COYOTE GIRL: Stories by Sabrina Hicks
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“A stunning collection of short fiction set in the American Southwest.” —Kirkus Review (Starred Review)
Fiction:
“Deli Boys” — BULL Magazine
“Assholes” — Bullshit Lit, (Pushcart nom)
“Coyote, Bones, Howl” — Fractured Lit
“Rattlesnakes” — Cowboy Jamboree, April issue of “Tough Women, Gritty Tales”
“Saguaro” — 100 Word Story
“Cowboy Titanium” — Cowboy Jamboree, “Texas Wind” Anthology, (Nom for BSF)
“Side A: Violent Femmes” — Roi Fainéant Press, May 2024 (LL for Wigleaf Top 50)
“Pick Me Girl” — Tiny Molecules, Spring 2024 issue
“Pioneer Girl” — Bath Flash Fiction anthology, Dec. 2023
“Where the Brittlebrush Bloom” — Third Eye Sockeye Press, Anthology
“There is No Advice I’d Give to My 16-Year-Old Self” — Exposition Review (Honorable Mention in Flash 405 Contest)
“Succession” — Maudlin House
“When We Knew How to Get Lost” — Cleaver Magazine, First Place Winner, Flash Fiction Contest, Issue 40 (2022); anthologized in Vol. 1, Issue 3 of Stone Gatherings (2023)
“Object Permanence” — JMWW Journal
“Farrago” — Flash Frog (BSF Nomination, 2023)
“Potential” — Stanchion Issue 9, Summer 2022, Print only (BMF 2023)
“All Water Holds a Memory” — Five South Journal (First Place Winner, 2022 Spring Flash Fiction Contest).
“Coyote Girl” — Necessary Fiction
“Fire Season” — Pidgeonholes (BSF Nomination, 2022)
“When the Cowboy Separates the Calves for Branding” — Emerge Literary Journal (BMF 2023)
“Little Lady” — Trampset
“Olympus Mons” — Monkeybicycle (BSF Nomination, 2022)
“Eight Seconds” — Reckon Review (Noms for Best of Net and Best Microfiction, 2022)
“Suburban Flight” — Fractured Lit
“Scar Tissue” — New Flash Fiction Review (Wigleaf 2022 Longlist, Nom for Best Micro, 2022)
“Animal Brain” — Ghost Parachute
“My Drugstore Queen” — Milk Candy Review (Nom for BSF, 2021); Two Questions
“Rock Collection” — CHEAP POP (Nom for Pushcart, 2020)
“Buying Raindrops” — Atlas + Alice (Included in Best Small Fictions 2021)
“Writing Prompts and Changing Views” — X-R-A-Y
“Extraterrestre” — Barren Magazine (Wigleaf Top 50, 2021)
“Dead Animal Pick Up” — Bending Genres
“The Synchronicity of Water” — Lost Balloon
“Catching Rose Baxter in Room 9” — 100 Word Story
“Drill” — Matchbook (Wigleaf Top 50, 2020; Noms for Pushcart, BSF, BMF)
“Where the Hummingbirds Go” — Ellipsis Zine (Nom for Pushcart, ’19)
“Synonyms for Extraction” — MoonPark Review (Nom BSF, ’19)
“The Dead Ringer” — Pigeon Pages
“Home of Specimen Gardeners” — Barren Magazine (Editor’s Choice)
“If I Could Tell You” — Synaesthesia Magazine (Honorable Mention Best Micro ’19); Appearing in Flash Flood 2020
“Memorial of Imaginary Lines” — The Sunlight Press (Noms for Best of Net ’19, Pushcart)
“To Arizona” — Third Point Press
“Carriage” — Literary Mama (Nom for Best Small Fiction ’19); “After Page One”
“Underwater” — 100 Word Story
“The Distance Between Neighbors” — Spelk Fiction
“The View” — Toasted Cheese Literary Journal
“The Toast” — 101 Words
“Fast Food Warfare” — The Drabble
CNF:
“Bone Memory” — Identity Theory, June Solstice Micro Issue
“Preskit” — South Florida Poetry Journal (Nov. 2024) BON Nom 2025
“Skywriting” — River Teeth Journal
“Twenty Minutes” — Brevity and republished in Sugar Sugar Salt Magazine (Sept 2023)
“Walking Contradictions” — Split Lip Magazine (Best of the Net Nom, 2020)
“The Shedding Process” — Pithead Chapel
“Beachcombers” — Pidgeonholes
Poetry:
“Contemplating Gravity on 180 Greenwich Street” — Rat’s Ass Review
“Lab Art of a Half-Life” — Gyroscope Review
“The Position of Sun” — Panoply
“Lost” — Poetry Breakfast
“Peddling Sweets in the Back Bay” — Silver Birch Press
“The Color of Poppies” — The Drabble (Editor’s Choice)
“Camouflage,” “It’s a Girl”, “The Life Cycle of Thoughts and Prayers” — The Drabble
Awards & Lists:
“There is No Advice I’d Give to My 16-Year-Old Self” — Exposition Review, Honorable Mention, Flash 405
“When We Knew How to Get Lost” — Cleaver Magazine, Flash Fiction Contest 2022, First Place Winner, Issue 40
“All Water Holds a Memory” — Five South Journal, 2022 Spring Flash Fiction Contest, First Place Winner
“Potential” — Stanchion Issue 9, Summer 2022, Print only (Best Micro Fiction 2023)
“When the Cowboy Separates the Calves for Branding” — Emerge Literary Journal (Best Micro Fiction 2023)
“Buying Raindrops” — Atlas + Alice (Best Small Fictions 2021)
“Extraterrestre” — Wigleaf Top 50 (2021), Barren Magazine
“Drill” — Wigleaf Top 50 (2020), Matchbook
“Blink” — Grand Prize Winner, Writer’s Digest 85th Annual Writing Competition (2016)
“If I Could Tell You” — Honorable Mention, Best Micro Fiction 2019, Synaesthesia Magazine; Flash Flood Journal
Interviews:
Writer’s Digest — Interview in Nov/Dec 2016 issue
Auraist — “Coyote Girl” Interview after being chosen Best Book of the Month
