Publishing success from Meg Pokrass Workshops
Former workshop participants’ stories have been published in The New York Times, Smokelong Quarterly, Wigleaf, Jellyfish Review, Cincinatti Review, formercactus, Atticus Review, matchbook, and many more. Please browse the list below and read work of these very talented authors.
2019
Johanna Robinson
Runner-up for the Bath Flash Fiction Novella-In-Flash Award 2019 is Johanna Robinson for her novella-in-flash, Homing.
Michael Loveday writes in his Jury Report: “The flashes show subtle insight into human behaviour, are often genuinely moving, and the author has a way with closure—many flashes end with a lovely poise and delicacy.”
Please visit Johanna’s Website to stay up to date on this exciting news and the upcoming publication of this novella!
Kara Vernor
- New Flash Fiction Review: “How Not to Become an Expat” — Selected by Rilla Askew for Best Small Fictions 2019
Damhnait Monaghan
- Hippocampus Magazine: “How to Say Goodbye To Your Mother”
Sarah Salway
- Cincinnati Review: “Not Sorry” — Selected by Dan Chaon for Best Microfiction 2019
Julia Strayer
- Atticus Review: “Kangaroo Baby”
Valerie Fox
- Across the Margins: “Even the Christmas Tree was Nicer That Year” — Selected by Dan Chaon forBest Microfiction 2019
- Cafe Irreal: “Two Stories“
- Reflex Fiction: “Summer Party (How It’s Done)”
Mary Thompson
- Retreat West: “How Not to Feel” — Retreat West Competition Finalist
- Literary Orphans: “Her Name Was Lola”
- Spelk: “Ladybird”
- Reflex Fiction: “Strawberry Tarts and Serial Killers”
Leonora Desar
- Mid-American Review: “In this fantasy I went to live with my therapist”
- Lost Balloon: “Honey,” forthcoming
- Wigleaf: “Catherine,” forthcoming
- Sonora Review Online: “My Fake Brother,” forthcoming
Lori Sambol Brodi
- Wigleaf: “Hide and Seek.”
Tara Isabel Zambrano
Riham Adley
- Anti-Heroin Chic: “How to Find Your Wow Wow”
- Danse Macabre: “A Blind Bat’s Song”
- Literally Stories 2014: “Marlena Dietrich”
Steven John
- Ellipsis Zine: “Holly’s Party”
Patricia Quintara Bidar
- Train Lit Mag: “Train“
- Barren Magazine: “Pool Therapy”
- Litro: “Here’s How You Do It“
Helen Chambers
- The Drabble: “Map Reading“
Richard Bower
- Gingerbread House: “Snowglobe”
Mason Binkley
- Gingerbread House: “Transformations” — Best Small Fictions Nominations
- The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts: “Fantastic Flights,” forthcoming
- Barely South Review: “Switcheroo,” forthcoming
Kathryn Mcmahon
- The Temz Review: “Thunder in a Two-Eyed Storm”
Claudie Whitaker
- Writing Writers: “Domino Effect”
- Friday Flash Fiction: “Granny Wrangling”
Francine Witte
- Bending Genres: “Chair Boy”
Roberta Beary
- KYSO: “London Book Fair”
Sheree Shatsky
- KYSO: “Sole Man”
Annie Bien
- Mercurial Stories: “I Remember Dunia: The Earth”
- Flash Boulevard: “Tulku, the Apparition Body” and “Shadowing Kilimanjaro”
Kathryn Kulpa
- Milk Candy Review: “Warsaw Circus”
Linda Martin
- Potato Soup Journal: “Lost: One Colleague”
- Mental Papercuts: “Kangaroo” and “Peanut Head”.
