A FEW EXAMPLES OF CREATIVE WORK

SHORT FICTION

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NEWSBOY is one of two micro magazines published by the Hopkins Review (Johns Hopkins University’s literary magazine) in the summer of 2025. These are also part of my work-in-progress, I SHOULD HAVE SLEPT WITH THEM ALL, a series of linked micros on longing and desire.

Hair On My Chest, a finalist in the SmokeLong Quarterly contest, published in June of 2024, is also part of my new work-in-progress. Nominated by SmokeLong for the Best Small Fictions 2025

The Zipper published by the Maryland LIterary Review published in May of 2024

“Gargoyle and Stars” by Caroline Bock winner of the Writer Magazine short story prize

“Government-Issued Bunnies” by Caroline Bock in SmokeLong Quarterly

“Rumours of War” in Jewishfiction.net -a historical short story set in Rome during WWII. Also a finalist in the Screencraft Cinematic Short Story Competition under the title, “Refuge”

CREATIVE NONFICTION

“Letters to Loved Ones” and “Grasshoppers” in Janus Literary Review

“Olfactory” in Brevity

“Desideratum: Something Desired as Essential” in the Delmarva Review

“Soon, Soon” in jmww

SPECIAL PROJECTS

AMERICA’S FUTURE, edited by Caroline Bock and Jona Colson, published in September 2025. 164 writers. 500 plus pages. The most ambitious, boldest anthology of poetry and prose in the 50-year history of the Washington Writers’ Publishing House. Available in print and ebook, everywhere books are sold. Read the future now. Order it here.

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THEATER REVIEWS/SMALL TALK COLUMN

My theater reviews for the major DC-area online theater guide DC THEATER ARTS. Find my reviews here.

SMALL TALK. My bi-monthly column on small presses for the Washington Independent Review of Books.

Write on, all!

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