Sara Lynn Burnett
Sara Lynn Burnett is a Caribbean-based writer. Her work has appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Disfunkshion magazine, and Plainsongs. She was the winner of Wikimedia Foundation’s 2019 Global Short Fiction Contest, 3rd place winner for Writer’s Digest 2019 Short Story Competition (forthcoming July/August 2020 issue) and was a Key West Literary Seminar 2020 Workshop Writer. She lives in Saint Lucia and works regionally in the tourism and hospitality industry.
Sara Lynn Burnett is a Caribbean-based writer. Her work has appeared in The Caribbean Writer, Disfunkshion Magazine, and Plainsongs. She was the winner of Wikimedia Foundation’s 2019 Global Short Fiction Contest and is a Key West Literary Seminar 2020 Workshop Writer. She lives in Saint Lucia and works regionally in the tourism and hospitality industry.
Published Works
Kaylecia’s Dilemma. Short Story – The Caribbean Writer, Volume 33, 2019
Paperlips. Poetry – Plainsongs, January 2020
On The Value of Experiential Research. Essay – The Masters Review, April 2020
Occasional Moonlight. Short Story – The Caribbean Writer, Volume 34, 2020
The Depth of a Mountain. Short Story – The Caribbean Writer, Volume 35, 2021
The Caribbean Sensei. Short Story – Hemingway Shorts, Volume 6, 2021
Awards
Occasional Moonlight. Short Story – Wikimedia Heart of Knowledge Global Contest First Place in Short Fiction. Summer, 2019. Shortlisted for The Caribbean Writer’s Volume 34 Prize in Fiction.
An Indefinite Progress of Existence. Short Story – Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition, 3rd place, July/August 2020 issue
The Caribbean Sensei. Short Story – Finalist in The Hemingway Foundation’s annual Hemingway Shorts contest, 2021
Other
MFA Graduate Student. The Creative Writing Workshop at The University of New Orleans. Starting Spring, 2021
Key West Literary Seminar. Fiction Writing Workshop with Christopher Castellani. 2020
Stuyvesant Scholar. Writing Workshops with Nicole Dennis-Benn, 2019-2020
The Master’s Review. Submissions Reader, 2019 – 2020
Women Who Live on Rocks. Contributing Writer 2018
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