Short Prose
SELECTED SHORT FICTION AND NONFICTION
“The Men on the Fence” —short story— in: TriQuarterly
* nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“Animal Puzzle” (print only) —short story— in: Denver Quarterly
* nominated for a Pushcart Prize
“Of Lace and Limitations” (print only) —short story— in: Prairie Schooner
“The Brazilian Lover” (print only) —short story— in: Fiction International
“The Empty Space in Front of Your Hand” —creative nonfiction— in: Green Mountains Review
“The Last Gift” —creative nonfiction— in: Tin House (The Open Bar)
“The Cost of Living” —flash fiction— in: The Rupture (The Collagist), 2019
“Dawn” (print only) —flash fiction— in: Mid-American Review
* finalist for the Fineline Competition
“New Leader” —flash fiction— in: Cheap Pop
* Selected for the Wigleaf Top 50
“Walls” —flash fiction— in: Electric Literature
* longlisted for The Wigleaf Top 50
“Clean Hands” —flash fiction— in: Monkey Bicycle
* nominated for Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net
* longlisted for The Wigleaf Top 50
“Playground” —flash fiction— in: Bat City Review
* runner up in the short prose contest judged by Ben Fountain
“Woman of the Century” —flash fiction— in: matchbook
* nominated for a Pushcart Prize and The Best Small Fictions
“Speaking of Ovid” —flash fiction— in: Connotation Press
* nominated for Best of the Net
“Stella Is” (print only) —micro fiction— in: The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang, Dec 2020
* selected by judge Amber Sparks (and editors Meg Pokrass & Gary Fincke) for the Best Microfictions anthology 2021 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions
“Breathlessness” —micro fiction— in: Moon Park Review
* selected for the Best Microfiction anthology and nominated for Best of the Net. Katherine Valdez: “At just 49 words, quite possibly the shortest horror story you’ll ever love.”
PUBLISHED SHORT PROSE, per year, all genres
2020
- “Of Lace and Limitations” (print only) —short story— in: Prairie Schooner, 2020
- “The Truth About Knowing“—short story— in: Necessary Fiction, 2020
- “The Guillotine Reinvented” —flash fiction— in: Little Fiction, 2020
- “Bleeding Girls Initiation Ritual“—flash fiction—in: Monkey Bicycle, 2020
- “Stella Is” (print only) —micro fiction— in: The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang, Dec 2020
* selected by judge Amber Sparks (and editors Meg Pokrass & Gary Fincke) for the Best Microfictions anthology 2021 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions - “The Wrong of My Birth“—flash fiction—in: Gone Lawn, 2020
- “Tone Determines What You Say“—flash nonfiction—in: Love in Times of Covid, 2020
2019
- “The Cost of Living” —flash fiction— in: The Rupture (The Collagist), 2019
- “Gado Gado” —short story— in: JMWW, 2019
- “Retracing” — flash fiction, Special Feature “Place”— in: New Flash Fiction Review, 2019
- “Musical Chairs” (print only) —micro fiction— in: The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang, 2019
* nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction - “Dance Partners” —flash fiction— in: Pidgeonholes, 2019
- “Guidelines for Non-Americans on Writing a Classic American Story—flash fiction—in: Miracle Monocle
- “The Hall of Mirrors at Dusk” (print only) —flash fiction— in: PopShot, 2019
- 5 micros (print only) in: Elm Leaves Journal, the Blackout Edition.
- “Overdue Elegy” —creative nonfiction— in: Bending Genres, 2019
* Selected for The Bending Genres Anthology – 2018/2019 - “Double Life” —flash fiction— in: Connotation Press, 2019
- “Forest of Friends” —flash fiction— in: Ghost Parachute, 2019
- “Delusion” —flash fiction— in: Poetry Bay, 2019
- “Swan Lake“(reprint) — flash fiction— in: New Flash Fiction Review, 2019
- “Looking for a Place to Die” — micro fiction — in: Atlas and Alice, 2019
2018
- “The Brazilian Lover” (print only) —short story— in: Fiction International, 2018
- “New Leader” —micro fiction— in: Cheap Pop, 2018
* Selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 - “Clean Hands” —flash fiction— in: Monkey Bicycle, 2018
* nominated for Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net - “Breathlessness” —micro fiction— in: Moon Park Review, 2018
* selected for the Best Microfiction anthology and nominated for Best of the Net - “Limbo Land” —flash fiction— in: Lost Balloon, 2018
* longlisted for The Wigleaf Top 50 - “Field Trip” and “Tabula Rasa” (print only) —micro fiction— in: Blink Ink, 2018
* “Tabula Rasa” was nominated for Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and a Pushcart Prize. - “Growing Pains” —flash fiction— in: The Sunlight Press, 2018
* nominated for Best Small Fictions - “The next” —flash fiction— in: Jellyfish Review, 2018
- “Dutch Neighbors” and “Battle of Brushes” and “Lost and Found” —flash fiction— in: Atticus Review, 2018
* “Lost and Found” was nominated for Best Microfiction - “Amsterdam (online and print) —7 micros/1 short story— in: Heavy Feather Review, Vol 7, 2018
- “Inner Thief” —flash fiction— in: FlashBack Fiction, 2018
- “Flynn, Fate, and The Friendly Stranger” —flash fiction— in: Spelk, 2018
- “A Tasting of European Chefs” (print only) —flash fiction— in: Ripening, National Flash Fiction Anthology, 2018
- “How to Kill Your Grandmother” (print only) —flash fiction— in: Flash: the short-short story magazine, Vol 10, Nr 2, 2017 (2018)
- “Matter of Time” —micro fiction— in: New Flash Fiction Review, 2018
- “Four Stories” —micro and flash fiction— in Flash Boulevard.
