-Leslie Jamison
“Melissa Pritchard is one of our finest writers.“
-Annie Dillard
“‘The Carnation Milk Palace’ has stories within stories. It’s so textured you feel like you’ve touched a dozen lives.”
-Patton Oswalt
LATEST NEWS
“Disturbing No One”
Reprinted in A PERFECT SOUVENIR, Stories About Travel From The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Ga., September, 2020.
“The Sherry and Therapy Society”
STORY, Fall Issue, 2019, Issue 6, edited by Michael Nye
www.storymagazine.org
“The Carnation Milk Palace”
Hingston and Olsen’s 2019 SHORT STORY ADVENT CALENDAR, pub date December 1
Other authors include Anthony Doerr, Lauren Groff, Jack Pendarvis, Casey Plett, Omar El Akkad http://www.hingstonandolsen.com/
Fiction Editor, IMAGE Journal, beginning January 2019
www.imagejournal.org
Pushcart Prize, “The Carnation Milk Palace”
2017 Pushcart Prize XLI, November, 2016
Recipient, The 2016 Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers
The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians
Columbus, Georgia, September 1-December 1, 2016
“Hotel Majestic”
Ploughshares, Summer 2016 issue
Guest-edited by Claire Messud and James Wood
“Special Mention” 2018 Pushcart Prize XLII
“Mrs. Wisdom”
Southwest Review
Fall Issue, 2016
2015 McGinnis-Ritchie Fiction Prize
“Distinguished Story”, Best American Short Stories 2016, editor Junot Diaz
Selected for inclusion in Subway Library, a 2017 initiative launched and curated by the
New York Public Library with the NYC MTA www.SubwayLibrary.com
“Palace of Vicissitude”
The Georgia Review
The University of Georgia, Stephen Corey, editor
Spring Issue, 2017
