Seth Clabough


Seth Clabough is an American poet and fiction writer with Pushcart Prize nominations in both genres and author of the novel All Things Await, which was nominated for the 2017 Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction.
Clabough's work has been published in anthologies, journals, and magazines ranging from, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird: an online journal of literature & the arts and Aesthetica magazine to The Chronicle of Higher Education and New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. He has literary representation through in New York and currently works at Randolph–Macon College as an English professor and Director of the Communication Center after holding similar positions at Sweet Briar College and Longwood University.

Nominations and awards

  • West Trade Review – Pushcart Prize Fiction Nomination 2022
  • Roanoke Review – Pushcart Prize Poetry Nomination 2021
  • Ploughshares – National 'Best Short Story of the Week' selection 2017
  • Smokelong Quarterly – Editor's Selection 2017
  • Queen's Ferry Press Award – Editor Nominated 2016
  • Best of the Net 2016 – Editor Nominated 2016
  • Alternating Current – Luminaire Award for Best Prose 2015
  • storySouth - Million Writer Award: Notable Story 2015
  • Luigi Bonomi & Associates – LBA Prize for Fiction

Education

  • University of Wales, Aberystwyth
  • University of South Carolina
  • Randolph-Macon College