WRITING — Brittany Ackerman

FICTION

“The Style of Your Life” (excerpt) Terrazzo Editions
“Boy Crazy” Okay Donkey
“Spaceship Earth” Maudlin House
“The Animal Man” Subnivean
“James, Jim, Jimmy” Rejection Letters
“Star Fox” Moot Point
“So Small, So Far Away” SARKA
“Waiting for the Call” Musing Publications: Winter Dreams
“Cody, Jason, Parker” Pigeon Review
“Against the Current” Roi Fainéant Press
“Each Day I Love You More” Vol. 1 Brooklyn: Sunday Stories
“Thermal Expansion” Farside Review
Contactless Reading: Excerpt of “Lunch Date” No Contact
“Lunch Date” No Contact
“Some Kind of Party” A3 Press
“The Fortune Teller” Emerald City Lit Mag
“Rollercoasters, Big and Small” Bridge Eight
“Night Ache” tele-art mag
“Genius Loci” Hobart
“You Find an Unhatched Egg In Your Tree” Pigeon Pages
"BFF" (mac)ro(mic)
"The Truth of Their Bodies" (mac)ro(mic)
"Waiting in Line" Hobart
"Modern Life" West Texas Literary Review
"Freak Dance" Joey and the Black Boots the reBoot #2
"This is the Place of Dreams" The Write Launch
"Silent Punisher" Route 7 Review
"The People of My Earth" Queen Mob's Tea House
“The Real Deal” The Moving Force Journal p.14
“Giggles” Triangle House Review
“The Good Work of Our Lord” The Helix
“Neighbors” Entropy
“Mad Happy” Entropy
"Moon Dance" Brilliant Flash Fiction Magazine
"The Food that Perishes" Loud Zoo p.64
“The Knower” Crab Fat Magazine p.83
"The Coffee Line" Gambling the Aisle
“Rat King” Nervous Ghost Press: Writing For Life- an Anthology
“Arlene” Juked
“Remember Us Girls” The Los Angeles Press
“While You Were in China” Free State Review
“Reading the Cards” On the Seawall
"Sharing a Cigarette" Dirty Chai Magazine p.5
“An Accident” Cheat River Review p.6
"Separated From the Earth" Parhelion Literary Magazine
“The Story of Aaron” Blink Ink (print only)
NON-FICTION

“Key Food” Culterate
“Practice with Care” Clarity Magazine
“Big Splashes, So Big” Mom Egg Review
“Back to the Fold” On Being Jewish Now
“Returning to the Middle” Allium
"Dramaturgy" The Racket
"Fool's Gold" Farewell Transmission
"A Visit to the School Nurse" Talk Vomit Girlhood
“On My Mental Breakdown at an Esteemed Writing Conference” Lit Hub
“Sticker Wars” Full House Literary
“Club Rush” Paloma Mag
“Stealing on Main Street” Black Lipstick
Bummer” BULLSHIT LIT
“Nothing But Ice Gravel” MAYDAY
“Such Gifts” The Sun
“College Boys” Heaven Magazine
“Mallsoft” MUTHA
“Cats Gymnastics” Hippocampus Magazine
“If You Were His Favorite” Pine Hills Review
“Crack an Egg on Your Head” The Champagne Room
“Greetings From Costa Rica” NiftyLit
“Notes from a mom-to-be” The Racket Journal
“Bloomability” Wisconsin Review
“The Osborne Lights” Sierra Nevada Review
“Bar Mitzvah Blues” Westwind
“Forever Hell” Barely South Review
“The Feeling” Mulberry Literary
“Going to the Hospital” The Account
“In the Weeds” Lover’s Eye Press
“13 Unsolicited Emails From the Not So Distant Past” The Racket issue 61: p. 7-9
“Hear and Do” Burningword Literary Journal
“Essay as Inquiry” Write or Die Tribe
“Fallow Periods” Post Road
“My Starving Years” The Hunger Journal
“Going to the Mall” On the Seawall
"The Black Fox" The Ravens Perch
"Riding the Lift" Queen Mob's Tea House
"The Pact" Eunoia Review
"Bloomington" Eunoia Review
"A Letter to No One in Particular" Eunoia Review
“Blonde” Epoch Press
“Wanting to Be Seen” HerStry
“Blue Movies” Bodega
“Get a Life” Under the Sun
“It Looked Like Love” West Trade Review
“My Piano Teacher Talks to God” On the Seawall
“Baby” Blood Orange Review
“Expressing Your Relation to Eternity” The Racket issue 1: p.12-15
“Boys Before” Gold Man Review
“The Talking Cure: Cyclone” Entropy
“Grand Cayman” borrowed solace
“Going Swimming” Santa Clara Review
"Square Pizza" The Los Angeles Review
"Into the Hudson" trampset
"Just Short of the Words" Fiction Southeast
“Blue Line- CTA-Early Evening” Schuylkill Valley Journal
“Space Mountain” No Tokens
POETRY