- Interview with Michelle Elvy in NFFR, 2018
- “New Micro-Norton Anthology“—review—in: Gravel, 2018
- “Nothing Short Of” —review— in: JMWW, 2018
2017
- “The Men on the Fence”—short story—in: TriQuarterly, 2017
* nominated for a Pushcart Prize - “Dawn” (print only) —flash fiction— in: Mid-American Review, issue 38.1, fall 2017
* finalist for the Fineline Competition - “Playground” —flash fiction— in: Bat City Review, 2017
* runner up in the short prose contest judged by Ben Fountain - “On Her Skin”—short story—in: The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, 2017
- “Beach Bodies” (print only) —creative nonfiction— in: Room Magazine, 40.3—Migration Issue, 2017
- “Possible Reactions” (print only) —creative nonfiction— in: The Pinch, issue 37.2, 2017
- “The Gravity of Air” —creative nonfiction— in: The Forge, 2017
- “Con Artists” (online and print) —creative nonfiction— in: Litro UK, July—Alternative Facts Issue, 2017
- “Woman of the Century” —flash fiction— in: matchbook, 2017
* nominated for a Pushcart Prize and The Best Small Fictions - “Speaking of Ovid” —flash fiction— in: Connotation Press, 2017
* nominated for Best of the Net - “The Anxious One” —flash fiction— in: Connotation Press, 2017
* nominated for The Best Small Fictions - “The Killer” —micro fiction— in: Connotation Press, 2017
- “Office Women: Three Portraits and Thirteen Questions” —flash fiction— in: Necessary Fiction, 2017
- “Snapshots of Yesterday’s Tomorrow” (print only) —micro fiction— in: Tears in the Fence, summer issue, 2017
* third prize winner in the flash fiction competition - “The Hardest Thing” —flash fiction— in: Iron Horse, PhotoFinish 2017
* finalist in the flash fiction competition - “Swing State” (print only) —flash fiction— in: Sleep is a Beautiful Colour, National Flash Fiction Anthology, 2017
- “Specialties + Meteorological Rest + How to Kill a Rose + Sunflowers” —4 micros— in: New World Writing, 2017
- “Spring Cleaning”—micro fiction—in: National Flash Fiction Day NZ, 2017
* longlisted for the Micro Madness competition - “One-Way Family” —flash fiction— in: (b)OINK, 2017 (defunct)
- “Classic Woman” —flash fiction— in: Whiskey Paper, 2017
- “The Spider and I” —micro fiction— in: Cheap Pop, 2017
- “Papers” —micro fiction—in: The Offing, 2017
- “Seven Causes of my Mother’s Bicycle Accident” —flash fiction—in: Flash Frontier, 2017
- “Atmospheric Betrayal” —micro fiction— in: Blue Fifth Review—Blue Five Notebook Series, 2017
- “Liabilities” —flash fiction— in: Pithead Chapel, 2017
- “Swan Lake” —flash fiction— in: Vestal Review, 2017
* readers’ favorite - “Aurora, Giselle, Jasmine” (print only) —micro fiction— in: Blink Ink, 2017
- “Wait Till You See Me Dance” —review— in: Heavy Feather Review, 2017
- “Top Ten (plus one) Best (Dead) Father Flashes” —blog listicle— in: SmokeLong Quarterly, 2017
2016
- “Animal Puzzle” (print only)—short story—in: Denver Quarterly, Vol 50, Nr 4, 2016
* nominated for a Pushcart Prize - “Walls” —flash fiction— in: Electric Literature (Okey-Panky), 2016
* longlisted for The Wigleaf Top 50 - “The Empty Space in Front of Your Hand” in: Green Mountains Review, 2016
- “The Last Gift” —creative nonfiction— in: Tin House (The Open Bar), 2016
- “Playing the sports fan” —creative nonfiction— in: Prairie Schooner, 2016
- “Copycat” —flash fiction— in: SmokeLong Quarterly, 2016
- “Woman of the Week” —flash fiction— in: matchbook, 2016
