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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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