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YASMINA DIN MADDEN
SHORT FICTION
“Zero Sum Game.” The Cutleaf Reader. Vol 2 Spring 2023.
“The De Facto Mother.” May Break Your Bones: An Oxford Flash Fiction Anthology. December 2022.
"The De Facto Mother." Oxford Flash Fiction. March 2022
Winner of the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize.
(850 submissions)
"X+Y = Something." National Flash Fiction Day Anthology. June 2022.
"Party Stories." Electric Literature: The Commuter. May 2022.
https://electricliterature.com/party-stories-by-yasmina-din-madden/
(Circulation 50,000; Acceptance Rate 2%)
"The Questions You Ask a Lost Child Now."
The Citron Review. March 2022.
“Bunny: A Triptych.” X-R-A-Y Magazine. February 2022.
(Circulation ; Acceptance Rate )
“Zero Sum Game.”
Cutleaf. January 2022
(Circulation 3,500; Acceptance Rate 2%)
https://cutleafjournal.com/fiction/zero-sum-game/
"Night."
New World Writing. January 2022.
https://newworldwriting.net/
“Snow.”
The Fairy Tale Review: Gold Issue. Vol 17 2021
(Circulation 10,000; Acceptance Rate1%)
“And This is How It Ended.”
Fractured Literary. March 2021
Honorable Mention in the Fractured 2020 Micro-Fiction Contest
(1500 submissions; 3 prize winners; 5 honorable mentions; Acceptance rate .5%)
https://fracturedlit.com/and-this-is-how-it-ended/
“We Wonder.”
New Flash Fiction Review. February 2021
(Circulation 3,000; Acceptance Rate 3.5%)
http://newflashfiction.com/we-wonder-by-yasmina-din-madden/
“Once.”
The Atticus Review. October 2020.
(Acceptance Rate:1% )
https://atticusreview.org/once/
“Swan Dive.”
Bull: Men’s Fiction. September 2020
http://bullmensfiction.com/fiction/swan-dive/
“Fyr Bal or The Burning of the Winter Witch.”
Telepoem Booth, Iowa. June,
2020. The Telepoem Booth Project is a national project and includes flash fiction.
http://www.telepoembooth.com/about.html
“Fry Bal.”
Action, Spectacle. Spring 2020.
https://www.actionspectacle.com/yasmina-madden
“Then Go to Paris, I Say.”
The Forge Literary Magazine. May 2019.
Featured story; originally published in Word Riot.
(Circulation 10,000; Acceptance Rate 1.2%)
https://forgelitmag.com/2019/05/27/then-go-to-paris-i-say/
“Neutrality.”
Cleaver: Philadelphia’s International Literary Magazine. March 2019
(circulation:Greater than 10,000; acceptance rate: 7%)
https://www.cleavermagazine.com/neutralityby-yasmina-din-madden/
“A Woman of Appetites.”
Necessary Fiction. January 2019.
(circulation 15,000; Acceptance Rate 4%) http://necessaryfiction.com/stories/YasminaDinMaddenAWomanofAppetites
“A Gook Not a Chink.”
decomP Magazine. April 2018.
Nominated for 2018 Best of the Net Anthology
(Acceptance Rate 5%)
https://www.decompmagazine.com/agooknotachink.htm
“You Know Nothing: A Triptych.”
PANK. December 2017.
(Circulation Greater than 10,000; Acceptance Rate 1%)
Reprinted as featured story in The Forge Magazine, May 2019
https://pankmagazine.com/2017/12/04/know-nothing-triptych/
“Neighborhood Watch.”
Flash Fiction Magazine. August 2017.
(Circulation 6,700; Acceptance Rate 10%)
https://flashfictionmagazine.com/page/25/
“When Georgia Simpson Awakes.”
Angels Flight Literary West. July 2017.
https://aflwmag.com/2017/07/02/ymadden/
“These Hands.”
Jellyfish Review. June 2017.
(Circulation 5,000; Acceptance Rate 5%)
https://jellyfishreview.wordpress.com/2017/06/02/these-hands-by-yasmina-din-madden/
“Clementines.”
Friday Flash Fiction. April 2017.
(Circulation 1500; Acceptance Rate 15%)
http://www.fridayflashfiction.com/100-word-stories/clementines-by-yasmina-din-madden
“Are You Familiar with the Hemingway Editor?”
Defenestration. January 2017.
(Acceptance Rate 20%)
http://www.defenestrationmag.net/2017/01/are-you-familiar-with-the-hemingway-editor-by-yasmina-din-madden-2/
“At the Dog Park.”
The Masters Review: New Voices. July 2016.
Shortlist. The Masters Review Anthology:10 Best Stories by Emerging Writers. Summer 2016.
(Submissions 2250, shortlist 40).
(circulation: 5,000; acceptance rate: less than 2%)
https://mastersreview.com/new-voices/at-the-dog-park-by-yasmina-madden/
“Sal and Dean are Dicks.”
Hobart. July 2016.
(circulation: 13,000; acceptance rate: less than 6%)
http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/sal-and-dean-are-dicks
“Then Go to Paris, I Say.”
Word Riot. April 2016. (Reprinted in The Forge Literary Magazine as a featured story. May 2019)
Shortlist, Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions. 2017.
(circulation: Greater than 10,000; acceptance rate: less than 2%)
“Beggars’ Night.”
Fiction Southeast. April 2016.
(circulation: Greater than 10,000; acceptance rate: 15 %)
http://fictionsoutheast.org/beggars-night/
“That Baby.”
The Idaho Review. Winter 2013
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
(circulation: 5,000; acceptance rate: 1%)
“Loinproduct.”
Revolver. November 2012.
http://www.around-around.com/loinproduct/
“Heat.”
Orchid: A Literary Review. 4. Fall 2004
“Piper.”
Carve Magazine. V3. Spring 2002
Finalist, Raymond Carver Award.
(circulation: 10,000; acceptance rate: less than 2%)
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
"An Interview with Michelle Ross, Author of Shapeshifting."
Necessary Fiction. December 2021.
http://necessaryfiction.com/blog/AninterviewwithMichelleRoss
“Conversation with Kim Magowan, Author of Undoing, Winner of the Moon City Short Fiction Award.”
Cleaver Magazine. March 2018.
https://www.cleavermagazine.com/a-conversation-with-kim-magowan-author-of-undoing-from-moon-city-press-interview-by-yasmina-din-madden/
Interview. Lisa Cockrel on Charles D’Ambrosio’s work.
Rewrite Radio Podcast, Calvin College Festival of Faith and Writing. April 2018.
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