4/24 Featured author at the Newburyport Literary Festival
3/24 Short story collection “We Are Concerned With Your Methods” longlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Literary Awards Program
3/24 Featured author at the Lexington Book Festival
1/24 Guest on the 7am Novelist podcast “Revision: Breaking Down Your Book to Build it Back Up with Hesse Phillips and Sara Johnson Allen”
1/24 Guest on the 7am Novelist podcast “How to Find Writing Space with Sara Johnson Allen, Cara Wood, and Joanna Rakoff”
12/23 Recipient of a Tadler Fellowship for the Humanities for the spring 2024 semester
12/23 WBUR Cognoscenti “Best-of-lists are great, but have you heard of this?” by Hannah Harlow
12/23 “Writer in Your Neighborhood” series at the Salem Athenaeum
12/23 Reading at Black Lawrence Press writers at City Light Bookstore in San Francisco
12/23 “Planting Roots and Crossing Borders in Sara Johnson Allen’s Down Here We Come Up” on Charlotte Readers Podcast
11/23 In Conversation with Rebecca Turkewitz for Authors at Allagash at Allagash Brewery in Portland, Maine
11/23 Creative writing instructor for “Write Wilmington” series.
11/23 Ep. 173: Sara Johnson Allen on the Road to Down Here We Come Up, a Propulsive, Provocative Debut on A Bookish Home Podcast
11/23 Down Here We Come Up on SPD Fiction Bestsellers September-October
11/23 In Conversation with Alena Dillon at The Book Shop of Beverly Farms
10/23 Brooklyn Book Festival
10/23 In Conversation with Namrata Patel at the Coolidge Corner Library
9/23 Black Lawrence Press Writers at the Hudson Valley Writers Center
9/23 “Intersections are Everything: On Sara Johnson Allen’s Down Here We Come Up: A Review by Jessica Cory” in Tupelo Quarterly
9/23 “With a Wilmington-area setting, NC author pens a remarkable debut” in the Wilmington Star News
9/23 Poets & Writers Magazine New and Noteworthy Books Sept./Oct. Issue
9/23 Down Here We Come Up on SPD Fiction Bestsellers July-August
9/23 Reading with JoeAnn Hart at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck
9/23 Author Talk at the Ipswich Public Library
8/23 Interview on Good Folk podcast
8/23 Southern Review of Books: Review by Chaney Hill
8/23 CoastLine Interview at WHQR “Sara Johnson Allen on writing her first novel and how place shapes us”
8/23 Q&A: Exploring the North-South Rural Divide in Sara Johnson Allen’s New Book, “Down Here We Come Up” Interview with Olivia Weeks in The Daily Yonder
8/23 The Omnivorous Reader “Heavy Mettle” Review by Anne Blythe in O’Henry Magazine and Pine Straw Magazine
8/14 The 7am Novelist “Passages Sara Johnson Allen on Down Here We Come Up”
7/23 Review by Jane Ward in Mom Egg Review
7/23 New Fiction and Non-Fiction (And an Anthology) On Our Radar from Mom Egg Review
6/23 Summer Reading List 2023 from Deep South Magazine
8/23 Down Here We Come Up forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press.
12/22 Storyteller at Fish Tales “Ancestors” on The Gloucester Stage
6/22 Down Here We Come Up awarded the 2022 Big Moose Prize from Black Lawrence Press.
4/22 “We Are Concerned With Your Methods” runner up in Third Coast Magazine Fiction Contest
1/22 MacDowell residency granted for manuscript revisions
5/21 “Baby Ben in the River” published in Reckon Review.
3/20 “March of April” published in PANK Magazine’s Issue 15.
9/19 Read with local writers on the opening night of the Salem Literary Festival.
6/19 Co-directed the fifth annual L’ATELIER Writers’ Retreat and Workshop in the Loire Valley in France.
5/19 Panelist “Weird and Wonderful Ways to Publication” at the Stockholm Writers Festival
5/19 Winner of the Stockholm Writers Festival First Pages Prize.
1/19 “The Pastor and His Good Daughters” published in The Eunoia Review.
1/19 Recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth George Foundation artistic grant.
11/18 MacDowell Fellow during the Fall 2018 residency period.
10/18 Awarded an Honorable Mention in the Very Short Fiction Contest at Glimmer Train.
10/18 Presented conference sessions “Defining Your Identity as a Writer: Using the Artist's Toolbox to Articulate Your Vision” and “The Power of Mixing Media: Adding texture and originality to your writing” at the L’ATELIER Writers Boston Intensive.
6/18 “The Reader in the Square” published in the SmokeLong Quarterly 15th anniversary competition issue.
6/18 Co-directed the fourth annual L’ATELIER Writers’ Retreat and Workshop in the Loire Valley in France.
1/18 Awarded the 2018 Marianne Russo Award for Emerging Writers by the Key West Literary Seminar for a novel-in-progress http://www.kwls.org/news-updates/2018-emerging-writer-award-winners/
12/17 “Tonight in San Pedro” published in The Bangalore Review