RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND NEWS

Two new stories forthcoming. “Splat!” will be published in Mystery Tribune, Summer 2019, as well as a new story in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, date tbd
Short Story “Window to the Soul” was a finalist for the 2019 ITW Thriller Awards for Best Short Story For a full list of finalists in all categories, click HERE.
Short Story “Waiting on Joe” from my book Shooting Creek was included in Best American Mystery Stories 2018
Essay “House for Sale by Owner” selected as Notable in Best American Essays 2018 and chosen as Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize 2019
Surviving Jersey was a finalist for CLMP’s Firecracker Award for Best Book of 2017 in Creative Nonfiction
You can read “Bee Man” in the May 2018 issue of Brevity
I have an essay included in the anthology Flash Nonfiction Funny (edited by Dinty W. Moore and Tom Hazuka)

SHORT STORIES (a sampling)

CREATIVE NONFICTION/MEMOIR/ARTICLES (a sampling)

“The Hookerman’s Backyard” (essay) in North American Review (May 2018)
“Long Row To Hoe” (essay) in The Chaffin Review (Spring 2018)
“The Second Person” (essay) in The Jabberwock Review (Fall 2017)
Brief post on The Story Prize website about my writing process.
Interview with NY Times best selling author Lisa Unger for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’s blog Something Is Going To Happen
“House for Sale by Owner” (essay) in Zone 3 Chosen as a Notable for Best American Essays 2018
“The Lost Art” (essay on hitchhiking) in Hippocampus
“Steps” in Creative Nonfiction
“My Father” in Creative Nonfiction Chosen as a Notable for Best American Essays 2015
“Circus Prayer” in Sweet. Republished in anthology “The Book of Uncommon Prayer”

Scott Loring Sanders