Storm Cellar #11.1 published!

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It’s pub day, today, and we’re so excited to share with you our latest, a bit late but arriving in its own time! Big love to all who contributed, and — Reader — you’re gonna love this one! Get it in glorious print or fabulous ebook editions.

CONTENTS:

Force Majeure Flash Contest winners:
1st prize – Tessa Swackhammer,
2nd prize – Mike Yunxuan Li,
2nd prize – Julian Mithra,
honorable mention – Erica Sharlette,
honorable mention – Mike Itaya,
honorable mention – Jill Bronfman,
honorable mention – Sara Fetherolf,
FICTION
Liza Wieland,
Katherine Sinback,
FLASH
Cameron Walker,
Gabriella Navas,
Kate Garklavs,
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Julia Kooi Talen,
POETRY
Jan Ball,
Zachary Lundgren,
Nnadi Samuel,
Jasmine Sawers,
Derek Otsuji,
Kristin Emanuel,
Chrissy Martin,
Grace Day,
Jane Vogel,
Kayleigh Norgord,
Carolina Esses translated by Allison A. DeFreese,
IMAGES
Debismita Dutta,
Yuko Kyutoku,
fatima abby tall,
Paul Rabinowitz,
Joseph Stern,
Favour Adetona,
Ami Watanabe

 

2023 Force Majeure Flash Contest Winners

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Finally, and with a great deal of hearty congratulations to all involved, the winners of our annual flash writing contest — this year we had some truly wonderful entries and you all made it so very hard to choose! Lo:

1st Prize “Pre-Elegy for My Sister” by Whitney Koo 

2nd Prize “A Brief World” by Uyen P. Dang 

2nd Prize “Bones” by Nathan Long 

honorable mentions: “Garden Statues” by Kendall Morris, “Midnight Zone” by Caleb Tankersley, and “Taint” by Veeda Khan.

All of our winners and honorable mentions will be published in issue #11.2, forthcoming in 2024!

Arlandis Jones: Big Shoe Dance

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We’re champing to be get back on the shoe on the other foot, or something like that. Here’s “Big Shoe Dance,” a gem of a personal essay from Arlandis Jones:

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This CNF piece originally appeared in Storm Cellar 8.2, available as an ebook over in our shop (print sold out).

The 2023 Force Majeure Flash Contest is still open!

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We’re awarding $500 in prizes and the deadline is 5/30 — just extended. Enter with fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrids, fragments, experiments, and wild things under 1000 words. Here is a link to the entry form on Submittable that also contains the full guidelines.

Suphil Lee Park – Heartland

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Here’s a palpitating flash fiction that earned an honorable mention in our 2020 contest, Suphil Lee Park’s “Heartland,” about which best to go in with a sunny disposition. [CW discussion of suicide]

This flash originally appeared in SC #9.1, available in print and ebook formats in our store.