LATEST NEWS!
UPCOMING READING AND CLASS
upcoming panelist for nonfiction editors Zoom panel in Hannah Grieco's
essay class at The Writer's Center (January 31, 2026)
upcoming class: Zoom workshop "Unlocking New Flash
Through Creative Constraints," Flash Fiction Institute (January 18, 2026)
RECENT NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS
Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions, 2025, 2024, 2021, 2020
"Your Perfect Day" nominated for Best Microfiction, 2025
Longlist, The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest, 2024
9th Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2023
"Shoplifting" and "(Parenthetical Asides)" nominated for Best of the Net
"Shoplifting" nominated for a Pushcart Prize
UPCOMING READING AND CLASS
upcoming panelist for nonfiction editors Zoom panel in Hannah Grieco's
essay class at The Writer's Center (January 31, 2026)
upcoming class: Zoom workshop "Unlocking New Flash
Through Creative Constraints," Flash Fiction Institute (January 18, 2026)
RECENT NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS
Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions, 2025, 2024, 2021, 2020
"Your Perfect Day" nominated for Best Microfiction, 2025
Longlist, The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest, 2024
9th Notable Essay listing in Best American Essays 2023
"Shoplifting" and "(Parenthetical Asides)" nominated for Best of the Net
"Shoplifting" nominated for a Pushcart Prize
Jacqueline Doyle
writer
RECENT READINGS AND CLASS VISITS
Sasha Vasilyuk's paperback launch, The Sycamore,
Mission District, San Francisco (December 9, 2025)
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, and Bending Genres
forthcoming: Lunch Ticket, NUNUM, and Cleaver
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
recent review ofThe Missing Girl in Claudine
recent recommendation of The Lunatics' Ball in Claire Polders' Substack
profiles and interviews in American Literary Review, The San Franciscan,
Sweet, Rappahannock Review, Tiny Molecules, and The Bulb Collective
RECENT WORK AT CRAFT Literary Journal
Associate Editor, Creative Nonfiction Flash at CRAFT (2024-present,
Creative Nonfiction Editor, 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