Writer
Michaela is an author and licensed book coach residing in New York City.
Inspired by true events, she writes for mothers and their teenage daughters.
She has published short stories and written numerous screenplays while living in Los Angeles for fifteen years. Currently she’s writing a novel with the working title Driving Lessons.
Calling Home by Michaela von Schweinitz is one of thirty-nine essays in True Stories Volume VI curated by Cami Ostman and Dana Tye Rally. Listen to the nineteen authors reading excerpts from their essays at the virtual book launch of True Stories. Curious to hear their entire stories? Order the book now through IngramSpark.
Published December 5, 2023 True Stories are also available at Village Books, Barnes & Nobles, Amazon, Goodreads or at your favorite local book store. ISBN 978-1958808214
Me Gusta, Oaxaca: A Love Letter by Michaela von Schweinitz is one of fifteen essays witten by writers who travelled to Oaxaca, Mexico in 2022.
The collection Oaxaca was published on October 3, 2023 by Sidekick Press.
Available at Village Books, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Goodreads or at your local book store.
ISBN 978-1-958808-20-7
Spanish Beach Vacation by Michaela von Schweinitz was selected by the Red Wheelbarrow Writers for their anthology Spring and All, a collection of uplifting stories.
Place your order at Village Books, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Goodreads or at your local bookstore. ISBN: 978-1-958808-12-2
Laura Rink from Red Wheelbarrow Writers introduces the authors of the anthology Spring and All, published by Sidekick Press. Laura was the editor for Spanish Beach Vacation. Enjoy Michaela’s reading of a three minute excerpt starting around minute 26:26.
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Red Wheelbarrow Writer Linda Lambert interviews Michaela von Schweinitz as one of the authors published in the anthology Spring and All.
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Michaela von Schweinitz is a member of Women’s Fiction Writers Association, National Association of Memoir Writer and New York Women in Film and Television.
First-Round Finalists
3rd place in Group 29 of 100-word Microfiction Challenge 2023. Advancing to create a story no longer than 100 words in just 24 hours based on a genre, action, and word assignment.
Michaela’s short play Birthday Cake was read by the wonderful actors of Naked Angels NYC – Tuesdays@9 on Zoom September 22, 2020.
Pat Russell – mom
Ron Palais – dad
Emily Hupp – daughter
Marcia Aufrecht – grandmother
While it was Tuesday night in New York City, it was Wednesday morning in Central Europe where Michaela von Schweinitz had been at the time of the reading. Below a screen shot of her in her mom’s kitchen at 4 AM.
Michaela’s feature screenplay Alice is Gone was a quarter finalist of the 2018 CineStory Feature Retreat and Fellowship.
Alice is Gone is about a pregnant crime novel writer who struggles to prove the innocence of her boyfriend when he is arrested for the murder of his former girlfriend.
Alice is Gone had three life readings by Naked Angels NYC on Tuesdays@9 at the legendary Theater 80 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. First on October 8 then on December 3, 2019 and for the last time on March 10, 2020. After that day New York City, the US and the entire world shut down.
