LATEST NEWS!
UPCOMING READING AND CLASS
upcoming reading: for Sasha Vasilyuk's paperback launch, The Sycamore,
Mission District, San Francisco (December 9, 2025)
upcoming class: two-hour Zoom workshop "Unlocking New Flash
Through Creative Constraints," Flash Fiction Institute (January 18, 2026)
RECENT NOMINATIONS
Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions, 2025 and 2024
(for "We Could Have" in Flash Boulevard and "(Parenthetical Asides)" in Centaur)
Longlist, The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest, 2024
(for "Little Darling" in Wigleaf)
9th Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2023
(for "Cutting Edge" in Permafrost)
"Shoplifting" and "(Parenthetical Asides)" nominated for Best of the Net
"Shoplifting" nominated for a Pushcart Prize
RECENT WORK AT CRAFT
recent interviews with Grant Faulkner and Naomi Cohn in CRAFT
Creative Nonfiction Editor at CRAFT Literary Journal (since fall 2020)
(5th, 6th, and 7th CRAFT Notable Essay listings,
in Best American Essays 2024 and Best American Essays 2025)
UPCOMING READING AND CLASS
upcoming reading: for Sasha Vasilyuk's paperback launch, The Sycamore,
Mission District, San Francisco (December 9, 2025)
upcoming class: two-hour Zoom workshop "Unlocking New Flash
Through Creative Constraints," Flash Fiction Institute (January 18, 2026)
RECENT NOMINATIONS
Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions, 2025 and 2024
(for "We Could Have" in Flash Boulevard and "(Parenthetical Asides)" in Centaur)
Longlist, The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest, 2024
(for "Little Darling" in Wigleaf)
9th Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2023
(for "Cutting Edge" in Permafrost)
"Shoplifting" and "(Parenthetical Asides)" nominated for Best of the Net
"Shoplifting" nominated for a Pushcart Prize
RECENT WORK AT CRAFT
recent interviews with Grant Faulkner and Naomi Cohn in CRAFT
Creative Nonfiction Editor at CRAFT Literary Journal (since fall 2020)
(5th, 6th, and 7th CRAFT Notable Essay listings,
in Best American Essays 2024 and Best American Essays 2025)
Jacqueline Doyle
writer
RECENT READINGS AND CLASS VISITS
reading, The Prose Garden via Zoom
class visit, Jill Talbot's "Essay Form(s)" at the University of North Texas via Zoom
reading, The Racket, The Sycamore, Mission District, San Francisco
reading, Rolling Writers Fall, Outer Sunset, San Francisco
reading, SoFloPoJo via Zoom
reading, The Past Ten at AWP, Los Angeles
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING ESSAYS
The Pinch, Past Ten, EPOCH, Hunger Mountain,
and Nerve to Write (forthcoming)
RECENT SHORT STORIES
Five South, BULL, and Roi Fainéant
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING FLASH
Flash Boulevard, Sweet, Current, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online
Does It Have Pockets?, South Florida Poetry Journal,
Fictive Dream, FlashFlood Journal, Ghost Parachute,
Lunch Ticket (forthcoming), and NUNUM (forthcoming)
FLASH AND ESSAYS IN ANTHOLOGIES AND TEXTBOOKS
"Little Darling" in Grant Faulkner's craft book
The Art of Brevity (University of New Mexico Press)
"Late Bloomer" in Awakenings, ed. Diane Gottlieb (ELJ Editions)
"Has My Heart Been Behaving Strangely for a While?" in anthology The Past Ten,
ed. Donald Quist, Kali White VanBaale, and Bailey Gaylin Moore (Cornerstone Press)
"The Lunatics' Ball" and craft essay in Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante's textbook
The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre (W.W. Norton)
RECENT INTERVIEWS, PROFILES, REVIEWS, MENTIONS
The Lunatics' Ball and title flash highlighted and discussed in
Brad Listi's "Otherppl" podcast and an article in Lit Hub
on The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre
profiles and interviews in American Literary Review, The San Franciscan,
Sweet, Rappahannock Review, Tiny Molecules, and The Bulb Collective
recent review ofThe Missing Girl in Claudine