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Dear Reader,

It’s been a while! I hope you’re well. I seem to have fallen into a hole called “I wrote my first play and it took so much out of me that I shut down creatively”. It was an exciting and rewarding experience to write and edit it in the space of a few months. In January 2020 I had the luck to participate with my group in a stage reading at the National Theatre, where the full play got its first audience. A whirlwind!

There has been some wonderful news that I haven’t yet shared here (although I keep my honors and publications pages regularly updated):

my microfiction  “Anatomical Venus Girl”, (first published in Milk Candy Review in April 2019) has been a Best Microfiction 2020 winner! 

my flash fiction “A Catalogue of Temporary Objects” (first published in X–R-A-Y Literary Magazine in September 2018) was included in The Wigleaf Top50 Very Short Fictions 2019!

also, my flash fiction “Endling” (first published in Flapperhouse in March 2018) was in the same longlist!

I’m thankful to the magazine editors for nominating me! You can read the stories in the links above.

There is always more coming up, so watch this space!

Thank you for visiting,

I have a very short piece up at Wigleaf. There’s also a 2 1/2 question interview as a post-reading palate cleanser.

What is Flash Fiction?

If you’ve been writing for a while, you already know what flash fiction is, but if you’re somewhat new to writing, you may not have heard of this liberating form. Man, are you gonna love it! My students do! Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.com Flash fiction is very short fiction – between 50-750 words, and it goes by a few different names, micro-fiction and short-shorts. It embraces extreme…

I have two micro stories up at Wigleaf this week. Read “Taxonomy” and “Provenance.”

“A Foreign Place” + Postcard + Interview up at Wigleaf

I’ve got a new story up at Wigleaf today. A friend described it as “odd, quiet, and sad” which sounds about right. There’s also an odd postcard and a brief interview up on the site. Wigleaf is celebrating its 10th year as a brilliant venue for flash fiction and the publisher of the yearly Wigleaf Top 50 (that generously and graciously does not include their own published stories). Kudos to Scott…

Quiet year on the writing front. Expect more words in 2018!

Fiction:

Wigleaf - “Memento Mori” (January)

Nonfiction:

“My Sister’s Labyrinth” in Eclectica

Eclectica Magazine published my my story “My Sister’s Labyrinth” today. It’s a companion story to “The Opal Maker” published by The Collagist and which was a finalist for Eckleburg Review’s Franz Kafka prize, and was also listed as one 2015’s top 50 by Wigleaf.  I like to imagine that this woman, after leaving her first sister’s house, decided to go in search of her other siblings and came to her…