Chelsea Stickle’s debut flash fiction chapbook Breaking Points was the Editor’s Choice in the Spring 2020 Black River Chapbook Competition and was released by Black Lawrence Press on October 26, 2021. Available here.

Her second flash fiction chapbook was released from Thirty West Publishing on January 13, 2023. It contains stories of strangeness. Available here.

Her work appears in The Citron Review, Ghost Parachute, Peatsmoke Journal, Fractured Lit, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others.

Stories from her Screaming Meemies series can be found in Milk Candy Review, Janus Literary, Five South, Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules, The Los Angeles Review and others.

Since 2021, Stickle has been anthologized in Best Microfiction 2021, jmww (2013-2022): A Modern Times Anthology, Moon City Review 2023, Flash Fiction Festival Five, and Healing Visions. In 2022, her micro “If You Want It Bad Enough” was selected for Wigleaf‘s Top 50. In 2023, her micro “Ghost Girl Ballet” was selected for the Wigleaf Longlist. She’s been nominated for Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. In 2019, her story “I Told You I Would Take Your Hand” was a runner-up in the Mslexia Flash Fiction Competition.

She’s been the Flash Editor of Funicular Magazine, an Associate Fiction Editor (Pidgeonholes), Assistant Fiction Editor (Pithead Chapel) and a reader at many magazines (Cease, Cows, Pidgeonholes, Memoir Mixtapes) in the last six years.

From 2023-2024, she co-ran the Shorter is Better book club that focused on chapbooks and novellas from small presses.

She lives in Annapolis, MD with her black rabbit George and a forest of houseplants. In her spare time she embroiders and plays bass.

Find her on Twitter @Chelsea_Stickle, on Bluesky @chelseastickle.bsky.social and on Instagram @Stickle_Chelsea.