2022: A Year in Review

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Welcome! Thanks for subscribing! Given the first month of 2023 is still wrapping up, I thought there’d be no better way to begin this substack than with a look back on 2022. It was the best year for writing I’ve had in decades - with my first pushcart nomination since 2015. Interestingly enough, that 2015 piece was about my grandmother and the second, born in the first month of 2022, was about her husband, my grandfather. Grateful to them for the interesting lives they lived (shoutout to Tina & Lorenzo). I was also lucky to receive my first nominations for Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions.

Below, you’ll find published stories from the past year by yours truly organized by favorites, length, & general genre. There’s 23 in total so no pressure to read them at all but they’re here if you are inclined! I’d love to hear about ones you enjoyed, so feel free to reach out if you feel so moved.

Happy Reading!

Best of 2022

So, starting off with my FAVORITE pieces of the year.

• This is not a story about my grandfather - FlashBack Fiction

  • Nominations: Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions

• One day, my chest will be Sag Harbor - Pithead Chapel

• They Called It Fever - Full Mood Mag (as a part of their “Melomania” issue)

• Perspective - Club Plum Literary (Horror Issue)

• Love is - Variety Pack

  • Nomination: Best Small Fictions

Micro-fiction: <500 words

• On Landing - The Red Lemon Review

• I Knew an Eggshell - The Centifictionist Review

• Cancer as a sky crab - CLOVES Literary

• Benjamin Moore on Diagnosis - Full Mood Mag (as a part of their “Yellow” issue)

• Don’t Go Looking - Soor Ploom Press

• An Irish Goodbye - Boston 100 Words

• Sara Winchester and the Mystery House (story fragment, incomplete but published as a part of Roi Faieants unfinished “Petites” series)

Flash Fiction: <1,000 words

• The Birdfeeder - Typishly

• What Chloe does in the Metaverse without you is about you - Idle Ink

• what we are to each other and what we are not - Bending Genres

• Consider this my resignation - Rejection Letters

Short Stories <5,000 words

• Dairy Ain’t Free - Daily Drunk Magazine How Can I Help You? Issue

• Self Portrait - Londemere Lit

• When you find yourself at the bottom of the stairs, think of Diderot - Sixfold

Creative Nonfiction:

• This is how I dink whiskey in the morning - Scrawl Place

• Recovery, Run - CLOVES Literary (TW: references to sexual assault)

Poetry:

• body of work - JAKe

• Medicine Cabinet Contents of a married couple, 2022 - Unstamtic Magazine

Interviews (I know, cringe):

• Five Questions with Salena Casha at FlashBack Fiction

• Microinterview with Salena Casha at The Centifictionist

Whew okay, that was a lot. Kudos to you if you’ve got to the end. All the ones to come will be much shorter, I promise. Until next time!

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