Open Journal Short Stories
Many thanks to all the short story writers who continue to submit to Superlative.
Here are the fantastic short stories we have selected for publication in our open journal.
If you would like us to consider your short story, please submit here.
Enjoy!
Nastia Goddard (née Anastasia Goddard) is an undergraduate student at Northwestern University studying Theatre and Creative Writing. She delights in telling stories both onstage and on the page that explore femininity, the turmoil of a human body's form, and the eternal struggle of self-discovery. She adores the absurd, the complicated, and the nonsensical, and she pushes her audiences to dive deep into their pasts, their fears, and their desires.
Shayna is a New York native, poet, film lover, and Riot Grrrl enthusiast. Her poetry has been featured in Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Luna Literary Journal, Tempered Runes Press, and Hawai'i Pacific Review. Shayna’s work delves into themes of isolation, trauma, and regeneration, often drawing from her own experiences. Never one to shy away from the darker aspects of life, her writing offers readers an unfiltered and unapologetic glimpse into the deeply personal.
Henrick is writer based in New Orleans. His fiction was selected by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and published in the 2025 Hemingway Shorts literary anthology, shortlisted for The Letter Review Prize, and a finalist for the 2026 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize (results pending). His work has also been featured in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Flash Fiction Magazine, and ExPat Press along with forthcoming editions of BULL and Blood+Honey literary magazines.
Jeremy Stelzner’s stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines, journals, and anthologies, including the 2024 Coolest American Stories, the McNeese Review, and Prime Number Magazine, where his story The Thin Line was awarded runner-up for the 2024 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. He’s a teacher of literature and journalism.
Finn Williams is a writer, English teacher and former journalist from Whanganui, Aotearoa New Zealand. Finn has loved the art and magic of storytelling since he was young boy and when he is not writing his own stories, he is imparting that love for stories onto his students in the classroom.
Tess Feldman is a 24-year-old writer in Los Angeles. She has never been published before and wrote "The Muffin Man" on an airplane when she started thinking about accidental billionaires. The whole thing is very silly, and that is the point.
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.