The Best Small Fictions Anthology Selections
2020
Spotlighted Journals:
B O D Y
The Cincinnati Review
CRAFT
Electric Literature
wildness
Spotlighted Stories:
“Something Amber” – Tina Barry – Beautiful Raft (Big Table Publishing Company)
“Here is the whole history of us chapter one” – Amanda Claire Buckley – Okay Donkey
“Telling” – May-lee Chai – Cincinnati Review
“Some Female Cats and People” – Olivia Clare – ZYZZYVA & Lithub
“Wishbone” – Rachel Heng – Electric Literature
“The Listening Tree” – Micah Dean Hicks – Fairy Tale Review
“Capser, Wyoming” – Blair Hurley – Wigleaf
“Numbers” – Holly Karapetkova – Blue Earth Reviews
“Men Paid Me to Eat” – Natalie Lima – The Offing
“Pacific” – Peter Orner – Maggie Brown and Others (Little, Brown and Company)
“A Writer’s Guide to Fairy Tales” – Ellen Rhudy – Milk Candy Review
“Dollar Store, Yes” – Suzanne Richardson – New South Journal
“The Earliest Memories of Ice” – Claire Miye Stanford – Monkeybicycle
Full Selections:
“Man of Sorrows” – Kim Addonizio – 100 Word Story
“The Assimilation of Boyboy Santos” – Elison Alcovendaz – Lost Balloon
“Orphan an Orphan” – Kevin Minh Allen – Otis Nebula Press
“When I Was Nine I Lived” – Threa Almontaser – Nimrod
“GirlGod” – Melissa Bernal Austin – Longleaf Review
“Subtitles: 50” – Matthew James Babcock – Ilanot Review
“The Candy Children’s Mother” – A.A. Balaskovits – Okay Donkey
“Catherine Eddowes Describes Life After Death” – Amy Sayre Baptista – Jetfuel Review
“The Skins” – Tyler Barton – CRAFT
“Threading Cobwebs on the Upper West Side” – Roberta Beary – A Hole in the Light: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2019 (Red Moon Press)
“Thermaling” – Digby Beaumont – Dancing Alone and Other Lessons (Windblown Alley Press)
“Growing Up” – Talia Bloch – The Southern Review
“A Guide to Dead Girls on TV” – Liz Breazeale – Monkeybicycle
“How to Unravel a Shawl” – Lauren Busser – Cease, Cows
“There” – Alexandra Chang – Passages North
“Beast” – Xi Chuan, translated by Lucas Klein – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
“Mona Lisa” – Rita Ciresi – Ovunque Siamo: New Italian-American Writing
“Trick” – Michael Czyzniejewski – Wigleaf
“Book of Ruth” – Kyle G. Dargan – Shenandoah
“What Little Hobbies for the Dead, the Card Players and the Eclipse” – Sean Thomas Dougherty – Waxwing
“What You Have Been Told” – Molia Dumbleton – Flash Flood
“Thoughts on Raising Girls Freshly Feral” – Samantha Edmonds – Hayden’s Ferry Review
“Fly Season” – Elizabeth Erbeznik – Fiction Southeast
“Osterizer Classic Series 10 Cycle Blender” – Emily Everett – Electric Literature
“Of Chinwoke” – Adachioma Ezeano – FlashBack Fiction
“Dear Delores Dale” – Jen Fawkes – Pidgeonholes
“Panda Breeder” – Tang Fei, translated by Tony Huang – Smokelong
“The Corridors of Longing” – Gary Fincke – New Flash Fiction Review
“See How They Run” – Kathy Fish – Inverted Syntax
“Andy Warhol Sightings” – Valerie Fox – Juked
“XO Training” – Molly Gabriel – Jellyfish Review
“Running Away Diary” – Avital Gad-Cykman – Portland Review & FlashFiction.net
“Break Blow Burn” – Daniel Galef – Juked
“New Shirt” – Louis Gallo – Fictive Dream
“Three Filipinas” – Harrison Geosits – Cincinnati Review
“Pomegranate” – Pia Ghosh-Roy – Split Lip Magazine
“Zones of Contact” – Eugene Gloria – Sightseer in the Killing City (Penguin Poets)
“The Visitors” – Anna Granger – Flash Frontier
“Like Shit on a Cracker” – Claire Guyton – Vestal Review
“Fractured Composition” – Jennifer Harvey – Hot Metal Bridge
“The Change” – Jenna Heller – North & South
“Sing to It” – Amy Hempel – Sing to It (Scribner) & Lithub
“The Braid” – Sheikha Hussein Hlewa, translated by Aisha Yassin – Ilanot Review
“Flock” – Mary-Jane Holmes – Fictive Dream
“Mother reads First Aid Manual while crouching on the floor beside the bookshelf” – Gail Ingram – Contents Under Pressure (Pūkeko Publications)
“Seashells” – Kelly Ann Jacobson – Gargoyle
“What We Leave Undone” – Omotara James – Wildness
“Default” – Jac Jemc – False Bingo (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
“rising waters in the floodplain” – Korbin Jones – Meniscus