* republished in the anthology WAVES: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, 2018 - “Surfacing” (print only)—short story—in: FOLIO, Vol 31, 2016
- “The Alps in Fall Time”—short story—in: Mikrokosmos Literary Journal, 2016
- “The Writer and Her Time” —creative nonfiction— in: Fiction Southeast, 2016
- “Fraying” —creative nonfiction— in: Atticus Review, 2016
- “Back to Back” —creative nonfiction— in: Word Riot, 2016 (defunct)
* republished in Flash Boulevard
* republished in the anthology WAVES: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, 2018 - “Fistfuls” —flash fiction— in: Superstition Review, Issue 17, 2016
* with a podcast on writing this story - “Brunch” —flash fiction— in: Jellyfish Review, 2016
- “Snails and Oysters” —flash fiction— in: Hermeneutic Chaos, 2015 (defunct)
* republished in Flash Boulevard
* nominated for The Best Small Fictions - “The Path to the Future” —flash fiction— in: Pinball, 2016 (defunct)
- “Locked In, Locked Out” —flash fiction— in: Vending Machine Press, 2016
- “Message from the Forest” —flash fiction— in: Litro UK, 2016
- “The World on Fire” —micro fiction— in: Crack the Spine, 2016
* selected for Best of print anthology, Vol XIV - “Earthquake” —micro fiction— in: Unbroken, 2016
- “Flash Addiction” —blog column— in: SmokeLong Quarterly, 2016
- “Condensed to Flash: World Classics” —review— in: JMWW, 2016
2015
- “The Mindreader” —flash fiction— in: Hobart, 2015
* my first publication in English - “Her Face in the Glass” (print only) —flash fiction— in: Flash: the short-short story magazine, Vol 8, Nr 2, 2015
- “The Hunter at the End of the Day” —flash fiction— in: Hobart, Erotica Special, 2015
- “Ham&Cheese” +“Divorced and in Love” —micro fiction— in: Literary Orphans, 2015
- “A Ball is a Ball” —micro fiction— in: Minor Literature[s], 2015
- “An Interesting Case” —flash fiction— in: Toasted Cheese, 2015
- “Dimensions” —creative nonfiction— in: The Missing Slate, 2015
* republished in the anthology WAVES: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, 2018 - “Baseball & Wine” —micro fiction— in: Pidgeonholes, 2015
- “The Realist” —micro fiction— in: Boston Literary, 2015
PUBLICATIONS in DUTCH and TRANSLATIONS (before 2015)
- “Hoe de muur onder mijn hand verkruimelde” (short story) in:
25 under 35, stories by young & promising Dutch and Flemish authors,
an anthology edited by Said El Haji & Annelies Verbeke. - “Beauté” (essay) and “Amour” (short story) in French translation in: Deshima
Available in PDF: “Beauté” and “Amour“ - “De Gang van Zaken” (short story) in: Deus Ex Machina
- “Hôtel Lutetia” (essay) in: En Route. Available in PDF: Hôtel Lutetia
- “Het allerliefste Hoofd” (short story) in the anthology: Fasten Your Seat Belt.
- “Een leven zonder klok” (essay) in: Flow. PDF: Een leven zonder klok
- “De dood als zelfbehoud” (essay) in: HP De Tijd. PDF: De dood als zelfbehoud
- Dromen van surrealisme (essay) in: Filosofie Magazine. PDF: Dromen van Surrealisme
- “Wat ik mis, creëer ik” (interview with French singer-songwriter Thomas Boulard) in: WahWah
- “Eliott Smith” (essay) in: WahWah, special edition Groeten van Rottumerplaat
an anthology edited by Joost Zwagerman - “De vermenigvuldiging van Valerie” (short story) in: De Verleiding
an anthology edited by Susan Smit and Siska Mulder - “Wachten op Gregor” (short story) in: Durante
- Regular column in: Bureau de Helling (an exchange with politician Hagar Roijackers)
- Flash essays in: Filosofie Kalender. Available here and here.
- Columns and articles in: local and national newspapers