Patty Somlo

Patty Somlo’s books include From Here to There and Other Stories (Paraguas Books), The First to Disappear (Spuyten Duyvil), Hairway to Heaven Stories (Cherry Castle Publishing), and Even When Trapped Behind Clouds: A Memoir of Quiet Grace (WiDo Publishing, 2016). Three of them have been finalists for independent book awards. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Guernica, Gravel, Sheepshead Review, Under the Sun, the Los Angeles Review, The Nassau Review, and over 30 anthologies. She received Honorable Mention for Fiction in the Women’s National Book Association Contest, was a Finalist in the Parks and Points Fall 2019 Essay Contest, and she had an essay selected as Notable for Best American Essays 2014. Find her here or on Twitter.

Outta Here

Update about Fiction Submissions (PLEASE READ)

Hello! Please be advised that accepted FICTION submissions are now being scheduled into 2026. That is quite a ways away, we know, but it also means that we’ve got enough great fiction scheduled for the rest of 2024 and ALL of 2025!

We just want to mention this for anyone still waiting for decisions or submitting.

PRINT ANTHOLOGIES!

We’ve released several print anthologies! Please check it out (as well our previous ones) and maybe even spread the word and/or purchase some? We’d be very grateful and humbled 🙂

Give and Receive!

We still have leftover stock from AWP, so if you hit the support us! button below and donate $20 or more, you’ll receive a free 2014, 2015, or 2016 print anthology (your choice, obviously) and a free magnet (upon request)!! What are you waiting for?