Annie Dawid lives and writes in the Sangre de Cristo range of South-Central Colorado.An English professor and director of creative writing for 15 years at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, Annie left full-time teaching for full-time writing. She founded BloomsburyWest, a retreat for writers and artists, in 2006.

Annie Dawid's new book of linking stories, And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories Of A Family, won the 2007 Litchfield Award for Short Fiction and was published in 2008. Her last book, Lily in the Desert: Stories, was published in 2001 by the Carnegie-Mellon University Press. Her first book, York Ferry, a novel, is now in a second printing from Cane Hill Press of NYC. Both books can be bought in any bookstore, on-line or in the flesh. You can also buy copies of York Ferry directly from the writer. Her photographs have also appeared in various literary magazines as well as shows in Oregon and Colorado. Read more of her bio...

NEWS     ANNIE DAWID READING AT THE 2010 MERCYHURST COLLEGE LITERARY FESTIVAL. Photo by Tyler Stauffer, The Merciad WINNER OF THE 2012 DANA AWARD IN THE ESSAY Annie's "Nitza Kosher Pizza" won the A Room of One's Own Foundation Flash Fiction prize for Fall 2012. It will be published this spring in the Los Angeles Review and on the AROHO website. Dawid featured in article on the 12th annual University of New Mexico Taos Summer Writers' Conference. "Ten Days Before the End," a section of Resurrection City: Stories of Jonestown, finalist in Glimmer Train's Fiction Open 2010. Resurrection City: Stories of Jonestown finalist for the Black Lawrence Press 2010 Hudson Prize, second or third book competition. "Dawid captures crowd, opens 2010 Literary Festival", 2010 Mercyhurst College Literary Festival, readings from “And Darkness Was Under His Feet.” Standing Beside Love finalist in novel-in-progress, Dana Awards 2010 And Darkness Was Under His Feet was a semi-finalist at the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards 2010 All Thy Waves, by Annie Dawid awarded 2nd place in the 2009 Memoirs Contest by The Writers' Workshop of Ashville, NC Read an article on Annie Dawid featured inthe Southern Colorado Literature Examiner. Read a revew of And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family, by Annie Dawid (Litchfield Review Press/BookSurge) from Jewish Book World, Winter 2009. Listen to Annie Dawid's Interview on Swiss Public Radio! The interview was originally recorded on June 28, 2009, and the interview length is approximately one hour. And Darkness Was Under His Feet: Stories of a Family, by Annie Dawid (Litchfield Review Press/BookSurge) named a Finalist in the Short Story - Fiction category of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Awards! Listen to Annie Dawid's interview on KWMV's "A Peek in the Valley" Read an essay by Annie Dawid on writing "And Darkness..." From Transcript to Fiction, Glimmer Train newsletter, May 1, 2009 Annie Dawid's "Mamelah's Monologue" awarded first prize in Grain Magazine's 20th annual Short Grain Writing Contest in Dramatic Monologue 2009.

	Sunset from BloomsburyWest

Writers Retreat: BloomsburyWest

A house of one’s own on a quiet street in the mountain hamlet of Silver Cliff, Colorado, elevation 7,980 feet, far from the madding crowds.

A place to read, write, think, make art, study, contemplate the nature of the object of your contemplation. One-bedroom, former miner’s cabin, all conveniences, “self-catering,” as the British say, though within one block is the best pizza place in a sixty-mile circumferance and a homey small hotel restaurant. Supermarket, health food store, gym and indoor pool, plus two gas stations within one mile.