Author: Allison

Allison

Interview with Intrepidus Ink

I’m an editor with Intrepidus Ink, a fantastic magazine that publishes stories featuring alarmingly individual and heroically-minded characters. Submissions include flash fiction (300 – 1,000 words) and short stories (1,500 – 2,500 words), so I bet you have a piece to send our way! Read our published stories to ensure you hit the mark in terms of a story that will keep the reader on the edge of their seat, rooting for your character to win it all.

Oh, did I mention it’s a PAYING magazine? And we promote your work like crazy, including interviews on publication day and nominations for all the literary awards.

If you want to submit, check out our published stories and interviews. Including mine with EIC Rhonda Schlumpberger.

Allison

Showcased in the Ekphrastic Marathon

Last month I took part in the Ekphrastic Review‘s Ekphrastic Marathon and wrote several pieces based on amazing works of art. I’m excited that my story inspired by “The Hand, The Remorse of Conscience” was featured in the Marathon Showcase!

Read it, and many other wonderful pieces, here.

Allison

Two in Visual Verse

Yes, Visual Verse only publishes one image prompt per month, but I forgot to update when they accepted my piece last month, and they’ve just posted my submission for August, so you get two here!

Read my July story, “Waiting in the Rain”

Read my August piece, “Precarious Pile”

Allison

Nectar published in SoFloPoJo

I’m so happy that South Florida Poetry Journal accepted my micro fiction “Nectar” for publication! I wrote this in Nancy Stohlman’s “Courting the Muse” workshop, which truly let me unwind and chase story fragments wherever they led me. I loved getting a chance to explore the magical realism of this story and hope you enjoy it, too!

Read “Nectar” here! Also check out all the other amazing writers in this issue.

(keep reading at SoFloPoJo!)

Allison

Blue Monkey published at Ellipsis Zine

I’m so excited that my flash piece, “Blue Monkey,” was published today at Ellipsis Zine!

You can read it here!

I wrote this in a Sarah Freligh workshop that centered around place. After drawing a map of a street in my city, I realized there were tons of stories I could write… so I did! And this is the first to find a home, so I hope you read it and love it and demand someone publish my chapbook centered around midtown Memphis.

Read it in full!

Allison

5 Published at The Write-In

As my last post mentioned, I had a great time writing and submitting to The Write-In on National Flash Fiction day. I’m thrilled that five of my submissions were published! I’m sharing the links here, along with the prompts to give an idea of the guidelines/constraints.

Crosstown Traffic: A triptych where each section takes place in the same moment of time.

Moving Day: A story in which the action happens backwards.

Trick or Treat: Flash without a full stop or period as a punctuation mark.

She’s Where the Sky Meets the Water: 24-word flash with a seven-word title.

Dreamless Reality: A version of a fairy tale set in modern times.

Allison

Happy National Flash Fiction Day!

Yes, I’m posting this right before the day officially ends in the UK, but I’ve been writing since The Write-In started posting prompts yesterday evening (my time)! I always love writing from a prompt, as evidenced by so many of my recent publications having origin stories in workshops.

Anyway, this year NFFD is doing a badge system, and I love collecting little trinkets that show where I’ve been and what I’ve done, so here are the pieces I’ve written and submitted so far.

Since the deadline to submit is tomorrow at 5:59p my time, I’m going to keep writing because this concept of time in the prompts is perfect for how I’m trying to push myself to go speculative, so I’m going to continue writing. Anyone else participating today?

Allison

“Midway” Shortlisted for Brilliant Flash Fiction Contest

I’m so excited to announce that my micro, “Midway,” was shortlisted for the Brilliant Flash Fiction contest and is published online!

Read it here, along with the other fantastic shortlisted stories and, of course, the contest winners!

This is the image that inspired the piece, written in a Sarah Freligh workshop. The prompt was to use an image to find “the poetry of prose,” and something about this photograph my paternal grandfather took at the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York was like a lightning strike. I wrote about it soon after the workshop (Bolt of Inspiration), and this honor of being shortlisted for a contest gives me fresh inspiration to work on the project mentioned in that blog post.