AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS

2021. Historical Fiction short term fellowship. Newberry Library. Chicago, Illinois

AWARDS

2021. Individual Artists grant. City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special events (DCASE).

Off-Campus Writers' Workshop. Flash Fiction. 2nd place for "Penicillin"

Interviews and PUBLICATIONS
March 30, 2026: "History in the Margins" Women's History Month with Pamela Toler
https://www.historyinthemargins.com/2026/03/30/talking-about-wo…th-della-leavitt/

April 9, 2026 Interview with Christine Sneed, "Bookish" substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/christinesneed/p/vivians-decision?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

April 12, 2026 Ashley Hasty Book List
https://www.hastybooklist.com/blog/author-interview-della-leavitt

April 16, 2026 Turn the Page podcast - Interview with Jenn Jordan, Syosset Public Library, New York
http://turnthepage.blubrry.net/2026/04/16/turn-the-page-episode-398d/

April 27, 2026 Bookshelf substack - Off Campus Writers' Workshop
https://offcampuswritersworkshop.substack.com/p/bookshelf-spotlights-vivians-decision

May 24, 2026 Interview on WGN Radio, After Hours with Chicago Tribune's Rick Kogan

"Hannah's Pledge"

Leavitt, Della (June, 2024). "Hannah's Pledge." In Feisty Deeds: Daring Women across Six Centuries. Women's Fiction Writers Association.

"Repeal!"

Leavitt, Della. (2021). "Repeal!" (pp. 99-107).

In Turning Points: An Anthology from Members of the Off Campus Writers’ Workshop. Windy City Publishers.

"The Return of the 17-Year Locusts"

Leavitt, Della. (2017). Honorable Mention. Prose. "The Return of the 17-Year Locusts," In Word of Art 3: InPrint Writers, Rockford, IL.

"On Squirrels & Other Interlopers"

Leavitt, Della (April, 2023). "On Squirrels & Other Interlopers" (pp. 95-103). In Meaningful Conflicts: The Art of Friction. Windy City Publishers.

"The Week That Was"

Leavitt, Della. (2019). "The Week That Was" (pp. 100-105). In J. Rehak (ed.) A Reason to Be Here. A collaborative novel from the Off Campus Writers' Workshop. Windy City Publishers.

"Chicago's writing community: Nurturing new voices."

Leavitt, Della (2023). "Chicago's writing community: Nurturing new voices." About Write. https://ocww.info/About-Write?p=chicago-writing-community-nurturing-new-voices

PUBLICATIONS CONTINUED:

Leavitt, Della. (May, 2022). "The Necklace" in FreeFlashFiction. https://freeflashfiction.com/fiction/the-necklace/

Leavitt, Della. (October, 2020). Chicago Literary Hall of Fame guest blogger. https://chicagoliteraryhof .org/blog/entry/persistence-at-the-3rd-annual-virtual-storystudio -conference

Leavitt, Della (August, 2020). GameChangers documentary film. Personal essay contest winner. https://www.gamechangers.film/contest "Remembering the Marshall vs. New Trier match-ups."

Leavitt, D.R. (2017). "Where I am from," Vitae Scholasticae: The Journal of Educational Biography. Special Issue: Family Methodology. 34(2), 28-31.

Leavitt, D.R., Palius, M.F., Babst, R.D, Donegan, R., Lampkin, J.L, Smith, M., & Whitford, P.A. (2013).

Teachers create a Professional Learning Community to be a place of their own. Mid-Atlantic Education Review, 1(1)3-16.

Leavitt, D. R. & Washington, E. N. (2013). “I teach like you are all gifted:" Leading lowest-track students to become confident mathematics learners. In A. Cohan & A. Honigsfeld (Eds.), Breaking the mold of education: Innovative and successful practices for student engagement, empowerment, and motivation (4th in a series) pp. 171-178. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Leavitt, D. R. (2010). Inquiry as Stance: Practitioner Research for the Next Generation, Book review. i.e: inquiry in education, 1(2), Article 7. Retrieved from: http://digitalcommons.nl.edu/ie/vol1/iss2/7

Leavitt, D.R. (2010). (Unpublished dissertation). "Meek, but Not Weak!" A Resilient Black Female Mathematics Teacher Composes a Purposeful Life. University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education. Proquest, UMI-3417385.