Open Journal Short Stories
Many thanks to all the short story writers who continue to submit to Superlative.
Here are the fantatsic short stories that we have selected for publication in our open journal.
If you would like us to consider your short story, please submit here.
Enjoy!
J.L. Tyrrell is a U.S. Army veteran and writer living in St. Louis. His work traces the borderlands of faith and trauma, where the American landscape becomes a map of memory and redemption.
In her many decades on the planet, Ann Landi has pursued several callings, as a caterer, a magazine editor, a corporate wife, an art journalist with ARTnews and The Wall Street Journal, and most recently as director of an ambitious contemporary gallery in Taos, NM.
Emily Anderson is a writer based in San Francisco. She was born and raised in Florida, and received a BA in English from the University of Florida.
Eloise Keary grew up in Sydney, Australia, in tumbledown beach houses filled with siblings, books, pets, and surfboards. She has worked as a producers’ assistant at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in Sydney and Perth, a copyright assistant at the BBC in London, an executive assistant at the World Bank in Washington DC, as a high school English and Drama teacher, and teaching astronomy in a travelling planetarium.
Adele Voyria (AV) is an Edinburgh-based writer, screenwriter, and teacher from Connecticut. AV completed their Creative Writing MSc in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the From Arthur’s Seat anthology. They have been shortlisted for the Grierson Verse Prize (2021, poetry) and the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition (2020, screenwriting). AV is currently undertaking a Creative Writing PhD at the University of Edinburgh.
Heather Whited graduated from Western Kentucky University in 2006 with a BA in creative writing. She lived in Japan and Ireland before returning to her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee to obtain her graduate degree. She now lives in Portland, Oregon.
Yvonne Heavey is a writer from Jersey Channel Islands. As well as her fiction writing success, her very first play – a full-length piece developed from her short story, The Wake of Yer Man, which won the 2023 Festival of Words – is set to be performed on St. Patrick’s night 2026. Performances in Jersey, Channel Islands, will span March 17th,19th and 20th 2026 – in Jersey, Channel Islands, with further performances planned for Ireland in May, and London in April.
Felix Bou is a psychologist and professor from Tampa, Florida. After living briefly in the American Southwest, he drew inspiration from the region’s landscapes, blending the strange beauty of desert scenery with his clinical insights to craft narratives rich in imagery and introspection. His work spans genres including magical realism, noir, thrillers, and poetry. His short stories have appeared in literary magazines both in the U.S. and abroad, most notably Crimson Tide and The King of Indio.
Gillie Easdon (she/her) is an author and professional writer based on the unceded Coast Salish Territory of the Lekwungen nation in Victoria BC Canada. Human, daughter, mother, partner, coparent, dog mum, friend. She is currently seeking publication of her interconnected short fiction collection of short fiction, Little Always Big.