two poems, "Summer" and "The Old Country," are published online in The Los Angeles Review. Read them here or click the images below.
Litquake Panel: Place as Portal to Prose
Featured on Litquake 2022's Place as Portal to Prose panel with Ann Harleman, Katie Flynn, and moderator Tania Malik for the San Francisco literary festival's Craft and the Creative Life series. "Setting is intrinsic to story and we often hear the phrase 'place as...
New essay, “Matter,” appears in The Smart Set
"Matter," an essay about Avalon, appears in The Smart Set (July 2022). It's about my search for the mythical island in France during the pandemic; how place feeds stories and how technology can deplete them; the connection between pointillism and pixels, Roxy Music...
Tufts Magazine features MOBILE HOME
Tufts Magazine features Mobile Home in the Fall 2021 issue: "By the age of 17, writer and editor Megan Harlan had lived in 17 homes as her family followed her father's engineering jobs, many in developing countries. In these interconnected essays, set in Lahore,...
Red Clay Writers Conference Workshop
Designed and taught "Playing with Facts," a guided essay writing workshop for the Red Clay Writers Conference.
MOBILE HOME Reviewed in Hippocampus
Melissa Oliveira reviews MOBILE HOME in Hippocampus: "The essays in Mobile Home are lyrical and big-hearted and thoughtful...Harlan’s nuanced take has much in common with essays by Jo Ann Beard, Annie Dillard or Maggie Nelson: inventive structure, detailed imagery,...
Best American Essays 2021
Megan Harlan's essay, "This 5,000 Year Old House," is listed as a notable essay of the year in Best American Essays 2021. The essay was originally published in the literary nonfiction journal, River Teeth.
MOBILE HOME Wins Gold IPPY in Creative Nonfiction
MOBILE HOME wins the Gold Medal in the 2021 Independent Book Publisher Award for Creative Nonfiction!
MOBILE HOME Nominated for Northern California Book Award
MOBILE HOME: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS was nominated for the 40th Annual Northern California Book Award in Creative Nonfiction (2021) along with works by Rebecca Solnit, Kay Ryan, Joan Frank, and Elizabeth Tallent. In their nomination statement, the Northern California Book...
Booklist: Review of MOBILE HOME
Booklist reviewer Courtney Eathorne wrote of MOBILE HOME (in a review posted in April 2021): "In this fascinating and lyrical memoir, Harlan examines the psychology of place by sharing her experiences as a child living in 17 different homes around the world...Harlan...