2018 Contest Results
Below you’ll find our 2018 Psychopomp Magazine Short Fiction Award winners and runners up, along with brief notes from our judge, Anne Valente, about the first, second, and third place stories. We look… Continue reading
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Review: Ventriloquisms by Jaclyn Watterson
Understanding the Abstracted: A Look into Jaclyn Watterson’s “Ventriloquisms” “By the time he’s dead, delicacy, like high-heeled shoes, is a vector, and–no surprise–ventriloquism is no longer a form of self-expression. Stick a feather,… Continue reading
Review: Ottessa Moshfegh (Homesick for Another World and Eileen)
If you want to look beyond carefully censored stories that operate within the bounds of social niceties, then Ottessa Moshfegh’s writing is for you. Unapologetically raw, honest, and maybe, just maybe, too familiar… Continue reading
Submission Call: Previously Published Work
From February 16, 2018-March 23, 2018, we’re accepting submissions of work that has already been published. We’ve done this for the past two years. The goal is to give new life to work… Continue reading
Issue 5.2 | Winter 2018
Our Winter 2018 issue contains work from Michele Zimmerman, Jessica Love, and Raluca Balasa. Three stories may seem like few for us, as we usually range from four to six, but we love… Continue reading
If You’ve Been Naughty, Beware of the Krampus
While standing at the airport, a child ran up to me and told me, “Santa isn’t real!” I looked at the child’s parents, whose faces had twisted in both sadness and perhaps fear… Continue reading
Review: Of This New World by Allegra Hyde
Of This New World by Allegra Hyde Winner of The John Simmons Iowa Short Fiction Award in 2016, Allegra Hyde’s collection of short stories titled Of This New World is a truly transportive… Continue reading
Psychopomp Magazine Nominees for the 2018 Pushcart Prize
We are thrilled to announce this year’s nominees for the Pushcart Prize. Black-Hearted by Madeleine Sardina, Fall Issue 5.1 The Bones and the Bird by Shannon Noel Bray, Summer Issue 4.4 Instructions… Continue reading
An Interview with Anne Valente, Final Judge for the 2018 Psychopomp Magazine Short Fiction Contest
Anne Valente is the author of the recent novel, Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down, and the short story collection, By Light We Knew Our Names. Her second novel, Utah, is forthcoming in early 2019. Her short stories appear… Continue reading
Issue 5.1 | Fall 2017
Our Fall 2017 issue, the first as we enter a fifth year of Psychopomp Magazine, includes stories from Beatriz L. Seelaender, Craig Holt, Madeleine Sardina, and Grant Gerald Miller. Follow the link to the… Continue reading