Sheree Shatsky
​Sheree Shatsky is the author of the novella-in-flash Summer 1969 (Ad Hoc Fiction 2023). She is a contributor to MAINTENANT 17: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art ‘PEACEFIRE’ (Three Rooms Press 2023). Ms. Shatsky attended the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop summer session 2021 and was selected by the AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program as a Spring 2018 mentee for flash fiction. Her microfiction was nominated for Best Microfiction 2022 (Splonk Flash) and Best Microfiction 2020 (Fictive Dream and MoonPark Review). She calls Florida home and is a Tom Petty fan.
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Short Fiction and Mixed Media
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2023
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"Ukraine" Alien Buddha Press, ABZ #56, December 2023;
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"Uplift" Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Vol. 10, Chapter 11 September 18, 2023;
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"Monster Mouth"Flash Flood, National Flash Fiction Day, June 24, 2023 @ 1:20 a.m. BST [Online];
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"Summer 1969"Novella in Flash, Ad Hoc Fiction May 15, 2023 [Print];
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"The Jesus Tree" Cowboy Jamboree Magazine Issue 8.2 "Country & Folk" Spring 2023. [Online];
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"Lash" Cutbow Quarterly, Issue 3, March 24, 2023.[Print, Online];
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"On Sunday" Bending Genres, Issue Thirty One, February 14, 2023. [Online]
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"Extinction" Fictive Dream Flash Fiction February, 2/7 2023. [Online];
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2022
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"Lashed" After Happy Hour Review, December 5, 2022.[Online];
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"For Carrie"SugarSugarSalt Lit, 8/30/2022, reprint.[Online];
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"Dead Horse" The Journal of Radical Wonder, 7/7/2022.[Online];
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"You Wait Until Dark"Tales to Terrify: Episode 537, 5/13/2022.[Podcast];
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"Summer 1969" Shortlist: Bath Novella in Flash Award 2022, April19, 2022. Published Ad Hoc Fiction 6/12/2023. [Print];
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"Untitled" Roi Fainéant Press, "Petites Serving 10", 2/27/2022;[Online];
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"I'm Sandra Dee" Fictive Dream Flash Fiction February, 2/3/2022. [Online];
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2021
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"Candid" Cowboy Jamboree Magazine Issue 7.1 "Buried Child" 10/26/2021.[Online];
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"Jane Day" The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, 4/1/2021. [Online];
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2020
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"Hot Off The Press" The Dillydoun Review", 12/17/2020. [Online];
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"Margaret with the Weird Thick Pink Glasses" Ghost Parachute,11/1/2020;
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"Plumber Lost in Taco Bell 'Sink' Hole" The Daily Drunk, 9/6/2020. [Online];
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"'69 Oldsmobile Cutlass" The Daily Drunk, 4/27/2020.[Online];
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"The World is Ending and My Feet Still Hurt" Funny Pearls, (4/15/2020). [Online];
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"Last Dance" Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art, Florida Noir Vol. 14 Spring 2020 [Print];
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"Hurry" Fictive Dream Flash Fiction February, 2/3/2020. [Online];
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"Divinity" The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, February 1, 2020.[Online];
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2019
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"Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" trampset, (December 23, 2019) [Online];
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"Tiny Fridge" Fiction Kitchen Berlin (December 20, 2019) [Online];
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"Girl Talk" Neutral Spaces Birthday Magazine, Contributor. (December 20, 2019) [Online];
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"The Lute Woman" Bleached Butterfly (Vol. 1:3 December 2019). [Online];
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"Ear She, Ear He" Virtual Zine Mag (October 7, 2019). [Online];
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"Front Porch Swing" New Flash Fiction Review: Place,(8/10/2019). [Online];
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"Thirty Minutes to Life" The Sirens Call," Issue 45 "Distant Screams", June 2019). [Online];
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"Captain, My Captain"MoonPark Review, (June 21, 2019). [Online];
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“Stonewall”Flash Flood, National Flash Fiction Day (June 15, 2019). [Online];
- "Reverse"Crack the Spine, (May 2019).[Online];
- "Cooked Cookies" Derelict Lit (March 2019, republish).[Online];
- "Orange We Happy" Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, (2/1/2019). [Online];
- "Sole Man" KYSO Flash, (Issue 11, Spring 2019) [Online];
- "Magazine Rack" KYSO Flash, (Issue 11, Spring 2019) [Online];
- "Finding Jim Morrison" Rind Literary Magazine, (Issue 12, February 2019) [Online];
- "Vetted" Fictive Dream, Flash Fiction February, 2/7/2019) [Online];
- "Hot Pursuit" Sleet Magazine (Vol.2-#10- Fall/Winter 2019). [Online];
- "Carnies" The Drabble (January 15, 2019). [Online];
- "Green Space" Potato Soup Journal (January 11, 2019). [Online];
- 2018
- "Two Bath Day" Flash Fiction Magazine, (12/21/2018). [Online};
- "Stung" X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, (12/18/2018). [Online};
- “Right Turn” mac(ro)mic, (8/16//2018). [Online];
- "Bacon's Revenge" KYSO Flash, (Issue 10, Fall 2018). [Online];
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"Cooked Cookies"The Shallows/Cold Creek Review (Issue 2, 1/26/2018).[Online];
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2017
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"An Object at Rest" Quail Bell Magazine, (5/4/2017). [Online];
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2016
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2015
