alyson mosquera dutemple

fiction
craft
fun stuff
 

Alyson is a writer from New Jersey with an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, for Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfictions.  She works as an editorial consultant and creative writing instructor.

Publications​

  • Colorado Review 

  • Alaska Quarterly Review (forthcoming)

  • DIAGRAM (forthcoming)

  • Passages North (print only)

  • The Journal

  • Wigleaf

  • Lost Balloon

  • WAS Quarterly

  • Atticus Review

  • Pithead Chapel

  • matchbook

  • Okay Donkey

  • Pigeon Pages

  • Husk Zine

  • Exposition Review

  • The Puritan

  • Little Patuxent Review

  • Construction

  • Craft

  • Flock

  • Ficton Writers Review

  • Empty House Press

  • Rejection Letters

  • Emrys Journal Online

  • Entropy

  • Visual Verse

  • Unbroken

  • The Common Breath - The Middle of a Sentence (anthology)

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selected flash fiction

the middle ages

her own bear now

watersports 
&
the candy striper pockets a note...

hazardous to sea life

fire sale

decoys

prix fixe

vigil

pot roast

selected short fiction

everything must go

saint nobody

sapling

selected craft 

the grind: revelatory repetition in

edward p. jones’s

“an orange line train to ballston”

more with less : limited setting 

eye of the storm: interlude in the 

penultimate space

PT I

eye of the storm: interlude in the 

penultimate space

PT II

 
fun stuff

interview : colorado review

wigleaf isolation playlist

track 16

it worked for beer

 
 
recognitions

  • 2022 Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50 "Hazardous to Sea Life"

  • 2022 Best Small Fictions nomination, Exposition Review, "Vigil"

  • 2021 Finalist, Edith Wharton - Straw Dogs Writers Guild - Writer-In-Residence

  • 2021 Honorable Mention, Cincinnati Review's Robert and Adele Schiff Awards

  • 2021 1st Place, Exposition Review's Flash 405 Contest (House Party Theme), "Vigil"

  • 2021 Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50, "Decoys"

  • 2021 Best Microfictions nomination, "Fire Sale"

  • 2020 Longlist, The Forge's Flash Fiction Competition, "Hazardous to Sea Life"

  • 2020 Pushcart Prize nomination, "Prix Fixe"

  • 2020 Best Small Fictions nomination, "Prix Fixe"

  • 2018 Longlist, Prism International's Grouse Grand Lit Prize for V. Short Forms, "Sharon Tate"

  • 2018 Finalist, Page International Screenplay Awards

  • 2017 Semi-Finalist, ScreenCraft Family-Friendly Screenplay Award

 
hire me

Looking for objective feedback on your prose or your screenplay?

I am currently taking clients. I'd love to talk to you about how my developmental editing could potentially help your

story or script reach its full potential.

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"Alyson's genuine curiosity,

honesty, and extensive knowledge make her a wonderful editor."

-Susan P.

"Some of the best feedback I've ever received on my writing. Alyson is efficient, thorough and highly skilled"

-Rachel M.