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Literary Journals: Work
Flash Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
and Poetry
LITERARY JOURNALS
Visiting Lenin’s Tomb
Winner: Bath Flash Fiction Award
October 2024
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Elephant
Bending Genres
Issue Forty
August 2024
Yellow Straw, Red Straw
Fractured Lit
(Reprint: first published by Reflex Fiction)
June 2024
My Big Fat Spanish Funeral
The Four Faced Liar
Issue 03
December 2024
Available from The Four Faced Liar
Back At The House
Shortlisted
National Flash Fiction Day NZ
June 2024
August on Island of Evia: Forest Fires
Splonk
Issue 11, April 2024
Entanglement
Quantum Shorts
in partnership with Scientific American
(Finalist: Flash Fiction Contest 2024)
The Story You'll Never Tell
Fractured Lit
March 2024
Significant Other
Fictive Dream
Flash Fiction February 2024
(Shortlisted for SmokeLong Quarterly’s Summer Fiction Contest)
https://fictivedream.com/2024/02/21/significant-other/
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Artwork by Claudia McGill
Blog on accompanying artwork:
https://claudiamcgillart.com/2024/02/21/significant-other/
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Russian Bookshop, London, 1991
Scottish Arts Trust
Shortlisted, Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction 2024
Back Then, At Sea
Runner-up in WOW! Women On Writing 2024 Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest
Originally published in ‘And If That Mockingbird Don't Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative’ (Alternating Current Press, 2022)
Mother’s Wordsearch in the Waiting Room of Her Mute Five-year-old Son’s Speech Therapist
Cutbow Quarterly Issue 6, January 2024, page 12
Electric Storm
Wigleaf Top Fifty 2023
Wigleaf
(Originally published in New Flash Fiction Review)
We All Want To Be Overdressed For The Afterlife
Beaver Magazine, Issue 8: The Fall Issue 2023
Trust the Process
Centaur Issue 3 Fall 2023
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
The Mechanics of Speech
The Forge Literary Magazine
Winner of the 2023 Forge Flash Nonfiction Competition
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net
Fogged Horizons
Stanchion Magazine Issue 13, October 2023
Red Books
Flash Flood Journal
National Flash Fiction Day 2023
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best Small Fictions
Undertow
The Phare
Summer ’23 Issue
Why We No Longer Take Risks
South Florida Poetry Journal
August 2023, Issue # 30, Poetry
Turf
Leon Literary Review
Issue # 22
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net 2024
Wall Space (Winner: Third Place - judged by Kathy Fish and Mikaela Nyman)
NFFD NZ Micro Madness 2023
Roaring Twenties
New Flash Fiction Review, Issue 28, 2023
WIGLEAF TOP 50 LONGLIST 2024
Double Lives (1st place for flash fiction)
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-10/2022_QuietManDave_Prize_Flash_Fiction_Prize_shortlist.pdf
Unvoiced (shortlisted for flash non-fiction)
Manchester Writing School & Manchester School of Theatre
QuietManDave Prize 2022
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-10/2022_QuietManDave_Prize_Flash_Non-Fiction_Prize_shortlist.pdf
Electric Storm
Runner up 2022 New Flash Fiction Prize
New Flash Fiction Review
Special Issue: 2022 New Flash Fiction Prize
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
WIGLEAF TOP 50 2023
Mournography
Ellipsis Zine
Cold Toast (3rd Place Great Festival Flash Off Writing Challenge)
Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Five
https://www.flashfictionfestival.com/winners-oct-8th-great-festival-flash-off-writing-challenge/
Art: The Green Cloth (Roald Kyllingstad, 1976)
Girls Night Out
Ellipsis Zine
When to Let Go (longlisted)
Reflex Fiction, Quartely International Flash Fiction Competition, July 2022
Hotlines
Pithead Chapel, volume 11 issue 7
Midnight Sun
bracken, issue ix
Wine-tasting for Beginners
FlashFlood Journal June 2022
The Future Was Never Orange
Fahmidan Journal, issue 12
Package Holiday: Monastir, All Inclusive
Finalist 2022 Blue Frog Contest
Flash Frog
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Unbinding
Bending Genres
Issue Twenty Six, April 2022
Nominated for 2022 Best Microfictions
Aisle 9
Emerge Journal
Emerge Issue 21
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Ellipsis Zine
Awakening
Funny Pearls
Speech and Language Milestones
Janus Literary
Volume 1, Issue 3
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
What’s Lost
The Phare
Summer ’21 Issue
The Third Time we Meet
The Drabble
Issue May 2021
Book Review of Voices from the ‘Jungle’: Stories from the Calais Refugee Camp
The Other Side of Hope: Journeys in Refugee and Immigrant Literature Vol 1, Autumn 2021
The Phantom Limbs of Memory
Overground Underground Magazine Issue #2, 2021
To His Naked Eye
Ellipsis Zine
Old Hands
Centifictionist
Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2021
Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions
Blink Pot International Flash Fiction Award
Special Commendation
Informant
Paragraph Planet
Republished by Flash Flood ‘21
[etym. Ancient Greek parasitos, meaning one who feeds at another’s table]
Reflex Press
Lest we Perish
Retreat West
Micro 1st place & Best Micro Opening Line Runner-Up
17 Albert Street
Retreat West
Micro 1st place
Perpetual War: 1979
Life Safari, Ellipsis Zine #9, 2021
Bloodstream
Paris Lit Up Magazine No4, 2016
Literary Journals: Work
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