Milla van der Have

Awards

• 2020 - Special Commendation by judge Fiona Benson in the EAL category of the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition for my mother asks me how to leave my father.

• 2013 - New Millennium Writings Fiction Award for Our Lady Of Broken Dreams.

• 2009 - Savannah Bay Silver Stories Audience Award (popular vote) for Ragtime.

• 2006 - Winner Poetry Contest American Book Center (Amsterdam). 

Residencies & Festivals

• 2020-  Encuentro Internacional de Poesía en Milpa Alta (online festival based in Mexico)

• 2020 -  Encuentro Internacional de Poetas de Zamora, Mich. México (online festival) 

• 2017 & 2019 - Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerig, Ireland

• 2014 - Writer's Residency in St. Mary's Art Centre, Virginia City, Nevada

• 2013 - Martha’s Vineyard Writer’s Residency in Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard. 

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Interviews

• Micro-interviews with 6 poets in Mud Season Review

• Speaking of Marvels

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ABOUT ME

My name is Milla van der Have. I wrote my first poem when I was 16, during a physics class and I’ve been at it ever since. I started out writing in Dutch, but in 2008 I switched to English.

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I write poetry and short stories. I like a well-told story, but not an easy one. As a reader as well as a writer, I like it when not all is revealed. Also, I look for twists, be it in plot, perspective or language.

My work has been published in literary magazines and anthologies. Also I have published 2 chapbooks: Ghosts of Old Virginny in 2015 and Avistamiento de ballenas (Whale watching) in 2021.

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Publications

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• Constellate Magazine

• Menacing Hedge

• The Dialogist

• Chestnut Review

• The Maynard

• Ninth Letter

• Otis Nebula

• Inflectionist Review

• Kestrel

• Raleigh Review

• Sky Island Journal

• Cherry Tree

• After the Pause

• Whale Road Review

• Bird's Thumb

• Small Orange

• The Timberline Review

• Heartwood

• SWWIM everyday

• Apple Valley Review

• Mud Season Review

• By & By poetry

• Peacock Journal

• The Cape Rock

• Stirring

• Foliate Oak

• ​Rust+Moth

• Wolves Magazine

• Hartskill Review

• San Pedro River Review

• Hermes Poetry Journal

• Crab Fat Magazine

• The Meadow

• Apeiron Review

• The Kentucky Review

• Word Riot

• Right Hand Pointing

• Off The Coast

• Dressing Room Poetry Journal

• Black Fox Literary Magazine

• Lindenwood Review

• The Second Genesis

• New Millennium Writings, Fiction Award

• Crannóg

• Bare Hands Poetry

• Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure (Smithsonian)

• Verse Wisconsin

• Etopia Press

• Litro Magazine

• Orange Quarterly

• Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure

• Full of Crow Quarterly

• Pirene’s Fountain

• Halfway Down The Stairs

• Poetry Quarterly Winter Edition

• Third Wednesday

• Midwest Literary Magazine 

• The Wilderness House Literary Review

• Caper Literary Journal

• The Loch Raven Review