Eric Scot Tryon
Writer. Editor.
Publications
Literary Journals
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Passages North -- "The Things We Take" -- Forthcoming 2026
Barrelhouse -- "Thunderheads" --Forthcoming 2025
Mid-American Review -- "When California Finally Breaks Off into the Pacific" -- Forthcoming 2024
Ghost Parachute -- "The Shift of Tectonic Plates" -- 2024
Juked -- "On AM Radio" -- 2024
The Florida Review -- "When There's No One Left to Point At" -- 2023 (Pushcart Prize nomination & Best of the Net nomination)
The Citron Review -- "What the Tides Reveal" -- 2023 (Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist & Best Microfiction nomination)
Lost Balloon -- "Now We Sit on Rooftops" -- 2023 (*WIGLEAF TOP 50*)
Ghost Parachute -- "Too Raunchy for Cedar Rapids" -- 2023
The Forge Literary Magazine -- "At a Roadside Attraction on the Brink of Divorce" -- 2023 (*BEST MICROFICTION SELECTION*)
Wigleaf -- "Whales the Size of Rhode Island" -- 2023
Monkeybicycle -- "The Train That Runs Behind Our House" -- 2023
LEON Literary Review -- "A Mathematical Certainty" -- 2023
Cease, Cows -- "Howl" -- 2023 (Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist & Best Microfiction nomination)
Ninth Letter -- "Sitting with Snails" -- 2023
Timber -- "Muscle Memory" -- 2023
Peatsmoke Journal -- "Last Seen" -- 2023 (*BEST MICROFICTION SELECTION*)
Invisible City -- "#2" -- 2022
Vol. 1 Brooklyn -- "The Gravity of Water" -- 2022
Cease, Cows -- "Monologue to a Tattoo Artist" -- 2022 (*WIGLEAF TOP 50* & *BEST SMALL FICTIONS SELECTION* )
Flash Flood -- "The Weight of Metal" -- 2022
Whale Road Review -- "I'm a Honda Odyssey, I'm a Chrysler Voyager" -- 2022 (*BEST MICROFICTION SELECTION*)
Sonora Review -- "The Wrong Things" -- 2022
Milk Candy Review -- "We Worry For Cats" -- 2022
Pidgeonholes -- "What Happens on the One Year Anniversary..." -- 2022 (Pushcart Prize nomination & Best Small Fictions nomination)
Tiny Molecules -- "Steakhouses, Earthquakes & Brothels: A Jetsetter's Guide to Finding Love" -- 2022
Five South -- "I Take Off My Clothes for the First Time" -- 2022 (Puschart Prize nomination & Best of the Net nomination)
Fractured Lit -- "Bone on Bone" -- 2022 (*BEST MICROFICTION SELECTION*)
Pithead Chapel -- "The Reindeer in Finland" -- 2022 (Best Small Fictions nomination)
Los Angeles Review -- "Fulton Street" -- 2022
The San Franciscan -- "Half Moon Bay" -- 2022
Cleaver Magazine -- "The Underside" -- 2021 (Best Small Fictions nomination)
Ghost Parachute -- "El Triste" -- 2021
Longleaf Review -- "Seven Minutes" -- 2021 (Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist & Best Small Fictions nomination)
The Drabble -- "Like a Woman" -- 2021
trampset -- "Before I Stepped Into the Water" -- 2021
Flash Flood -- "Smart Baby" -- 2021
Fictive Dream -- "Red" -- 2021
(mac)ro(mic) -- "Poof!" -- 2021
Versification -- "What I Want to Tell You the First Time You Mention Divorce in Front of Our Children" -- 2021 (Best of the Net nomination)
X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine -- "That Was the Year We" -- 2021**
LEON Literary Review -- "Wrong Math" -- 2021
Bending Genres -- "Night Swimming" -- 2020
Monkeybicycle -- "The 1965 Johnny Roseboro, Mint Condition" -- 2020
Berkeley Fiction Review -- "Now Starting Phase 4!" -- 2016
Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine -- 3 Flash Stories -- 2012
Willow Springs -- "Monopoly Money" -- 2012
Eureka Literary Magazine -- "Bowling with Spit" -- 2010
Glimmer Train -- "A Handful of Ones" -- 2010
Rio Grande Review -- "Pull" -- 2009
Wisconsin Review -- "Bored Again" -- 2007
Enigma Magazine -- "Someone to Scream With" -- 2005
** Also appeared in the podcast series: Micro -- 2021
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Anthologies
And if That Mocking Bird Don't Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative -- "Darrell" -- Alternating Current Press, 2022
Hunting Ghosts -- "Los Fantasmas" -- Black Oak Media, 2013
Flash in the Attic -- "My Sister Paula" & "Supplemental Oxygen" -- Fiction Attic Press, 2013
Long/Short-Listed
Masters Review -- Reprint Prize -- 2023
Forge Literary Magazine -- Flash Fiction Contest -- 2021
Baltimore Review -- Short Fiction Contest -- 2021
Fractured Lit -- Ghost, Fable & Fractured Fairy Tale Prize -- 2021
Greensboro Review -- Robert Watson Literary Prize -- 2020
Nimrod Journal -- Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction -- 2020
Glimmer Train -- Fiction Open -- 2019
Glimmer Train -- Short-Short Story Contest -- 2013
Iron Horse -- Chapbook Contest -- 2012
Glimmer Train -- Fiction Open -- 2010
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INTERVIEWS
The Forge Literary Magazine -- 2023
Best Microfiction -- 2022
Milk Candy Review -- 2022
Six Questions For... -- 2022
Longfleaf Review -- 2021
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