Thank you to The Worcester Review and Carolyn Oliver, Editor, for nominating “Assiduous” for a Pushcart Prize!
Assiduous
Thank you to Carolyn Oliver, Editor of The Worcester Review, and the fiction team for including “Assiduous” in Volume XLIV, Numbers 1 & 2.
Cover art by Migdalia Chico
There’s back cover art, too!
Saturday Mornings
Thank you to Jeff Streeby for including “Saturday Mornings” in Open: Journal of Arts and Letters.
Premonition
Thank you to James Tate Hill for featuring this flash on Monkeybicycle.
How to Tell a Love Story
Thank you, X-R-A-Y, for publishing “How to Tell a Love Story. ” Special thanks to Jennifer Greidus, Claire Hoppel, and Crow Norlander for selecting this one, and working on it with me.
Transubstantiation (reprint) in Miramichi Flash
Thank you to Karen Shauber and everyone at Miramichi Flash for reprinting “Transubstantiation.”
Five Steps Away
Five South has published my flash fiction “Five Steps Away” in The Weekly. Thank you, Kristen Simental, and everyone at Five South. From their about page: “Five South is an online, biannual, literary journal where storytelling counts. Whether it’s in prose or poem form, we want to get to the meat of it. We like stories about people, places, memories, things that make us feel connected.”
Swans Don't Always Sing
Popshot Quarterly has published my flash fiction “Swans Don’t Always Sing” in the Family Issue, out now. Thanks to Matilda Battersby, editor, for publishing it alongside the many other lovely authors and gorgeous illustrations. Click on the image for a sneak peak of the issue.
cover illustration by Sophie Standing
From the Popshot website:
POPSHOT 33 – THE FAMILY ISSUE
The Family Issue is a collection of vivid writing, exploring what it means to be a family today. It cuts deep, with tales of devastating family secrets, pseudo-siblings, robots who want to be loved, and ‘family trees’ which grow beating human hearts.
Words by: Jackie Martin; Polly East; Wendy BooydeGraaff; Gresham Cash; Maggie Stephenson; Catriona Innes; Helen MacDonald; Romina Ramos; Eva Rivers; Kay Sandry; JL Bogenschneider; Danny Beusch; James McDermott; Leanne Su; Sage Tyrtle; Colette Coen; C. E. Janecek; Liam Hogan; Cecilia Knapp; Noel O’Regan; John Gosslee; Lorelei Bacht; Theo Beecroft; Gráinne Tobin; Zosia Koptiuch; Sarah Fuller; Katja Knežević.
Illustrations by: Beth Ashley; Dafna Barzilay; Louise Billyard; Jenny Booth; Clare Davis; Marian Femenias-Moratinos; Cinta Fosch; Julia Galotta; Sami Henry; Ida Henrich; Andrea Iris; Kasia Kozakiewicz; Valentina Leoni; Jon Lim; Emily Louka; Izabela Olesinska; Hayley Patterson; Irina Pavlova; Yannick Scott; Meital Shushan; Sophie Standing; Maggie Stephenson; Kate Styling; Karolina Sroka; Martha White; Dawei Wang.
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A Dystopia in Decades
Thank you, Splonk, for publishing “A Dystopia in Decades” in Issue 5. The graphics in this magazine are so very fun, as you can see by the issue cover above. I love the name of this publication—it’s Irish, and splonk [splanc, noun fem. flash, spark. A splaincín (derived from splanc) is a spirited, fiery female] suits the mood for this story well. Thank you to Adam Trodd and the Splonk team for selecting this story, and for the spot-on image of those boots.
Teacher
Thank you to flash fiction editors Mark Jednaszewski and Sarah Walker, and editor-in-chief Eileen Cleary, for including “Teacher” in the latest issue of Lily Poetry Review.
End of Monroe
I’m thrilled that this piece found a home in CutBank for the weekly online series.
La La La La
Gone Lawn, where “misfit and daring works and surrealist and symbolist works, for example, are prized”, has published “La La La La” in their latest issue.
Chain of Thought
Meniscus Literary Journal has published a flash fiction of mine called “Chain of Thought” in their latest issue. It’s available to read online or download to your e-reader. Thanks to Paul Hetherington for choosing to include this story.
Crossing
Today, matchbook has published my flash fiction “Crossing” about swimming in Lake Michigan. The journal is beautiful, modern and spare, as is the writing in it. Please click below to read it, and the other pieces.
Ilanot Review TOXIC issue launch
The Ilanot Review is doing a virtual launch for their TOXIC issue, featuring contributor readings . I’ve got a reading of “Ornamental Scarves” up, and several other contributors are there, too. Thank you to Marcela Sulak, Managing Editor, Karen Marron, Production Editor, and Rachel Twersky for #IlanotReviewToxicLaunch.
Ornamental Scarves
The Ilanot Review has published “Ornamental Scarves” in their TOXIC issue, up now. Thank you to Marcela Sulak who writes about this issue’s theme "The poems, essays, flash, graphics and stories gathered here are stubborn acts of rebellion against dehumanizing institutions and power structures. They are acts of hope and apology to our planet. They are warnings both loud and quiet. They direct our eye to small beauties and shine a light on dark underbellies.” Read her whole note here, and the rest of the issue here, and “Ornamental Scarves” by clicking on the image below.
So It Goes Journal Release Event
So It Goes: The Literary Journal of The Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library is releasing the 2020 issue, Civic Engagement, on Saturday, October 3, 11 AM Eastern. I'm pleased to participate by answering a question about my historical flash fiction “A Run on Sausages,” about the events that took place on Women’s Day in Iceland on October 24, 1975.
Click on the image to register for the free, virtual event, or to buy copies of the journal.
To read more about this issue, and its contributors, see the editor’s note below:
Thank you to editor-in-chief Meredith Cummings for selecting my piece for inclusion, and to all the So It Goes editors, designers, proofreaders of this journal, and to Julia Whitehead, CEO and Founder, who will emcee the event.
So It Goes Journal Release Event
On October 3, 2020, at 11 AM, So It Goes will be celebrating Banned Books Week at the Kurt Vonnegut Library and Museum with a virtual release party. I’ll be participating in the festivities. I’m happy to have a historical flash fiction piece published in the journal. Register for the event here.
Lists
Across the Margin published “Lists” today, a flash piece I first drafted in January. My writing group felt it fit these pandemic times, though that wasn’t my intent. I wonder how other readers see it.
Gun Republic
Jellyfish Review publishes some of the most exciting flash fiction out there, and I’m so happy to be a part of the Committing Crimes special issue.
Click the above image to read the story. Then read a few more (especially Edna’s Boy by Julie Cadman-Kim)—if you dare.