“Gunshot” – Ilya Kaminsky – Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019)
“Carnival Wind” – Christopher Kennedy – New York Tyrant
“The Greatest Liar in the World” – Etgar Keret, translated by Jessica Cohen – Fly Already (Riverhead) & Lithub
“Slow Pop” – Chuck Klosterman – Raised in Captivity (Penguin)
“Kim” – Koss – Cincinnati Review
“Palomas, Ciudad de México” – Elizabeth Knapp – Washington Writers’ Publishing House & Green Mountains Review
“Mortality Event” – Hadiyyah Kuma – Smokelong
“Eigengrau” – Randilee Sequeira Larson – Ilanot Review
“Hawks” – David Dodd Lee – Willow Springs Magazine
“My Personal Brand” – Matt Leibel – X-R-A-Y
“Neighbors” – Sara Lippmann – Gone Lawn
“Drown” – Angie Sijun Lou – The Adroit Journal
“Fourth Sister” – Marie Lu – The New York Times
“Barkley” – William Lychack – Waxwing
“L’Chaim” – Rachel Maizes – Monkeybicyle & We Love Anderson Cooper (Celadon Books)
“This Boy’s Tongue” – Peter Markus – Big Other
“Starry Night” – Aoko Matsuda, translated by Polly Barton – The Southern Review
“Last Page of a Rock Star Autobiography” – Buzz McCain – Gargoyle
“Heavy Lifting” – Heather McQuillan – Flash Frontier
“Last Night I Dreamed” – Jesse Millner – Manzano Mountain Review
“Lowcountry” –Niyah Morris – The Rumpus
“Mouths of Brown Girls” – Umaima Munir – Jellyfish Review
“To Be Led from Behind” – Mohammad Ibrahim Nawaya, translated by Robin Moger – The Common
“Strangers” – Josip Novakovich – Catamaran
“The Mermaids Grow Old” – Kara Oakleaf – Pithead Chapel
“Tata” – Ebuka Prince Okoroafor – AFREADA
“Colorful Eyes” – Lola Opatayo – Hot Metal Bridge
“China IIlustrata” – Paolo di Paolo, translated by Jamie Richards – The Florentine Literary Review & Lithub
“We Sing” – Andrea Passwater – The Rumpus
“Twelve-Step Program for Quitting My Life” – Kristen M. Ploetz – CRAFT
“Years Are Sentences” – Elizeya Quate – Rabid Oak
“Shoebox of Thunder” – Barclay Rafferty – Reflex Fiction
“Prickly Jasmine” – Azza Rashad, translated by Jonathan Wright – Banipal 63: The 100 Best Arabic Novels & Lithub & Banat Ahlami (Akhbar el Yom Publishing House)
“Postcard from the Hudson” – Hannah Rego – Lambda Literary
“How to Live Through This” – Helen Rickerby – How to Live (Auckland University Press)
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at Other Birds” – Amy Rowland – Iowa Review
“The Fine Greenbird” – Josh Russell – Suburban Folktales (The Cupboard Pamphlet)
“The Diamond Factory” – Helen Rye – matchbook
“Animal Crackers” – Sam Savage – Lithub & An Orphanage of Dreams (Coffee House Press)
“On the Occasion of the Death of Freddie Lee” – Rion Amilcar Scott – The World Doesn't Require You (Norton/Liveright)
“Daughter” – Lacie Semenovich – Body Literature
“At the Pacific Air Museum” – Lisa Shulman – KYSO Flash
“The Kitchen” – Curtis Smith – Atticus Review
“The Tender Box” – Rachel Smith – Landfall (Otago University Press)
“Everything is Terrible but You Should Read This Story” – Amber Sparks – Smokelong
“I Am a Conservationist” – Charlie Stephens – The Forge
“Caiseas Blues (A Terrible Racket)” – Gregory Stephens – The Esthetic Apostle
“Only A Little Bit Less Than I Hate Myself” – Amy Stuber – Longleaf Review
“The Turnaround” – Mark Terrill – Body Literature
“How to Spot a Whale” – Jacqui Reiko Teruya – The Masters Review
“Sweet” – Robert Tindall – NOON & Harper’s Magazine
“Bite Muko” – Adolphine Umukobwa – AFREADA
“What Happens on Shabbos” – Alisa Ungar-Sargon – JMWW
“Overheard” – Anthony Varallo – The Rupture
“Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” – Lavanya Vasudevan – Lost Balloon
“Basketball” – Siamak Vossoughi – Atticus Review
“Human Being” – Joshua Weiner – Body Literature
“Lessy” – Jeremy T. Wilson – The Master’s Review
“The Cake, The Smoke, The Moon” – Francine Witte – Pidgeonholes
“Theories of the Point-of-View Shift in AC/DC’s ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’” – Jennifer Wortman – Electric Literature
“The Future” – Ryo Yamaguchi – Wildness
“After the Dream, the Dream Remains” – Rich Youmans – KYSO Flash
“What We Be?” – Reza Zareianjahromi – More of Us (Landing Press)
“Nobody Knew My Mother Was a Drunk” – Lisa Zimmerman – Apple Valley Review