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Current projects by Mandy Nadyne Clark
“Hope Everything Comes Out Okay”
Flash Fiction/Photos - collaboration
“Medical Records”
TV Spec Pilot - collaboration
Portfolio of Publications
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2025
Publish Date TBD
2025 | Nonfiction
Do you recall the time I borrowed a can of beets to smash a fly in my living room? Of course you don’t, because I told you it was to impress my mother if she looked through my cupboards at Thanksgiving.
2023 | Nonfiction
Matt tells me this so I won’t feel alone. But it’s all he says. No follow-up. Just: there. are. others. I haven’t a clue what he’s referencing.
“Highs and lows: my daughter's type 1 diabetes diagnosis”
2023 | Nonfiction
Highs and Lows is a nonfiction essay about the type 1 diabetes diagnosis of the author's 12-year-old daughter. It expresses the author's perspective of how lonely it can be living with a chronic illness, and the guilt she felt for not realizing her daughter needed medical help.
“The Story You Tell Strangers”
October 2022 | Flash Fiction
The room is dimly lit. The woman who just impressed you by gulping her Budweiser in one of those craft-brew bars is now asking if you have children.
Annie Hall Stole My Daughter’s Virginity
2023 | Nonfiction
I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST DIANE KEATON. However, I am guilty of giving my daughter full late-night DVD viewing rights which include Annie Hall on a tireless loop. Estimated hours played: 130
June 2022 | Flash Fiction
We’ve been divorced for ten years, but Ben never misses a chance to remind me of insignificant things that happened during our eleven years together.
“Your Adult Daughter’s Attempt to Rationalize Your Absence in Her Life”
February 2022 | Flash Nonfiction
In Florida, I made you mad four times. Big times, not like leaving-dirty-dishes-in-the-sink-mad or forgetting-to-pull-out-the-chicken-from-the-freezer-mad. These four times are validated—I’ll give you that.
August 2022 | Flash Fiction
I’m gonna tell a lie, Lisa says.
I saw your dad at Gino’s Pizza. On hump day.
Wait, was he with Rachel? I ask. They’d been seeing each other on and off since Mom had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and told him to develop some “outside female relationships and stay off my back.”
February 2021 | Flash Fiction
You’ve just stepped out of the movie theater into the humidity of a late August day. You weren’t particularly moved by the flick, although the reviews called it “heart-warming” and a “welcome mood-booster.” It’s a story of love and forgiveness. Both of which you’ve given up on recently.
“At the Library (for Grace Paley)”
January 2020 | Poetry
My son wants me to ask for the one about World War II with a piano and a girl?
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March 2016 | Flash Fiction
To get out of a four year affair, which she started to get out of an eleven year marriage, Vera started seeing a woman.
“In Case You Spot My Missing Father or Happen to Find My Cat Jenny B. Goode”
April 2020 | Flash Fiction
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January 2014 | Artist Profile
You probably know Cynthia Spencer through a myriad of lenses: as a teacher, a mentor, an advocate for the arts, a local artist, and yes, a creative genius. If you ask her what she calls herself she’s straightforward: “I’m a potter.”
January 2014 | Artist Profile
In Betty Turbo’s world there is no typical day and that’s just the way she likes it. Call her Betty, call her Agnes Barton-Sabo, just call her talented. She describes her art as “Always food. Always popular culture.”
“Yuji Hiratsuka, Master Printer”
March 2014 | Artist Profile
Whether you’re a student, friend, or art enthusiast, the name Yuji Hiratsuka brings joy and surprise with his talent for creating cheerful figures in his original prints.
December 2013 | Journalism
Ms. Lee claims 99% accuracy on her readings, but it’s her punctuality that worries me. It took four days to secure a time to meet with her and even then she was an hour late.
“Bounce” - available for purchase!
Winter 2011 | Fiction
“Oh, Fudge” - available for purchase!
Winter 2013 | Nonfiction
Spring 2008 | Fiction
Winter 2011 | Nonfiction
The requirement of Outside Experience (OE)
in the RWW program was a challenge early on for me. I marveled at the things people had decided to create: teaching classes, writing retreats, and collaborative books, among other things. When I thought about my own OE, I realized I wanted to combine two things I loved: pizza and writing. In a way, I hoped I’d inspire myself to stretch beyond the safe world I’d been living in for a long time.