Publications

FORTHCOMING:

Painted Bride Quarterly: Issue 103: Gestation & Change: "Last Night, I Had Another Nightmare about Pregnancy," TBD

FEATURED NOW!

Overtly Lit Issue 3: "Ode to the Uterus" and "Worship," June 2023

Anthropocene, "Beneficiary" and "Zeptosecond," April 2023

Porter House Review: "Hot and Wet," May 2023 — finalist for the 2023 Porter House Review Poetry Editor's Prize!

Minerva Rising: The Keeping Room: "[Robert]: A Lipogram Apology," Janaury 2023

Limp Wrist #7 Part 2: "A Poem for My Uterus' Depression" and "My Uterus Responds to My Allegation That She's Depressed," October 2022

Black Visions: A Jeffrey "Boosie" Bolden Anthology by The Fourth River: excerpt from Roadmap: A Choreopoem, June 2022

Currents: "Better," February 2022

The Rumpus: Letters in the Mail: "Cheat & Forgive: A Choreopoem Letter," January 2022

Wildness: Issue 28: "Even in Cartoons, We're Scared of the Black One," November 2021

The Missouri Review: Poem-of-the-Week: "On Grieving My Nexplanon After Its Removal," August 16, 2021—finalist for the 2021 Perkoff Prize! 

trampset: "Black Women Don't Experience Pain Tolerance," December 2020

The Rumpus: "Patience is a Virtue," "Temporary," and "An Orgasm So Good, You'll See God," Rumpus Original Poetry, October 2020

American Poetry Journal: "Do Not Pray," Issue 18.2, July 2020

Tammy 9: "Trauma as a Cigarette," Winter 2019

The Pangolin Review: "Flexible," "Pull Me Back," and "Refrigerator," Issue 7, November 2018

The Same: "Black Girl Magic: Origin Story," October 2018

Spire Light: A Journal of Creative Expression: "Chez N'Diaye: Fatou," "The Apranti," and "Letter to the Mother of a Suicidal Teenager," April 2018

The Shade Journal: Issue 2: "Condition of the Mother," April 2017

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FORTHCOMING:

FEATURED NOW! 

Five South, "Exes and Martinis," January 2023

The Rumpus: "Cure for Last Night's Leftovers," March 2022—#10 most-read essay of 2022!

Essay Daily: B-sides for The Texas Review's All-Essay Issue: "Tell It Backwards: an Erasure," June 2021

Artemis: "Grief as an Excuse," January 2021

The Texas Review: All-Essay Issue: "Fight, Flee, Freeze," December 2020

Exhume: Issue 001: "How to Survive a Breakup: Go for a Run," September 2018

HerStory: Modern Love Edition: "How to Survive a Breakup: Stop Taking Your Pills," February 2018

MadCap Review: Issue 7: "Guide to Meeting the Woman Your Lover Is Fucking," January 2018

Round Up Magazine: "High Heels & Fresh Air," January 2018

Fourth & Sycamore: "How to Survive a Breakup: Get a Houseplant," December 2017

TRACK//FOUR: Issue 4: "How to Survive a Breakup: Shave Your Head" and "How to Survive a Breakup: Sponsor a Child in Africa," July 2017

MadCap Review: Issue 5: "How to Survive a Breakup: Quit Smoking," January 2017

Thrillist Media Group, Sex & Dating Vertical: "What I Learned from 5 Years as a 'Vagina Monologues' Actor," April 2016

MadCap Review: Issue 3: "Seasonal," July 2015

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Paterson Performing Arts Development Council: Roadmap by Monica Prince, playwright-in-residence for Hamilton Arts Festival, full production, directed by Denise Womack, June 24, 2023

Paterson Performing Arts Development Council: For Colored Boyz on the verge of a nervous breakdown / when freedom aint enuff by Bryan-Keyth Wilson, staged virtual performance, directed by Monica Prince, June 25, 2021

White Whale Bookstore: How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem by Monica Prince, staged virtual reading, directed by Monica Prince, April 30, 2021

Susquehanna University's Dept. of Theatre: A Pageant of Agitating Women by Monica Prince and Anna Andes, staged virtual reading, directed by Anna Andes, October 9, 2020

Susquehanna University's Dept. of Theatre: A Pageant of Agitating Women by Monica Prince and Anna Andes, staged experimental workshop, directed by Anna Andes, February 27-March 1, 2020

The Vintage Theatre as part of the 2018 International Women's Voice Theater Festival: How to Exterminate the Black Woman by Monica Prince, staged reading, directed by Margaret Norwood, January 21, 2018, Lakewood, CO

The CutOut Theatre: Testify by Monica Prince, directed and choreographed by Thea and Avery Wigglesworth, December 4, 5, 10, 11, 2015, Brooklyn, NY

Photo credit: Colleen Zoller

Culture Rants

Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly: Issue 13: "How Do You Say That Word?: Choreopoems and Cultural Relevance," May 2018 

Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly: Issue 9: "To Be a Real Writer: Privileged Writing Advice," May 2017

Book Reviews

Santa Fe Writers Project Publisher's Blog:  “Make Your Descendants Proud: Ancestral Worship, Language Ownership, and Whose Stories We Tell in Rion Amilcar Scott’s The World Doesn’t Require You,” November 2019

Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly: “Motherhood as Existence in All We Can Hold: Poems of Motherhood edited by Elise Gregory, Emily Gwinn, Kaleen McCandless, Kate Maude, and Laura Walker,” October 1, 2016

Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly: “Trading Insults for Healing in The Dozen by Casey Rocheteau,” October 1, 2016

Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly: “Hide and Seek from the Top of the ferrous wheel: Book Review for Natalie Sharp’s ferrous wheel," July 1, 2016 

Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly: “Sipping Espresso with Pepper Girl: Book Review for Jonterri Gadson’s Pepper Girl,” July 1, 2016

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PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINATIONS:

2022: "My Uterus Responds to My Allegation That She's Depressed" in Limp Wrist

2021: "Even in Cartoons, We're Scared of the Black One" in Wildness

2017: "Seasonal" in MadCap Review

BEST OF THE NET NOMINATIONS:

2020: "Do Not Pray" in American Poetry Journal

2017: "Guide to Meeting the Woman Your Lover is Fucking" in MadCap Review

Photo credit: Monica Prince