Accolades and Awards

Qiu’s work has been recognized through fellowships, prizes, and multiple awards for both poetry and prose.

  • Brooklyn Poets Fellowship, Brooklyn Poets (Fall 2025)

  • Marginalia Chapbook Prize, Semi-Finalist, Small Harbor Publishing

  • Charlotte Street Foundation Arts Writing Intensive, Charlotte Street Foundation

  • Thomas J. O’Donnell Award in Creative Nonfiction

  • Kenneth Rockwell Award

  • The C.L. Clark Writing Award (multiple years)

  • The William Herbert Carruth Memorial Poetry Contest Winner (multiple years)

  • The Henry Matthew Weidner Essay Award Winner (multiple years)

  • The John F. Eberhardt Excellence in Writing

Performances

Paddy Qiu has shared their poetry across academic, community, and arts venues, with performances that foreground diasporic memory, queer Asian American identity, and the intersections of health and storytelling. Recent readings include:

  • Bodies in Motion: the poet in diaspora — Artspace (Indigena Collective), April 13, 2025

  • Tea Table AAPI Arts Magazine Launch Party — North Carolina Asian Americans Coming Together, August 31, 2024

  • 2024 Asian Art Showcase: Fluorescence — CRANE Collective, North Carolina State University, March 29, 2024

  • Poetic Underground Birthday Showcase — Poetic Underground: Spoken Word in Kansas City, February 8, 2023

Poetic Underground (2023)

CRANE Collective (2024)

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