Michele Corriel
23 Snowcrest Drive
Belgrade, Montana 59714
mcorriel@imt.net




Michele Corriel is a freelance writer, an award-winning journalist and a humor columnist. Every year, for the last eleven years, I have garnered a First Place Award by the Montana Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for either my columns and/or for feature and in-depth writing.  I have also been recognized by the National Newspaper Association for my articles.

As a freelance writer I have had articles published in US Kids, Twist, The Big Sky Journal, Montana Magazine, Montana Living, The High Country Independent Press, The Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Bicycle Magazine, At Home, Fencelines, Outside Bozeman, Distinctly Montana, and others.  A middle grade short story THE PARTY was recently published in the literary magazine The Manzanita Quarterly. 

The University of Mississippi Press has included an interview I did with Williams Burroughs in their series “Literary Conversations,” which came out in hardcover and paperback in 2001.  Two of my pieces included in a book about World War II Veterans, called “Faces of Freedom,” which just came out in 2002.

I have also had poetry published in The Lower East Side Anthology, The Grey Rock Review, Cover Arts New York, and I have some poetry that was put in a book with others from the Fusion Arts Movement in New York City that is in the Whitney Museum’s Permanent Book Collection as well as in the Museum of Modern Art. 

I have been awarded the national honor of the Children’s Empowerment Award for a series I did on bullying in the schools.

I am also the Regional Advisor for the three-state area called the Big Sky Region of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.  My area of expertise is in writing for children.

During my years in New York City, I was executive editor and publisher of an arts monthly magazine in which I covered performance art, music, film, books and visual artists. 

With the power of words comes the ability to share an inner depth – whether it is of meaning, or of feelings, or to just place the reader where he or she needs to be.   As I have been writing for magazines and newspapers for the last 17 years