Sahana Ahmed
- Potato Soup Journal: “A Memsahib Learns to Cook”
- Cogito – The Literary Journal: “Venus de Milo”
- Cogito – The Literary Journal: “Flipping Through a Magazine on a Boring Afternoon”
2018
Leonora Desar
- TSS: “Fire, Ocean”, — Selected by Dan Chaon for Best Microfiction 2019
- Smokelong Quarterly: “Aftershave and Soil”
- Reflex Fiction: “How to Bake an Earthquake” — Nominated for Best Small Fictions
- Atticus Review: “No One’s Boyfriend”
- Jellyfish Review: “Things You Need to Know About My Grandma”
- Barrelhouse Online: “Instagram Jesus”
- Hobert Pulp: “This is Saturday”
Epiphany Ferrell
- Slag Review: “Way Down Deep Inside” PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINATION
Sara Siddiqui Chansarka
- Crack the Spine: “I Wait” PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINATION
- Mojave Heart Review: “I Envy You, Skeleton”
- Xray Lit: “Not Forever Snowman”
Hannah Storm
- Cabinet of Heed: “How Not To Make a Birth Plan”
- Atticus Review: “Winners and Losers”
- Heroin Chic: “Shit Happens”
Jayne Martin
- Blue Fifth Review: “Blue Boy“
- Bending Genres: “Modern Living“
- formercactus: “The Elephant Roars”
- Gingerbread House: “TheWomanWhoMarried Her Clock”
- Connotation Press: “Predator”
Sarah Freligh
- The Cincinatti Review: “Any Body”
- Vestal Review: “A Kind of Magic”
- New Flash Fiction Review: Waxing or Waning
Tara Isabel Zambrano
- Atticus Review: “Snowstorm”
- XRAY Literary Magazine: “Bubblegum”
- Okay Donkey: “Feeding Time”
Sudha Balagopal
- Necessary Fiction: “Polka Dot Swimsuit”
- Former Cactus: “Close Encounters”
- Litro: “Ladies’ Tailor”
Jason Jackson
- Craft: “A Little Like Hope”
- The Casket of Fictional Delights: “Bombs, Lillies” — Contest finalist
- Reflex Fiction “Breaking the Bench”
Lori Sambol Brody
- Five:2:One “Moxie”
John Wheway
- BBC Sounds “Why I’m Not A Christian”
Patricia Quintara Bidar
- Flash Flood: “Honey”
- Citron Review: “Buckets”
- Former Cactus: “Mott”
- Spillwords: “For Doug Kershaw”
Francine Witte
- Pacifica Literary Review: “When Zac, 32, Strolls in IRL”
- Jellyfish Review: “How to Teach Your Cat to Talk”
- Glassworks: “Mother, Sitting in the Storm”
- Bending Genres: “In His Free Time”
Colleen Kearney Rich
- Matchbook: “Eye of Horus”
Valerie Fox
- The Cafe Irreal: “For the kiddos”
- Across the Margin: Three prose poems
- Literary Orphans: “Hey there Haruki, sorry to interrupt your run”
- An e-chapbook, The Real Sky, will be coming out from Bent Window Books.
Adam Lock
- Gravel: “Rat”
- Spelk: “With the Lights Out, It’s Less Dangerous”
Paul Beckman
- 100 Word Story: “You Gotta Know the Territory”
- London International Story Prize: “How to Practice Being a Private Eye”
Stephanie Hutton
- Five:2:One “Quads”
Steven John
- Cabinet of Heed: “Blueberry Muffins”
Traci Mullins
- Spelk: “You See Nothing”
Annie Bien
- 101 Stories: “Trophied Hunter”
Andrew Stancek
- “Amends”, “Pilgrameage” and “Goodbyes” in FRIGG
Frances Gapper
- Cafe Irreal: Issue 68, “Seven Stories”
- Spelk: “Sweetness”
- Ellipsis Zine 3: “Catnapped”
- Meniscus Journal: “Old Woman and Fox”
Mary Thompson
- Cafe Irreal: Issue 68 “When”
- Ghost Parachute: “When A Bear Met A Dear”
- Fictive Dream: “Are We There Yet?”
- Fiction Pool: “Searching the Web”
- Marauder Literary Journal: “This Man”
Diane Adams
- Queen Mob’s Teahouse: “Misfit Doc: Advice from Marchel DuChamp: Fountain (or Richard)”
Belinda Rimmer
- Heroinchic: “Domestic”
Riham Adly
- Soft Cartel: “The Queen of Cups Meets the Fool”
- Connotation Press: “Diamonds”
Diane Gillette
- 2 pieces: Mojave River Review
- Ghost Parachute: “Pilgramage”
- Reflex Fiction: “Desert Flower”
Janice Leagra
- Riggwater Press: “Counting Cars”
- Ghost Parachute: “Anthony Bordain’s Secret Fetish for Kitsch”
Iris N. Schwartz
- Foxglove Journal: “Nickled and Dimed”
- Spelk: “At Liberty”
- Communicators League: “Jingle”
- Communicators League: “Lunch, 1962”
Karen Schauber
- Bending Genres: “Losing It”
- Spillwords: “Granpas Not Feeling Well”
- Elipsis Zine: “What a Babe”
- Carpe Art: “Case Closed”
- Stereo Stories: “The Hidden Cache”
Richard Bower
- Enchanted Conversation: “The Firefly above the Mill“
- 101 Words: “What I Did Drunk“
- (mac)ro(mic): “Black Coffee Barista“