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Fiction Potluck Finalists: April '25
- The Writer's Workout
- Jun 7
- 3 min read
Fiction Potluck is so fun because we never know what we'll see! Here are April's Fiction Potluck Finalists for the ocean challenge.
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April Finalists
Danielle Ellis
Danielle Ellis is a designer by day and a writer by night. She writes speculative fiction and slice-of-life tales. Her hobbies include reading, writing, and running a Sims 4 gaming channel.
Website: Danifellis.com
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@jeniouisplays
Kara Fortuna
Kara Fortuna is a writer and historian living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has a BA in Creative Writing from UC Santa Cruz. Her work has appeared in Plate of Pandemic, Livina Press, where it won second prize in the 2024 fiction contest, as well as other locations. According to her children, she interviews old houses for a living.
Greg Frohring
greg frohring – writer and poet by night, multiple degrees, multiple publications, software architect and developer, amateur musician, wave enthusiast. Keep writing - we will take turns – winning is someone’s whim: competition is a blight. Keep writing; continue growing in knowledge and compassion (always with, never to). Keep writing.
Joanna Galbraith
Joanna Galbraith is an Australian-born writer known for her imaginative storytelling and lyrical prose. Her fiction has appeared in journals, magazines, and podcasts, including the acclaimed Clockwork Phoenix series. She is also a poet, contributing to platforms such as Fevers of the Mind. She writes whenever she can, guided by the discerning eye of her feline editor, Pirate.
Avishi Gurnani
Avishi Gurnani (avishigurnani.com) is a passionate author. She has published books including Ties of Hope, a story about an ancient cruel Indian practice called sati, where a wife would be forced to sacrifice herself on her own funeral pyre. In her free time, she loves to play tennis, the piano and spend time with her little brother.
Aki Jackson
My name is Aki Jackson, I live in California in the United States, and I am a senior in high school. For the past few years of my life since middle school, I had pretty much stopped writing, but in these recent months, my love for writing was rekindled and now flourishes, thanks to my creative writing class at school which reintroduced me to the beauty and necessity of portraying ideas, thoughts, and images through words.
Shirlee Jellum
Shirlee Jellum is a retired English teacher who publishes fiction, nonfiction and poetry, most recently in WordPeace, WayWords, Persimmon Tree and several anthologies.
Thea T. Kelley
Thea T. Kelley is a nonfiction author, novelist and short story writer. Her stories have been published in Lamplit Underground; Jake, the Antiliterary Magazine, and Spank the Carp. Fun fact: Thea has more than once been the only person dancing at a concert (in the back row). Facebook: Thea.Kelley
Stephen O'Connor
Stephen O'Connor is a writer from Lowell, Massachusetts; he lives on the street where Jack Kerouac once lived.
His work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Aethlon, The Amsterdam Quarterly, and
elsewhere. For more information on Stephen O'Connor's novels and short story collections, visit lowellwriter.com.
Mark F. Owens
Mark F. