My flash memoir chapbook, Everywhere, Tony Danza, was published by CutBank Books, the press for CutBank Literary Journal, the magazine out of the University of Montana’s MFA program.
This good news was just what I needed, and I’ve dedicated this chap to the memory of Louise.
The amazing Lydia Conklin chose my story, “Like Wormwood on the Lips,” as the winner of the Peatsmoke 2023 Summer Fiction Contest.
Read More“In her story, “Circle in the Sand,” Wendy Oleson takes the most mundane scene of shopping in an out-of-town grocery store and spins it into something frightening and resonant by using a unique point of view, and a startling encounter in the cereal aisle!”
Read MoreThanks to the Granum Foundation for naming me to their 2022 longlist!
Read MoreNight Vision by Anna Gates Ha
(Don't) Remember Me Like This by Cyn Nooney
Girl on the Bike, Boy in Dayton by John Bensink
Girl in the Snow by Wendy Oleson
I Chose the Pencil by Richard Schwarzenberger
Sweets from Strangers by Tian Yi
We Don't Boil Babies by Alicia Dekker
Salt City Runaway by Gillian O'Shaughnessy
In Andromeda by Jonathan Cardew
Evening Clay by Josh Wagner
As Solid as an Ashtray and Emits More Smoke by Edie Meade
Grandma Kim at Forty-Five by Chloe Seim
Muscle and Might by Bob Thurber
Mi Porvenir by A.J. Rodriguez
Rabbit, Rabbit by Sally Toner
Account for What You Have by Alexandra Blogier
Marriage Market by Susan Wigmore
If This Were Tracy Island by Marissa Hoffmann
Oil Drills by Lauren Weber
Thursday Night at Lucky's Liquor Store by Shareen Murayama
When crime scene analyst Paul Holes begins investigating a man’s homicide that took place in a surprising location, each clue he uncovers adds to a strange and confounding mystery that will become the most unusual case of his career.
Read MoreWhat was more astonishing, for me, was that the stories in Sarahland opened up possibilities for how to live. It was a gift to find myself in these pages. Sam Cohen and I corresponded via email about her collection. I’m grateful to her for answering my questions about her process and what drives her as an artist.
Read MoreBrooklyn North is available on Audible!
I was fortunate to be the story producer for this important project. I can’t overstate how much I learned in the process.
Read MoreApril 24 – 26, 2020
In this generative, prompt-based workshop inspired by examples of contemporary, genre-defying work, you’ll find fairy tales, folktales, fables, fabulism, and the fantastic. Bring your non-realist narratives and be ready to break poetic lines like branches, stirring leaves and dropping cones. We’ll also construct sturdy blocks of prose strong enough for building houses and impervious to gusts of wolf. Come to play. Flounder and fly and forget about failure.
Want to learn more about Bending Genres Monthly Workshops? Click here!
I’m grateful to be a recipient of a 2019 Artist Trust GAP (Grant for Artist Projects) Award for Washington-based artists!
This is the best kind of surprise! I’m delighted and grateful, and particularly indebted to Crystal Gibbons, founding editor-in-chief of Split Rock Review where “Dirt” first appeared. The labor-of-love crew at Sundress Publications works so hard to make this anthology happen—huge thanks to them—and thank you to poetry judge James Crews for connecting with my poem!
Read all the amazing poems, essays, and stories here!
