Isabella Connor

 Short Stories

• “The Castle in the Woods” — The Short Story Project

Articles

• “How a Pirate Shipwreck Near Cape Cod Became a Local Legend” — Vita Brevis, American Ancestors.

• “The Strange Case of Mercy Brown & the New England Vampire Panic” — The Historians Magazine, Edition 4: “Terrible Tales from Time”

Public History Projects

• Working Over Time (Guest Expert)

  • "Witches to Riches" — Working Right Now in Salem's Halloween Industry (Season 3, Episode 6). — 2021

  • “A Community in Chaos" - Puritan Ministers of the Salem Witch Trials (Season 2, Episode 3). — 2020

• House history writer & researcher — Historic Salem, Inc. — 2019 - present

• Bradstreet Project — 2018 - 2025

• Finding Anne Bradstreet Fellowship — 2018 - 2020

  • Anne & Simon: A Puritan Romance

  • Anne and the Trees

  • Following the Fellows: Week One

  • “Finding Anne Bradstreet” interactive app and game

Awards & Honors

• “The Castle of the Woods” — First place winner of Merrimack College’s 2019 “Write Now!” writing contest

• “The Castle in the Woods” — Ninth place winner of the The Short Story Project’s 2018 “My Best Story” contest