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“Visit Camille’s” The Rain, Party and Disaster Society, (Vol. II, Issue IX, August 2015). [Online];
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“By Proxy" Strange Encounters: Fiction, Memoir and Poetry Anthology, (2/27/2015). [Online};
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2014
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“Headway” Digital Papercut Literary Journal, (9/30/2014). [Online];
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“Every Picture Tells a Story” Tell Us A Story, January 2014. [Online];
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2013
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“Florida Sightings” Journal of Microliterature, December 2013. [Online];
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“Exposure” Sassafras Literary Magazine, (Issue 5, October 2013) [Online];
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2011
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“The Brazilian and I” Ether Books, September 2011. [Online];
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1992
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“Side Trip” Creative Reading, November/December, 1992. [Print];
Anthologies
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"Moon Shot" "Coming of Age in Florida", Florida Roots Press, August 4, 2022. [Print];
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"Tiny Fridge" Previously Used, Gravestone Press (10/2021, reprint). [Print];
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"The Lute Woman" Previously Used Gravestone Press (10/2021, reprint). [Print];
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"Last Dance" Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art, Florida Noir Vol. 14 Spring 2020 [Print];
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"Green Space" Potato Soup Journal Anthology, 2020; [Print, ebook];
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"Magazine Rack" Earth Hymn, KYSO Flash Anthology 2019, (1/2019). [Print].
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"Bacon's Revenge"Accidents of Light, KYSO Flash Anthology 2018, (2/2019). [Print].
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"Guetapens" Dime Show Review, (Vol. 2, Issue 3. (12/17/2017). [Print];
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“By Proxy" Strange Encounters: Fiction, Memoir and Poetry Anthology, (2/27/2015). [Online};
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“The Conch Shell” Driftwood IX, A Literary Anthology, [Print].
Poetry
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"Curious" Harpy Hybrid Review" Issue 5: Lost and Found; June 2021;[Online];
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"Recognize" Harpy Hybrid Review" Issue 5: Lost and Found; June 2021;[Online];
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"Laws of Radiation" Harpy Hybrid Review"Issue 5: Lost and Found; June 2021;[Online];
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"Reflection" Heron Tree, (April 14, 2021);[Online];
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"the end of the world had come" Heron Tree; October 6, 2021); [Online];
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“Waitress” Quatrain.Fish, (December 15, 2015). [Online];
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"Untitled" Three Line Poetry, Issue #34, Prolific Press, November 2015. [Print, Online];
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“Inclement” Dirty Chai, (Fall 2014). Issue Four, pg.16. [Online];
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Honors
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The Historical Novella-in-Flash – a rapidly growing genre…July 22, 2023. [Online};
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Longlist YouTube: "The Park" @ Micro Madness| National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand. May 15, 2023.[Online];
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Longlist: "The Park" @ Micro Madness| National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand. May 15, 2023.[Online];
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Shortlist YouTube: "You Broke Your Mother's Heart"@ Micro Madness| National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand. June 12, 2022.[Online];
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Longlist: "… le flagrant délit …" @ Retreat West May Micro Longlist, May 12, 2022;
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Longlist: "Off with His Head" @ Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest, March 9, 2022;
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Longlist: "Summer 1969"@ Retreat West Novelette-in-Flash Prize, January 24, 2022;
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Best Microfiction 2022 Nominee:"Hot Rot" @ Splonk;
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Acceptance: Graduate Fiction Iowa Writers Workshop with Jenny Zhang, University of Iowa, Summer 2021;
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Official Selection: 'Spoonflowers"@ LISP London Independent Story Prize, 4th Quarter 2020;
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Shortlist: "Floor Wax"@ FFF Free Flash Fiction. November 6, 2020;
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Best Microfiction 2020 Nominee:"Vetted" @ Fictive Dream;
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Best Microfiction 2020 Nominee: "Captain, My Captain" @ MoonPark Review;
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AWP Writer to Writer Mentorship Program Mentee, Spring 2018.
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Mentions
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Flash Frontier: "Micro Madness: Sheree Shatsky - You Broke Your Mother's Heart" (6/12/2022), YouTube;
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Zouxzoux: "Favorite Fiction 1st Quarter 2022":"Good Night, Harry"(4/22/2022);
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Bath: Shortlisted Writers,Novella in Flash Award, 2022. "Summer 1969";
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Harpy Hybrid Review: 3 Questions for Sheree Shatsky (6/2021).
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Wraparound South: "Back Porch": Sheree Shatsky.(4/16/2021).
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LISP London Independent Story Prize, 4th Quarter 2020: Interview: Sheree Shatsky.(2/24/2021).
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Zouxzoux, "7 Flash Fictions":"Holy Smoke"(9/17/2020).
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Matt Kendrick, "Blame it on the Weather, Man":"Hurry" (5/4/2020).
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KYSO Flash 100 Faves: "Magazine Rack"@ MacQueen's Quinterly: Resources, 2019;
Photography
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