Vonetta Young (Literary Magazine Editor)
THE REGISTRATION LINK FOR VONETTA YOUNG WILL ACTIVATE WHEN MANUSCRIPT MART REGISTRATION OPENS FOR GRUBSTREET MEMBERS ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, AT 1:00 PM EST.
Vonetta Young is a writer of memoir, personal essay, and short fiction. Her essays have appeared in Indiana Review, Barrelhouse, Lunch Ticket, Catapult, and the anthology America’s Future: poetry & prose in response to tomorrow, among others. Her fiction has appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, Gargoyle, and the anthology Furious Gravity. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize.
Vonetta serves as Editor in Chief of The Offing, an award-winning digital literary and art publication. She previously served as Senior Fiction Editor for The Rumpus and Assistant Flash Editor for Hippocampus Magazine. She is an alumna of writing workshops at VONA/Voices, the VQR Writers Conference, Yale Writer’s Workshop, the Community of Writers, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Tin House Winter Workshop, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Her work has also been supported by the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity and The Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow.
Vonetta received a BA in English and an MBA in finance from Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, DC with her spouse and son. Follow her on Instagram at @VonettaWrites.
Vonetta Young's Availability During Manuscript Mart Week:
Zoom Meetings with Vonetta will be scheduled within these time periods (all EDT), but are subject to change. If Vonetta must make a change to this schedule, we will arrange a mutually agreeable Zoom time outside of Manuscript Mart Week.
- Tuesday, May 12: 10:00–4:00 EDT
- Wednesday, May 13: 10:00–7:00 EDT
- Thursday, May 14: 10:00–7:00 EDT
- Friday, May 15: 10:00–7:00 EDT
- Saturday, May 16: 10:00–7:00 EDT
Please register with Vonetta Young ONLY if you can be available within the time windows above.
What I'm Looking For
I love personal essays that include cultural criticism, something that goes beyond the personal story and puts the scope of questioning onto a larger societal feature, be it artistic, political, religious, anything.
Sample Titles or Authors
"homage to hip thrusts" by Simone Savannah (https://theoffingmag.com/insight/homage-to-hip-thrusts/)
"My Own Private Idaho" by Keegan Lawler (https://theoffingmag.com/insight/my-own-private-idaho/)
"My Hair Is an Archive of My Grief" by Jodi Savage (https://theoffingmag.com/essay/my-hair-is-an-archive-of-my-grief/)
Specializes In / Will Consider
The Offing publishes creative writing in all genres and art in all media. We publish work that challenges, experiments, provokes—work that pushes literary and artistic forms and conventions. The Offing is a place for new and emerging writers to test their voices, and for established writers to test their limits. We actively seek out and support work by and about those often marginalized in literary spaces, including Black and Indigenous people, and people of color; trans people, cis women, agender, gender non-conforming, genderqueer, two-spirit, and non-binary people; intersex people; LGBQA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, asexual/aromantic) people; people with disabilities; and especially people living at the intersections of these identities.