Today I have exciting news to share! I’m the runner-up for the 2012 Micro Award! I finished right behind the fantastic Bruce Holland Rogers. The Micro Award is given annually to the judges’ favorite piece of flash fiction published in the previous year. You can read all about it and the winner and finalists here.Continue reading “The Micro Award”
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Talking to Little Girls
Today, for the first time ever, I have a piece of writing in a newspaper! Long live print media! My article is called “Chatting with Princess Wannabe” and it’s in today’s edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The article is a response to Lisa Bloom’s Huffington Post piece, “How to Talk to Little Girls“. In herContinue reading “Talking to Little Girls”
Stripped & PANK “Science & Fiction” Special Issue
Happy New Year! Here are a couple of literary things to help you start 2012 off right! First, there’s a new anthology out called Stripped: A Collection of Anonymous Flash. I’ve got a story in it, alongside Sherrie Flick, Randall Brown, Michael Martone, Roxane Gay, Devan Goldstein, Kathy Fish, Ethel Rohan, J Bradley, Amber Sparks,Continue reading “Stripped & PANK “Science & Fiction” Special Issue”
Cool Things!
Two things: First, big news! My short story collection, Why We Never Talk About Sugar, is going to be released this spring by Big Wonderful Press. The collection has 13 stories in it. Some of them have been published in places like PANK, Annalemma, Hobart, Vestal Review and Whiskey Island Magazine. And others are brandContinue reading “Cool Things!”
The Reprint Issue 5
There’s a new issue of The Reprint online today. I was really honored to be able to write the introduction to this fantastic issue. Contributors include Len Kuntz, Lauren Spohrer, Corey Zeller and Jennifer Knox, among others. You should go read it right now and be amazed by their work. When conceiving my introduction, IContinue reading “The Reprint Issue 5”
New Story: Albert Arnold Gore
This month, a story of mine is being featured as American Short Fiction‘s web exclusive. There’s a also an interview with me on their blog. “Albert Arnold Gore” is the latest in my series of counterfactual biographies. It’s actually three mini-stories that make up one complete story. Before this one, all of these stories hadContinue reading “New Story: Albert Arnold Gore”
[sic] Implied
A list of (not so) descriptive phrases from Courtney Stodden’s Twitter feed you probably want to avoid using in your fiction: Juicy sun Enticingly refreshing Exotically crawling Delicious flick Sensually stacked day Tone lil’ tush Pleasurable pool Boisterously bounce Sensual sightings Soft-ticklish boa-feathers Tantalizing wear Desirable-dusky-dress Wondrous bed Compellingly connect Prowling mysteriously Bodily breakfast Drippin-slippery-mudContinue reading “[sic] Implied”
New Story: “Rules for Living in a Simulation”
You may remember that I spent my Italian honeymoon doing three things in equal proportions: eating carbs, hanging out with my new husband honeymoon-style, and reading Brian Greene’s The Hidden Reality. I assumed I’d come back to the states filled with inspiration for stories set in Italy. These stories would be brimming over with history,Continue reading “New Story: “Rules for Living in a Simulation””
“Elysian” up at The Reprint
This month I have a story reprinted at The Reprint, an on-line journal that helps stories initially in print find new readership. Thanks to Brian Oliu re-mixing an essay of mine last quarter, this puts me in back to back issues of this fine magazine. My story is in good company, alongside xTx, Roxane Gay,Continue reading ““Elysian” up at The Reprint”
New Story: John Sevier
Today there’s a new story from my series of counterfactual biographies up at The Emprise Review. I have to send some thanks out to Amber Sparks for being the perfect history nerd for this story. This one’s called “John Sevier” and it’s about the one and only Governor of the lost state of Franklin. FranklinContinue reading “New Story: John Sevier”
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