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 into the world — thank you to everyone at Wigleaf, and to Smokelong Quarterly, where it won the Smokelong March Micro Madness 250-word story competition in 2025, and JR Walsh at Citron for believing in it first!