LATEST NEWS!
RECENT NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS
GOURNAY PRIZE, first runner-up for THE LUNATICS' BALL,
Mad Creek Books/The Ohio State University Press
Longlist, The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest
4 flashes longlisted, Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions
15 Pushcart nominations
9 Notable Essay citations in Best American Essays
RECENT NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS
GOURNAY PRIZE, first runner-up for THE LUNATICS' BALL,
Mad Creek Books/The Ohio State University Press
Longlist, The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest
4 flashes longlisted, Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions
15 Pushcart nominations
9 Notable Essay citations in Best American Essays
Jacqueline Doyle
writer
RECENT BOOK ACCEPTANCE
The Lunatics' Ball, 21st Century Essay series, Mad Creek Books
(the literary imprint of The Ohio State University Press:), forthcoming March 2027
RECENT LONGFORM ESSAYS AND SHORT STORIES
Past Ten anthology, Roi Fainéant, Hunger Mountain, and Nerve to Write
Creative Nonfiction Prompt in the AWP Writer's Chronicle
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING FLASH
Does It Have Pockets?, South Florida Poetry Journal, FlashFlood Journal,
Bending Genres, Lunch Ticket, Ghost Parachute,
Fictive Dream, NUNUM, Cleaver, New World Writing, and Gooseberry Pie
RECENT AND UPCOMING READINGS AND CLASS VISITS
Rolling Writers, Summer, Outer Sunset, San Francisco, upcoming June 2026
Crossroads Salon, Irish-American Crossroads Festival, San Francisco
Patricia Q. Bidar book launch reading, Books on B, Hayward
Panelist of Nonfiction Journal Editors in Hannah Grieco's
"Personal Essays from Start to Finish," The Writer's Center via Zoom
Sasha Vasilyuk's paperback launch reading,
The Sycamore, Mission District, San Francisco
FLASH AND ESSAYS IN ANTHOLOGIES AND TEXTBOOKS
"Little Colored Pills" in Essay Form(s) , edited by Jill Talbot
(Columbia University Press, forthcoming)
"What I Can Tell You Now" in Ghost Parachute anthology
"Has My Heart Been Behaving Strangely for a While?"
in anthology The Past Ten (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, REVIEWS, MENTIONS
The Lunatics' Ball and title flash highlighted and discussed in
Brad Listi's "Otherppl" podcast on The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre
The Lunatics' Ball and title flash highlighted and discussed
in an article in Lit Hub on The Lab
recent review ofThe Missing Girl in Claudine
recent recommendation of The Lunatics' Ball in Claire Polders' Substack
interviews in NUNUM, American Literary Review, and The Bulb Collective
RECENT WORK AT CRAFT Literary Journal
Associate Editor, Creative Nonfiction Flash at CRAFT, 2024-present,
Associate Editor, Creative Nonfiction (longform and flash) at CRAFT, 2020-2024
7 Notable Essay listings in Best American Essays
(for essays published in CRAFT in the past 5 years)
recent interviews in CRAFT with Grant Faulkner and Naomi Cohn
Chill Subs on CRAFT: "Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but close enough."