YASMINA DIN MADDEN
BOOKS
You Know Nothing: Stories
Forthcoming February, 2026 Northwestern University Press/Curbside Books
SHORT FICTION
A selection of published pieces:
“Zero Sum Game.” The Cutleaf Reader Volume 2. December 2022.
“The De Facto Mother.” May Break Your Bones: An Oxford Flash Fiction Anthology. November 2022
“X + Y = Something.” NFFD 2022 Anthology. June 2022.
“Party Stories.” Electric Literature. May 2022.
(circulation: 5 million; acceptance rate: 1%)
https://electricliterature.com/party-stories-by-yasmina-din-madden/
“The De Facto Mother.” Oxford Flash Fiction. March, 2022.
Winner of the Oxford Flash Prize
(850 submissions)
CREATIVE NONFICTION
“How to Be Your Mother’s Best Daughter.”
JMWW. June 2019
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
(circulation:1000; acceptance rate: 5%)
https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2019/06/26/essay-how-to-be-your-mothers-best-daughter-by-yasmina-din-madden/
SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND WRITING
“Flash in the Classroom: Contagion in the Flash Lab.”
SmokeLong Quarterly. October 2019
(circulation: 30,000; acceptance rate: 1.2%)
http://www.smokelong.com/flash-in-the-classroom-contagion-in-the-flash-lab/
“Why I Write.”
Fiction Southeast. Winter 2016.
(circulation: Greater than 10,000; acceptance rate: 15 %)
http://fictionsoutheast.org/why-i-write-yasmina-madden/
INTERVIEWS
“How Far I’ve Come: An Interview with Kim Magowan.” JMWW Journal. Spring 2022.
“Writers of Color Reading Series Podcast.” Interviewed by Chuy Renteria. Spring 2021.
“Shapeshifting: An Interview with Michelle Ross.” Necessary Fiction. Winter 2021.
Interviewed by Lisa Cockrel on Charles D’Ambrosio’s work. Rewrite Radio Podcast, Calvin College Festival of Faith and Writing. April 2018.
“Conversation with Kim Magowan, Author of Undoing, Winner of the Moon City Short Fiction Award.” Cleaver Magazine. March 2018.