Carla Schick

Poet

Oakland, CA
California US
Email: 
carls.write20@gmail.com
Twitter/X: 
@carlsc05

Author's Bio

Carla S. Schick is a queer social justice activist and educator.  Jazz music has been a major inspiration in their writings & musings.  They believe in the power of the creative arts to forge a path to transformative justice.  Their works have appeared in Qu, A Closed Eye Open, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Sinister Wisdom, Forum, About Place, an anthology on RBG, when there are nine, the anthology Colossus: Body, and online at A Gathering of the Tribes and The Write Launch.  They were a recipient of the 2023 San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press poetry prize.   They received their Certificate in Poetry from Berkeley City College, and served on the editorial board for Milvia St. Literary Arts Journal.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Lifespan: Loss (Pure Slush, 2024)
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Ekphrastic Poetry (Moonstone Press, 2023)
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Home (Pure Slush, 2023)
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Which Side Are Your On? (Moonstone Press, 2023)
Journals:
About Place Journal
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Black Fox Literary Magazine
,
A Gathering of the Tribes
Prizes won: 

California State Poetry Society Prize, December, 2022; 2nd Place, for She Painted

California State Poetry Society Prize, November, 2023, 3rd Place, for Today I Could Be Something I've Never Been Before

Barbara Mandigo Peace Poetry Prize, 2012, 1st Place, for My Grandmother's Palm, Pantoum for Palestine

Barbara Mandigo Peace Poetry Prize, 2018, 1st Place, for When Birds Migrate, They Follow Nature

Two Sylvia's Press, 2023, Semi-Finalist, manuscript, "Words Like Stones" (renamed)   

Moonstone Press Chapbook Prize, 2023, Finalist, manuscript, "Chiseling Away At Walls"

California State Poetry Society, Honorable Mention, 2024 Annual Contest, "A Candle, April 2020"

Calfornia State Poetry Society, First Place, July 2024 Contest, "On The Way to the Library"

Calfornia State Poetry Society, First Place, August 2024 Contest, ""The Woman Artist  Untethers Herself"

Black Fox Literary Magazine, Longlist for Poem, Spring 2024, "Reasons for Surviving"

California State Poetry Society, first place, July 2024, "On the Way to the Library"

California State Poetry Society, first place, September  2024, " A Woman Artist Untethers Herself."

Concrete Wolf, 2024, Honorable Mention for my full-length manuscript, Words Like Stones

 

 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Toni Morrison, June Jordan, Pat Parker, Audre Lorde, Fady Joudah, Mohammed El-Kurd, Hala Alyan, Kaveh Akbar,
What I'm reading now: 
Pig by Sam Sax, James by Percival Everett, Evaporating Rage by Norm Mattox, The Force of Non-Violence by Judith Butler

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Jewish, LGBTQ
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Born in: 
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Last update: Jan 14, 2025