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I’m trying to write literature here.

– Tina McElroy Ansa

awards + recognition

SELECT publications

[how i wonder what we are], Unlost Journal of Found Poetry and Art

A Short Story About a Woman Who Can’t Stop Burying Things, Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Anthology

Third Place, Dream Foundry Speculative Writing Contest

Big Mouth Mitchie, CRAFT Literary
  • selected for Wigleaf’s 2026 Top 50 Very Short Fictions

A Fortune Teller Worth Her Ball Should Refuse to Tell You When You’re Going to Die, Passages North

The Wanderer: A Black Woman’s Search For Her Place in White, White Vermont, The Delacorte Review

[Longreads Best of: Reader Favorites]

The Numbers in My Phone, Autostraddle

Fried Fish, The Hennepin Review

[Pushcart Prize, Nominee] and [The Best Small Fictions Anthology, Sonder Press, Nominee]

On Guacamole That Comes Out of a Squirt Gun, Taco Bell Quarterly

Visiting a Boy’s Room, Split Lip Magazine

[wigleaf very best short stories longlist]

[republished in eastover anthology of rural stories, volume ii]

A Series of Observations Regarding the Present Pandemic’s Persistence, Zone 3 Press

Wherein the Civil Court of State Sanctioned Companionship Considers a Petition, Emerge: Lambda Fellows Anthology

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