Discipline: Literature – poetry

Sharon Charde

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: CONNECTICUT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015, 2017

Sharon Charde, a retired psychotherapist and a writing teacher since 1992, has won numerous poetry awards, the latest being 2018 finalist in the Blue Light Press chapbook contest for Unhinged to be published in 2019, Sixty Four Best Poets of 2018, The Halcyone, second prize for “Shadow,” in the 2016 CT. Poetry Society contest and semi-finalist in the 2019 Grid contest for full-length collections for The Glass Is Already Broken. She has been published more than 80 times in journals and anthologies of poetry and prose, including Calyx, Mudfish, The Paterson Review, Ping Pong, Rattle, Poet Lore, Upstreet, and The Comstock Review, and has had seven Pushcart nominations. She has also edited and published I Am Not A Juvenile Delinquent, containing the work of the adjudicated teenaged females she has volunteered with since 1999 at a residential treatment center in Litchfield, CT. She has three first prize-winning chapbooks, Bad Girl At The Altar Rail, Four Trees Down From Ponte Sisto, and Incendiary as well as a full-length collection, Branch In His Hand, published by Backwaters Press in November 2008, which was adapted as a radio play by the BBC, broadcast in 2012. After Blue, for which she won honorable mention in Finishing Line Press’s 2013 chapbook contest, was published in September 2014. She has been awarded fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center,Virginia Center For The Creative Arts, MacDowell, and The Corporation of Yaddo.

Studios

Calderwood

Sharon Charde worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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