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!
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.
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.