First Place: Raising Rabbits by F.E. Choe 2nd Place: Burn It All Down by Karen Jones 3rd Place: Casual Pinch, 1992 by Alice Kaltman Raising Rabbits by F.E. Choe Will These Elevator Doors Never Open by Robert Clementson Hope by Rebecca Donley Aquatic Mammal by Shayla...
Co-Editor of the New W. W. Norton Flash Fiction America Anthology The newest installment in W. W. Norton’s popular flash fiction anthology series, Flash Fiction America, will be released on February 14. Edited by James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne, this...
Raising Rabbits Will These Elevator Doors Never Open Hope Aquatic Mammal Anchorite A Strange, Silent Relief My husband said, keep baking bread Self-Solemnization Burn It All Down Casual Pinch, 1992 Monday Bath Cuckoo Drapes Coexistence A Lovely Light Pelican Hold Fast...
Raising Rabbits Will These Elevator Doors Never Open Regrets: About Shoes You Did Not Buy Hope Lost and Found Aquatic Mammal Anchorite A Strange, Silent Relief Before The Wave Gianni Appleseed My husband said, keep baking bread Self-Solemnization Lights in the...
“There is always a wicked secret, a private reason for this,” a line from W.H. Auden’s “Twelve Songs, VIII” came to mind when reading Sheila O’Connor’s Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions (Rose Metal Press, 2019), an elegant and ambitious melding...
1st Place: Tiny Little Goat by Jasmine Sawers Admittedly, I am a sucker for a funny/sad story that succeeds. It’s a rare beast, as the line between comedy and tragedy is a treacherous one indeed. In “Tiny Little Goat”, one of the shorter stories on the shortlist, I...
Attaboy LouisMother’s KeeperBeforeWhat Will We Do With All This GriefThe Good HoursShoreNo Rhyme Nor ReasonCastawaysA Middle Finger Flipped on a School BusHorse PoorFlight PathOut from Behind a RockMore Than an Acquired TasteBoyUndercurrentsAll You’ve Heard is...
BreadAttaboy LouisMother's KeeperBeforeViva PeachesJohnny and Janie Cross CountryWhat Will We Do With All This GriefHere, HereafterWhy We Will Always Love You, Vera KnightvilleBulletThe Good HoursShoreNo Rhyme Nor ReasonOnly Sky Above and BelowOne Bullet for AnnieThe...
1st Place: It's Still There by Robert McBrearty This is a superb metafiction; a very short story about very short stories themselves, but a story in itself, too. ~Rumaan Alam 2nd Place: Fusion by Diane Kraynak This taut (and funny) story understands that few things...
It sounds like you’re always writing! How did you decide what stories to put in this chapbook? Were there any that you took out? I officially started working on Breaking Points in Jonathan Cardew’s Bending Genres workshop when I wrote the first story in this...
1st: Place: Party in the O.R. by Lannie Stabile Runner-Up: Through the Window by Susan Wigmore Runner-Up: Be Prepared by JR Walsh Shortlisted Titles and Writers sea hungry by Alvin Park Exotic by Ina Roy-Faderman Spit Joined by Tom Weller Unwound by Tiffany Grimes If...
We Sleep Within the Vast Sadness of the MountainSalty FeetDark CrescentHow Boys Get Their WingsLairFish FolkMY ANALOGThe Waking SpellHome Remedies Or: A Guide for the AfflictedFusionthe silk farmerNettlesSkin BeetlesGhost SweatIt's Still ThereCold ComfortThe...