A String of Beads & Other Stories
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions presents our first Short Fiction Anthology, edited by John Bullock.
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Also see our second fiction anthology: The Last Word & Other Stories
ABOUT THE EDITOR: John Bullock is English and has an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Virginia. His stories have appeared in the Antioch Review, Fifth Wednesday, the Laurel Review, Prague Review, Clackamas Literary Review, in the anthology Open Windows III, and in other journals. He teaches high school English in rural Ohio. Mark Small: This is Your Life (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions) is his first novel.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS:
Editor’s Prize Winner: Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, “A String of Beads”
Jennifer Schomburg Kanke lives in Florida where she edits confidential documents. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in New Ohio Review, Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah and Salamander. Her zine about her experiences undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, Fine, Considering, is available from Rinky Dink Press. She serves as a reader for The Dodge.
Hear Jennifer read from her story!
Sarah Kontopoulos, “Happiness on the Beach”
Sarah Kontopoulos is a Seattle writer born in Canada to Greek and English parents. Her work has appeared in TulipTree Review: Spring 2022 Wild Women, and Big Bend Literary Magazine. Her husband, Volker, and two daughters support and cheer her on in life and in writing. Her pet rabbits don’t care and would like some apple now, please.
Ed Davis, “Ceremony”
Ed Davis has immersed himself in writing and contemplative practices since retiring from college teaching. Time of the Light, a poetry collection, was released by Main Street Rag Press in 2013. His latest novel, The Psalms of Israel Jones (West Virginia University Press, 2014) won the Hackney Award for an unpublished novel in 2010. Many of his stories, essays, and poems have appeared in anthologies and journals such as Leaping Clear, Slippery Elm, Hawaii Pacific Review, and Bacopa Literary Review. He lives with his wife in the bucolic village of Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Yvette Viets Flaten, “Blackberry Harvest”
Yvette Viets Flaten writes award-winning poetry and fiction. Her early years as military dependent gave her the chance to travel and study languages and history. Yvette makes it a point to write every day, often finding inspiration in the most common and mundane moments of life.
William Bain, “Fiesole”
William Bain hails from Indianapolis, Indiana. He has travelled extensively in the USA and Europe, and in 1990 became a dual national citizen with the award of Spanish citizenship. Some recent publications include poems and a short theoretical piece in Tusitala Project and poetry in Wild Roof Café, Danse Macabre, and DeLuge Journal. Some small format painting has been shown in collective exhibits in Barcelona. Mobile-inspired poems will appear in late 2022 on a third-party creative writing web application.
Mary Lannon, “They Teased Me About Him”
Mary Lannon is the recipient of a 2020 Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant, a 2021 City Artist Corps. Grant and a finalist in the Iron Horse Literary Review Trifecta Contest for the long short story. Her work has been published at Story, New World Writing, The Woven Tale Press, and The Write Launch. Her unpublished novel, Tide Girl, was named a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. She lives in Queens.
Hear Mary read from her story!
James Callan, “Phantoms”
James Callan grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He lives on the Kāpiti Coast, New Zealand on a small farm with his wife, Rachel, and his little boy, Finn. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Bridge Eight, White Wall Review, Beyond Queer Words, Millennial Pulp Magazine and elsewhere.
Alexa Dinu, “Earl Grey”
Alexa Dinu is a 20-year-old Media & Culture student at the University of Amsterdam. “I was born and raised in Romania until I moved to the Netherlands at age 19. I have a part-time job in a small café in the center of Amsterdam, and when I am not at school or at work, I am just trying to navigate adulthood without being too overwhelmed by the myriad of societal demands.”
Clint Margrave, “Trash”
Clint Margrave is the author of the novel Lying Bastard (Run Amok Books, 2020) and the poetry collections, Salute the Wreckage, The Early Death of Men, and Visitor, all from NYQ Books. His work has appeared in The Threepenny Review, Rattle, The Moth, Ambit, and Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Robert Pope has published many stories in journals and anthologies and three collections of short fiction, the most recent Not a Jot or a Tittle (2022).
