Lovely news to end the month with — ‘On Sunday, you wake up as a Firebird’, first published last summer in The Citron Review, has been longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2026! It’s always surprising and wonderful when a piece keeps finding new life a year after it first came out…
Smokelong Quarterly
Smokelong Quarterly Issue 92
Beyond thrilled to see my story, “The Altar of Saint Cindy,” republished in the brand new Issue Ninety-Two of SmokeLong Quarterly, as the first-place winner of the SmokeLong Workshop Prize! Thanks so much to Vestal Review, where it first appeared, and to SmokeLong for choosing it for the prize and giving it this beautiful new…
The Citron Review
I’m really excited to see my micro piece On Sunday, you wake up as a Firebird published in the summer edition of The Citron Review. Thanks so much to lovely editor JR Walsh, and to Smokelong Quarterly, where this piece began in the March Micro Marathon ’25, and then ended up winning the ‘up to 250-word…
The Cincinnati Review
I was over the moon that The Cincinnati Review published my micro piece The Meat Ration! Thanks so much to editor Kate Jayroe, and especially to Smokelong Quarterly, where this piece began in the March Micro Marathon ’25, and then somehow won the up to 400-word story competition at the end of the wonderfully fun…



