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Brendan Stephens

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Creative WRiter / Educator

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Below is a partial list of previous publications

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Publications

Fiction

"Scapegoat"

The Georgia Review, Winter 2024

"Hell's Mountain"

Cleaver Magazine, Best American Short Story Nominee, Issue 42, Summer 2023

"The Medusa Border"

The Pinch Journal, Pushcart Nominee, Issue 43.1, Summer 2023

"Musical Notation"

Ghost Parachute, Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2023, July 2022

"Gasping for Breath, Ears Ringing"

Notre Dame Review, Issue 49, Winter/Spring 2020

"Visitation"

Sequestrum, Winner of New Writer Award, Issue 24, June 2020

"Off Meds"

Into the Void Magazine, Winner in 2019 Fiction Contest, Issue 15, February 2020

"Ouija Board"

Pacifica Literary Review, Issue 15.2, May 2019

"A Lifetime"

Into the Void Magazine, 2nd Place in 2018 Fiction Contest, Issue 19, January 2019

"Rascal"

SmokeLong Quarterly, Issue 62, December 2018

"Dead Phoenix"

EPOCH Magazine, Volume 67, Number 3, Fall 2018

"The Waters"

Southeast Review, Issue 36.1, Spring 2018

"Camp Potomac"

Ghost Parachute, May 2017


Poetry

"Ignis Fatuus"

Orca A Literary Journal, Issue 18, Winter 2025

"Watching TV with a Busted Antenna," "Waiting," & "Grandfathers in Wartime"

Hole in the Head re:View, v4n4, November 2023

"Fever Fantasy (I)" & "Fever Fantasy (II)"

Translated from German, original poems by Matthias Politycki, Moon City Review, 2023

“Dan’s Rock Overlook Before Dawn”

I-70 Review, Summer/Fall 2020

"Unlike Brian Wilson"

Poet Sounds Anthology, Lo-Fi Poetry, CityLit Press, Feb 2020

"Praying for Warm Lips"

Evansville Review, Volume 29, 2019

“Easter Eggs” & “Shadow”

Carolina Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2017

"After Nine Years Vegan"

Into the Void Magazine, January 2017

"Koka Kola"

Clash by Night Anthology, Lo-Fi Poetry, CityLit Press, May 2015


Creative Nonfiction

"Get Eternal: Black Metal & Bible Studies"

The Hopkins Review, issue 17.3, Summer 2024

"Endless Feedback"

Music Gigs Gone Wrong Anthology, Paycock Press, 2022

"The Thing I Don't Understand"

Phoebe, 47.2, Spring 2018


Graphic Narrative

"Haunted"

with art by Edie Quinn, The Rumpus, October 2023


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