Amanda Hudson

Author. Entrepreneur.

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Amanda is a writer and community builder. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of Net, her work has been published and honored by The Rumpus, Glimmer Train, Belt Magazine, Detroit Metro Times, and The Nation. She is a recent graduate of the Tin House Workshop. She has a Masters in English with an emphasis on fiction from Wayne State. She is a co-leader of the Detroit Writers Collective. Her stories center around place, family, and working class women.

Amanda co-founded Bamboo co-working. Bamboo creates space and community for creatives and startups. Bamboo’s impact has been recognized nationally.

She lives in Detroit with two kids, three dogs, and one husband. Subscribe to her substack “Midwest Humble”.

Books In Progress

  • Amanda is currently seeking representation for a book club novel that is a feminine fraud narrative, set in 1970’s Detroit and present day.

  • Amanda is currently working on a connected short story series set in the 2008 auto recession of Detroit, tackling themes of mothering, abandonment, and alcohol addiction.

Stories

Articles

Honors

  • Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train “Family Matters”

  • Pushcart Prize Nomination

  • Best of Net Nomination

  • The Nation, first place essay winner

Community

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It’s easy to feel that we’ve fallen out of connection with one another and with earth and with reason and with love. I mean: we have. But to read, to write, is to say that we still believe in, at least, the possibility of connection.
— George Saunders, A Swim in the Pond in the Rain

Contact

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