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The Last Word & Other Stories
edited by John Bullock

ISBN: 978-1-962405-12-6 — $17.00 ($4.63 US Shipping)
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Also check out our first fiction anthology: A String of Beads

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.

EDITOR’S PRIZE WINNER: Christine Sneed’s most recent books are Direct Sunlight: Stories and Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos, and she edited the short fiction anthology Love in the Time of Time’s Up (2022). Recent stories have appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, North American Review, and New England Review. She’s also had stories included in The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies. She teaches for Northwestern University and Stanford University Continuing Studies and lives in Pasadena, CA.

Jessica Barksdale’s sixteenth novel What the Moon Did and short story collection Trick of the Porch Light were published in 2023. She’s published three poetry collections: When We Almost Drowned (2019), Grim Honey (2021), and Let’s End This Now (2024). She taught at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California and continues to teach for UCLA Extension and in the online MFA program for Southern New Hampshire University. She lives in Vancouver, Washington.

Setter Brindle Birch is a longtime animal advocate who made her fiction debut in 2022 with the short story “For the Animals,” published in the Ashland Creek Press anthology Among Animals 3. She shares her life with a beautiful, special, amazing cat daughter.

Rebecca Brock is the author of The Way Land Breaks (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2023). Her work appears in The Threepenny Review, Bellevue Literary Review, THRUSH, Whale Road Review and elsewhere. In 2022, she won the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Poetry Contest at The Comstock Review and the Kelsay Book’s Woman’s Poetry Prize. She is a reader for SWWIM. She has been a flight attendant for most of her adult life and is still surprised by this fact. You can find more of her work at www.rebeccabrock.org.

Sam Crain lives in Fremont, CA. Now that she’s finished her PhD in English, she’s free to return to her first love, writing stories, which she does whenever she can steal her pens back from her cats. Her stories “Debts Discharged” and “Eyes Full of Promise” can both be found on Mythic Beast Studios, where the latter was a first-prize winner.

Russ Doherty attended the Writer’s Digest, Santa Barbara, and Kauai Writers Conferences. He’s studied with George Saunders and Joshua Mohr. He has a double BA from UCSB in Film and Music. His work is published in Broken Plate, Ellipsis, Evening Street Review, Glint Literary Journal, Havik, Lunaris Review, and The Opiate. His short story “The Towers” is published in Potato Soup Journal’s Best of 2021 anthology.

Donna Wojnar Dzurilla’s work appeared or is forthcoming in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers Volume 16, Wild Wind: Poems and Stories Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen, The Gulf Tower Forecasts Rain: Pittsburgh Poems, Backbone Mountain Review, Northern Appalachia Review, the Voices from the Attic anthology series, Rune, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Presence, and other publications. She shares her life in Pittsburgh with her husband Steve, and family.

Karen George is author of the poetry collections Swim Your Way Back (2014), A Map and One Year (2018), Where Wind Tastes Like Pears (2021), and Caught in the Trembling Net (2024). She won Slippery Elm’s 2022 Poetry Contest, and her award-winning short story collection, How We Fracture, was released by Minerva Rising Press in January 2024. Her stories appear in Adirondack Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, Louisville Review, and NonBinary Review. Her website is https://karenlgeorge.blogspot.com/.

Mitch James is a Professor of Composition and Literature at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, OH, the Editor-at-Large at Great Lakes Review, and the owner of The Write Methods (LLC), where he teaches therapeutic and creative writing modalities to guide others in experiencing the transformative power of the written word. Mitch is the author of the novel Seldom Seen: A Miner’s Tale (Sunbury Press) and has published works across the genres of short fiction, poetry, and academic scholarship. You can find his latest short fiction in Bull, poetry at Shelia-Na-Gig online, and scholarship at the Journal of Creative Writing Studies and New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. Keep up with Mitch at mitchjamesauthor.com and Twitter (X) @mrjames5527.

Jennifer Schomburg Kanke’s work has recently appeared in New Ohio Review, Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah and Salamander. She is the winner of the Sheila-Na-Gig Editions Editor’s Choice Award for Fiction (2022) found in A String of Beads & Other Stories. Her zine about her experiences undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer, Fine, Considering, is available from Rinky Dink Press (2019). Her poetry collection about mid-century gender roles The Swellest Wife Anyone Ever Had is available from White Violet Press. She serves as a reader for The Dodge and as a Meter Mentor in Annie Finch’s Poetry Witch Community. She can be found on YouTube as Meter&Mayhem.

Robert Kostanczuk is a former full-time entertainment/features reporter for the Post-Tribune newspaper of northwest Indiana. He won first place for “Best Personality Profile” in a 1992 competition sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists, Indianapolis chapter. His beastly yarn, “A Stirring in the Woodland,” was published in 2019 by Schlock! Webzine of the United Kingdom. Robert’s flash fiction “Coming Along Swimmingly” appeared in Beyond Words international literary magazine (Issue 13; April 2021): Beyond Words Publishing House; Berlin, Germany. Twisted affection drenched, his short story “Steve Loved Her to Pieces,” was published by The Chamber Magazine (February 2022). Robert lives in Indiana.

Rachel Lippolis lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and two sons. She currently stays home with them, writing after the children are in bed. Her short fiction has appeared at Streetlight Magazine and The Hong Kong Review. She was recently awarded an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council.

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).

Elizabeth Rosen is a native New Orleanian, and a transplant to small-town Pennsylvania. She misses fried oyster po-boys and telling tall tales on the front porch, but has become deeply appreciative of snow and colorful scarves. Color-wise, she’s an autumn. Music-wise, she’s the MTV-generation. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as North American Review, JMWW, Flash Frog, Atticus Review, New Flash Fiction Review, Pithead Chapel, and others. Learn more at www.thewritelifeliz.com.