“Bad Taste” Forever Magazine
"A Human Document" 3 Elements Review
"Silent Prayer" 3 Elements Review
"Worship Your City" Split Rock Review
"Joie De Vivre" The Voices Project
“January” reprint in Belletrist
“Love Letters to No One in Particular” Always Crashing
“the big eclipse” Exposition Review
"Recitation of the Immediate Future" (A Palimpsest) Subprimal Poetry Art
"Droit D'Aubaine" The Ravens Perch
"Triple Word Score" The Ravens Perch
"How to Picture an Edge" The Ravens Perch
“Halfway,” “The Way to Feel in Flagstaff,” and “The First Explorers” Otis Nebula Press
“Twenty Plays” Hobart
“Sonder” Junto Magazine
“It Never Feels Awful” Pomme Journal
“Catasterismi” Yes Poetry
“Lettres D’Amour,” “January,” and “Summer Love” Apple Valley Review
CRAFT ESSAYS & INTERVIEWS

Cynthia Weiner: On the Long Run of a Writing Career, The Art of Invulnerability, and Capturing a Character’s Psychology in Her Debut Novel ‘A Gorgeous Excitement’
Ashleah Gonzales On Inspirations from Youth, Romanticizing the Self, and Cool Girl Lit in Her Debut Poetry Collection, ‘Fake Piñata’
Emily Layden: On Clearing the Noise of Publication, Getting off the Grid, Music as a Parallel to Writing, and Her Novel, ‘Once More From The Top’
Leigh Lucas On Finding Humor in Grief, Riding the Residency Wave, How Mothering Informs Writing, and Her Debut Chapbook, ‘Landsickness’
Kimberly King Parsons On Mothers as Monoliths, Psychedelics, Burning Ourselves Down for Clarity, and Her Debut Novel ‘We Were the Universe’
A Message to All the Gold Seekers : Kevin Wilson and the Power of Art
E.J. Koh On Transcendental Art, What Writers Seek from Workshop, How We Keep Hope Alive, and Her Debut Novel ‘The Liberators’
Rita Bullwinkel On the Strangeness of Sports, Writing as an Act of Control, and Her Novel ‘Headshot’
Fiona Warnick On the Hunt for a Perfect Croissant, IRL Versus Digital Relationships, and Her Debut Novel, ‘The Skunks’
Heather Bartel On Derealization as Process, Tarot Inspo, and All Things Plath in Her Debut Essay Collection, ‘Exit the Body’
Kirsten Reneau On Writing Prompts, Experimental Forms in Essays, the Importance of Observation, and Her Debut Essay Collection, ‘Sensitive Creatures’
Kate Gale On Writing a Pandemic Novel, Running a Small Press, What It Means to Be a Literary Citizen, and Her Debut Novel ‘Under a Neon Sun’
Alex Alex Alberto On Self-Portrait as a Portal to Exploring Polyamory and Unconventional Love Stories
Brian Allen Carr On Transience, Seeking the Real, Literary Hierarchies, and His Novel ‘Bad Foundations’
Lauren Nossett On the Throes of Plot Twists, the Genre Debate, Dolly Parton as Inspiration, and Her New Novel ‘The Professor’
Sarah Gerard On Writing Stories Without Conflict, Cats as Metaphor, and Her New Chapbook ‘The Butter House’
“Writers Who Inspire Us: Sarah Gerard and the Chaos Within” Write or Die Tribe
Lessons Learned from “Body Work” by Melissa Febos
Essay As Inquiry - Write or Die/ Chill Subs
On Balancing Teaching and Writing - Write or Die/ Chill Subs