Our writers and our stories have been recognized by Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Norton Reader, Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and the Wigleaf Top 50. We have repeatedly had work shared on FlipBoard and on the WordPress Discover, and Pushcart Prize Contributing Editors have nominated our stories for Pushcart Prizes. We’ve been taught on uncountable college MFA syllabuses and enjoyed on podcasts, in articles, and at readings all over the world. We’re also lucky enough to have had the chance to publish some of our heroes too!
This page is our chance to celebrate some of the writers who have done something extra special for us.
WALL OF JELLYFISHERS
Ruth Ducaso (Luciany Aparecida) What Males Want: Made into a short film by Carambola Filmes
Ben Loory The Pot: Our sixth year anniversary story
A month’s worth of stories to celebrate our fifth anniversary!
Amber Sparks The Men in Paris Always Wanted: Our fourth year anniversary story
Kim Chinquee 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Microfictions: Our third year anniversary stories – all 12 of them! Including Psychiatrist – Wigleaf Top 50 2019
Kathy Fish Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild: Our second year anniversary story, and one of the most important pieces ever published. Best Small Fictions 2018. Best American Nonrequired Reading 2018. Nominated for a Pushcart by Pushcart Prize Contributing Editors. Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2018. Featured in the Norton Reader, 15th Edition
Randall Brown Disintegration: Our first year anniversary story, by one of our personal heroes.
Noa Covo Hunger: Best of the Net Finalist 2022
K-Ming Chang Extinction Best of the Net Finalist 2022
Samantha Xiao Cody Ravenous: Best of the Net 2020
Mercedes Lucero Model Survivors: Best of the Net 2019
Julie Cadman-Kim Edna: Best Small Fictions 2021
Umaima Munir Mouths of Brown Girls: Best Small Fictions 2020
Molly Gabriel XO Training: Best Small Fictions 2020
Santino Prinzi Upon Discovering That Cows Can Swim: Best Small Fictions 2019
Melissa Goode It Falls: Best Small Fictions 2018
Lori Sambol Brody I Want to Believe the Truth Is Out There: Best Small Fictions 2018 Finalist
Cathy Ulrich These Clouds Are Not the Same Clouds; This Sky Is Not the Same Sky: Best Small Fictions 2018 Semi-Finalist
K-Ming Chang Asymmetry: Best Microfiction 2021
Meghan Phillips When you first meet the telepath: Best Microfiction 2020
Archana Sridhar Rechargeable Moons: Best Microfiction 2020
Tara Isabel Zambrano A brief progression of natural disasters: Best Microfiction 2020
Myfanwy Collins Euthanasia: Best Microfiction 2019
Angela Readman We Make Our Own Beaches: Biffy 50 2019-2020
Anne O’Leary You Will: Biffy50 2018-2019
Damhnait Monaghan Neverlands: Biffy50 2018-2019
Di Jayawickrema Kidding, Kidding: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2021
Valerie Hegarty Lost and Found: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2021
Wei Ting Omakase: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2021
Ellen Rhudy Hostile Bodies: Wigleaf Top 50 2020
Helen McClory Il Uomo Morto: Wigleaf Top 50 2020
Meghan Phillips When you first meet the telepath: Wigleaf Top 50 2020
Davis MacMillan A Shock: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2020
Emily Weber The Booth: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2020
Exodus Oktavia Brownlow When It Gets Cold in the South, Only the Pumpernickel Survives: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2020
Melissa Goodrich Subject left blank – are you sure you want to send?: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2020
Michelle Ross Manhandle: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2020
Shivani Mutneja Ugly Husband: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2020
Steve Chang In Another Life I Used to Be a Dog: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2020
Kim Chinquee Psychiatrist: Wigleaf Top 50 2019
Nancy Au Kintsugi: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2019
Christy & Ryan Call What Causes Hailstones?: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2019
Chloe N. Clark The Intimacy of Objects: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2019
Kat Gonso Cleveland, 2009: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2019
Alys Jackson The Utter Absence of Everything: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2019
Ajay Patri A Song for the Monsters: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2019
Colleen Rothman The Takeover: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2019
Hugh Behm-Steinberg Goodwill: Wigleaf Top 50 2018
Geordie Williams Flantz Horses: Wigleaf Top 50 2018
Kathryn McMahon Crocodile Wife: Wigleaf Top 50 2018
Lincoln Michel Not Courtney Cox: Wigleaf Top 50 2018
Katherine Forbes Riley Speaks My Language: Wigleaf Top 50 2018
Kathy Fish Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2018
Lauren Becker Take and Give: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2018
Emi Benn The Book and the Baby: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2018
Kristina Ten Swell / Swollen: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2018
Cathy Ulrich When the Children Return: Wigleaf Top 50 2017
Elaine Chiew A Compendium of Chinese Ghosts, Part I and II: Wigleaf Top 50 2017
Anna Lea Jancewicz The Rabbits of the Underworld Find Innovation Distasteful: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2017
Anne Elizabeth Weisgerber F. Scott, Remember Me: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2017
J. Bradley Brick by Brick: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2017
Subashini Navaratnam Experimental Woman: Wigleaf Top 50 longlist 2017
Aubrey Hirsch Bad Boys: Featured on WordPress Discover
Erin Murphy Vaughn: Featured on WordPress Discover, nominated for a Pushcart by Pushcart Prize Contributing Editors
Anna Cabe See Me: Featured in Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction ed. Megan Giddings
Lesser Sung Heroes
This list is a few of the stories that didn’t win awards but should have, and the writers who pushed us forward as a magazine and made us believe we could be an important voice in this world, back when we were getting started out
Ashley Hutson – Disbelief
Beverly A. Jackson – I Remember
Kaj Tanaka – How To Tell a Story
K. B. Carle – Vagabond Mannequin
Lucy Durneen – What We Talk About When We Talk About Rockets in the Night
Neil Clark – Alfred Untold
Noa Sivan – Straightening Lines
Ysabelle Cheung – Ex / Re / Patriate
Guest-edited by Grace Loh Prasad – SIGN: A collection of stories by the Members of the Seventeen Syllables
An interview with guest editor Monet P. Thomas – The Big O Challenge
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