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Publications

SELECTED STORIES

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2025

Fiction Collection - Mythic Picnic TweetStory

* forthcoming

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What they don't understand is, getting used to the pronouns is the hardest part - MoonPark Review

* forthcoming

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Lepidoptera - Moon City Review

* forthcoming

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Bra Shopping - In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction

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2024

Afternoon Nap - Iron Horse Literary Review PhotoFinish 2024

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So Tightly Wound - Atlas + Alice

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You Stupid Kid - Roi Fainéant Press

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Triple-Digit Fire Weather - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

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Nothing Is Wrong with Him - Emerge Literary Journal

 

Mom gets me a dog for my ninth birthday because she says all kids should have a dog - Fractured Lit​

Smokelong Quarterly Workshop Prize, Long List

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Rules Keep You Safe - BULL

Smokelong Quarterly Workshop Prize, Long List

The Blue Frog, Finalist

The Masters Review 2023 Spring Small Fiction Awards, Short List

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Somewhere Else Better - Anti-Heroin Chic

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Clean Floors - The Welkin Writing Prize

The Welkin Mini, Second Place

Nominated for The Pushcart Prize

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2023

I’m trying but it’s really hard - Ghost Parachute
 

Détente - Bath Flash Fiction Award
Bath Flash Fiction Award, First Prize winner

Nominated for Best Small Fictions
 

Unmentionables - Stanchion 
Nominated for Best Small Fictions

 

How to Survive a Black Hole - Pithead Chapel

2024 Wigleaf Top 50, Long List
 

Thorns - MicroLit Almanac
Nominated for Best American Essays and The Pushcart Prize

 

Sometimes she wishes he was dead, but then she’d miss him - Flash Frog
Smokelong Quarterly Workshop Prize, Finalist

Nominated for Best Small Fictions
 

Why you drive seven hours up to Yreka to check up on your little sister after she moved there with your Mom - Milk Candy Review
 

Alone on Your Kid’s Birthday  - Many Nice Donkeys
Nominated for Best of the Net

 

Survival Instinct - SoFloPoJo

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2022

Crossing the Limen - Heimat Review

 

INTERVIEWS

Q&A with Dawn Tasaka Steffler, October 2023 First Prize Winner - Bath Flash Fiction Award
 

Judge’s Report, October 2023 - Bath Flash Fiction Award
 

Two Questions for Dawn Tasaka Steffler - Milk Candy Review

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ANTHOLOGIES

The Weather Where You Are - Bath Flash Fiction Volume Eight

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FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES

Storyknife Writers Retreat, April 2024

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StoryStudio Chicago, StoryBoard Workshop Fellow 2023
 

Smokelong Quarterly Fellowship for Emerging Writers 2023
 

Periplus Fellowship, Finalist 2022

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READINGS

FBOMB Global Flash Reading, February 2025

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Live From Storyknife reading series, April 2024

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