Alyson is a writer from New Jersey with an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her story collection was runner-up for the 2022 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, a finalist for the George Garrett Prize, and longlisted for the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Competition. One of her stories received a special mention in the 2024 Pushcart Prize anthology. She works as an editor and creative writing instructor. She is a recipient of a 2024 Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts.
Publications​
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Colorado Review (print only)
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Alaska Quarterly Review
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Passages North (print only)
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Salamander (print only)
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Arts & Letters (print only)
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The Writer's Chronicle
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Cincinnati Review miCRo series
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Michigan Quarterly Review Mixtape
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Tahoma Literary Review
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DIAGRAM
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The Journal
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Wigleaf
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Saranac Review
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Lunch Ticket
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Lost Balloon
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WAS Quarterly
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Atticus Review
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Pithead Chapel
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matchbook
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Okay Donkey
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Pigeon Pages
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Short Édition
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Visual Verse
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Redivider
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Hunger Mountain
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Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
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Sundog Litu
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Revolute
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The Plentitudes
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Vast Chasm
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Miracle Monoclei
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Hex
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Husk Zine
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Exposition Review
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The Puritan
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Little Patuxent Review
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Construction
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Craft
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Flock
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Ficton Writers Review
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Empty House Press
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Rejection Letters
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Emrys Journal Online
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Entropy
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Unbroken
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Short Story Today - featured writer (podcast episode)
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Select Short Édition Story Dispensers
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The Common Breath - The Middle of a Sentence (anthology)
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Art of the Short - featured story (podcast episode)
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Good Beer Hunting - Read.Look.Drink
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Project Write Now - guest blog post
selected flash fiction
mistakes happen all the time...
the conservation candidate’s speechwriter tosses another draft of his valentine into the trash
they’re called giblets when they are packaged in the cavity like that
checking on the devil
open the window,
let the cool air in
her own bear now
Q: does this pie travel well?
the middle ages
we watch a depressing climate change documentary and i begin to dream of tables every time i sleep beside you
selected short fiction
three season room
everything must go
saint nobody
selected poetry
two poems
january frieze
the vendor at the farmers market honey stall gingerly peels away a sticky note stuck to the underside of the cash box
fun stuff
interview: short story today podcast
my story, Doubloons, will be distributed at short story dispensers throughout the US
(click for locations)
read.look.drink.#271
@goodbeerhunting.com
interview : colorado review
wigleaf isolation playlist
art of the short podcast
track 16
recognitions
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2024 Millay Arts Fellow in fiction, Millay Arts Colony, Austerlitz, NY
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2024 Mid-Atlantic Arts Fellowship recipient, Individual Artist Grant, NJ State Council for the Arts
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2024 Special Mention, Pushcart Prize Anthology, "Marvelous Freaks of Nature!"
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2024 Best Microfiction anthology, Pelekinesis Press, "After Steady Work Dries Up, the Aging B Movie Queen..."
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2024 Best of the Net Nomination, Tahoma Literary Review, "Mistakes Happen All the Time..."
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2024 Pushcart Prize Nomination, Arts & Letters, "Pugilists"
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2024 Finalist, Texas Review Press's George Garret Fiction award, story collection Marvelous Freaks of Nature!
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2024 Finalist, Orison Fiction Prize, story collection Marvelous Freaks of Nature!
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2024 Finalist Stillhouse Press prose manuscript prize Marvelous Freaks of Nature!
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2023 Longlist, Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Competition, story collection Marvelous Freaks of Nature!
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2023 Best Microfiction nomination, "Checking on the Devil"
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2023 Fiction Mentor, Adroit's Summer Mentorship Program
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2023 Semi-finalist, Adroit Review's Anthony Veasna So Scholar
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2023 Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50 "Q: Does This Pie Travel Well?"
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2022 Runner-Up, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, story collection Marvelous Freaks of Nature!
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2022 Pushcart Prize Nomination, "The Middle Ages"
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2022 Best Small Fictions nomination, The Journal, "Her Own Bear Now"
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2022 Finalist, Gigantic Sequins Flash Fiction contest
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2022 Longlist, The Forge's Flash Fiction Competition, "Open the Window, Let in the Cool Air"
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2022 Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50 "Hazardous to Sea Life"
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2022 Best Small Fictions nomination, Exposition Review, "Vigil"
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2021 Finalist, Edith Wharton - Straw Dogs Writers Guild - Writer-In-Residence
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2021 Honorable Mention, Cincinnati Review's Robert and Adele Schiff Awards
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2021 1st Place, Exposition Review's Flash 405 Contest (House Party Theme), "Vigil"
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2021 Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50, "Decoys"
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2021 Best Microfictions nomination, "Fire Sale"
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2020 Longlist, The Forge's Flash Fiction Competition, "Hazardous to Sea Life"
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2020 Pushcart Prize nomination, "Prix Fixe"
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2020 Best Small Fictions nomination, "Prix Fixe"
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2018 Longlist, Prism International's Grouse Grand Lit Prize for V. Short Forms, "Sharon Tate"
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2018 Finalist, Page International Screenplay Awards
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2017 Semi-Finalist, ScreenCraft Family-Friendly Screenplay Award