shorts

FORTHCOMING

• “The Brazilian Lover” (print only) in: Fiction International, 2018
• “The next” in: Jellyfish Review, 2018
•  Five short shorts (print only) in: Elm Leaves Journal, 2018
• “How to Kill Your Grandmother” (print only) in: Flash: the short-short story magazine, Vol 10, Nr 2, 2018
• “Limbo Land” in: Lost Balloon, 2018
• “Breathlessness” in: Moon Park Review, 2018
• “Growing Pains” in: The Sunlight Press, 2018

SHORT STORIES (2016-2018)

• “The Men on the Fence” in: TriQuarterly, 2017
  —nominated for a Pushcart Prize
• “Animal Puzzle” (print only) in: Denver Quarterly, Vol 50, Nr 4, 2016
  —nominated for a Pushcart Prize
• “Amsterdam” (print only) in: Heavy Feather Review, Vol 7, 2018
• “On Her Skin” (subscription only) in: The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, 2017
• “Surfacing” (print only) in: FOLIO, Vol 31, 2016
• “The Alps in Fall Time” in: Mikrokosmos Literary Journal, 2016

PERSONAL ESSAYS / MEMOIR (2016-2018)

• “The Empty Space in Front of Your Hand” in: Green Mountains Review, 2016
• “The Last Gift” in: Tin House (The Open Bar), 2016
• “Beach Bodies” (print only) in: Room Magazine, 40.3—Migration Issue, 2017
• “Possible Reactions” (print only) in: The Pinch, issue 37.2, 2017
• “The Gravity of Air” in: The Forge, 2017
• “Con Artists” (online and print) in: Litro UK, July—Alternative Facts Issue, 2017
• “The Writer and Her Time” in: Fiction Southeast, 2016
• “Fraying” in: Atticus Review, 2016
• “Back to Back” in: Word Riot, 2016.
  —republished in the anthology WAVES: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, 2018

SELECTED FLASH (SHORT SHORTS) and MICROS (2015-2018)

• “Clean Hands” in: Monkey Bicycle, 2018
• “Dawn” (print only) in: Mid-American Review, issue 38.1, fall 2017
  —finalist for the Fineline Competition
• “Walls” in: Electric Literature (Okey-Panky), 2016
  —longlisted for The Wigleaf Top 50
• “Copycat” in: SmokeLong Quarterly, 2016
• “Woman of the Century” in: matchbook, 2017
  —nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for The Best Small Fictions
• “Speaking of Ovid” in: Connotation Press, 2017
  —nominated for Best of the Net
• “The Anxious One” in: Connotation Press, 2017
  —nominated for The Best Small Fictions
• “The Killer” in: Connotation Press, 2017
• “The Hardest Thing” in: Iron Horse, PhotoFinish 2017
  —finalist in the flash fiction competition
• “Playground” in: Bat City Review, 2017
  —runner up in the short prose contest judged by Ben Fountain
• “Snapshots of Yesterday’s Tomorrow” (print only) in: Tears in the Fence, summer issue, 2017
  —third prize winner in the flash fiction competition
• “The Mindreader” in: Hobart, 2015
  —my first publication in English
• “Matter of Time” in: New Flash Fiction Review, 2018
• “Field Trip” and “Tabula Rasa” (print only) in: Blink Ink, 2018
• “Classic Woman” in: Whiskey Paper, 2017
• “Office Women: Three Portraits and Thirteen Questions” in: Necessary Fiction, 2017
• “Four Micros” in: New World Writing, 2017
• “The Spider and I” in: Cheap Pop, 2017
• “Papers” in: The Offing, 2017
• “Swing State” (print & eBook only) in: Sleep is a Beautiful Colour, National Flash Fiction Anthology, 2017
• “Spring Cleaning” (scroll to June 10th) in: National Flash Fiction Day NZ, 2017
  —longlisted for the Micro Madness competition
• “Seven Causes of my Mother’s Bicycle Accident” in: Flash Frontier, 2017
• “Atmospheric Betrayal” in: Blue Fifth Review—Blue Five Notebook Series, 2017
• “One-Way Family” in: (b)OINK, 2017
• “Liabilities” in: Pithead Chapel, 2017
• “Swan Lake” in: Vestal Review, 2017
  —readers’ favorite
• “Aurora, Giselle, Jasmine” (print only) in: Blink Ink, 2017
• “Fistfuls” in: Superstition Review, Issue 17, 2016
  —with a podcast on writing this story
• “Woman of the Week” in: matchbook, 2016.
  —republished in the anthology WAVES: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, 2018
• “Brunch” in: Jellyfish Review, 2016
• “Snails and Oysters” in: Hermeneutic Chaos, 2015
   —nominated for The Best Small Fictions
• “The Path to the Future” in: Pinball, 2016
• “The Efficient Lover” in: Knee-Jerk, 2016
• “Locked In, Locked Out” in: Vending Machine Press, 2016
• “Message from the Forest” in: Litro UK, 2016
• “The World on Fire” in: Crack the Spine, 2016
   —selected for Best of print anthology, Vol XIV
• “Earthquake” in: Unbroken, 2016
• “Her Face in the Glass” (print only), in: Flash: the short-short story magazine, Vol 8, Nr 2, 2015
• “The Hunter at the End of the Day” in: Hobart, Erotica Special, 2015
• “Ham&Cheese” +“Divorced and in Love” in: Literary Orphans, 2015
• “A Ball is a Ball” in: Minor Literature[s],  2015
• “An Interesting Case” in: Toasted Cheese, 2015
  
• “Dimensions” in: The Missing Slate, 2015
  —republished in the anthology WAVES: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, 2018
• “Baseball & Wine” in: Pidgeonholes,  2015
• “The Realist” in: Boston Literary, 2015

OTHER NONFICTION (2016-2018)

• “Nothing Short Of” (review) in: JMWW, 2018
• “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
• “Playing the sports fan” (blog) in: Prairie Schooner, 2016
• “Flash Addiction” (blog) in: SmokeLong Quarterly, 2016
• “Condensed to Flash: World Classics” (review) in: JMWW, 2016

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.
  Excerpt available: Het Allerliefste Hoofd
• “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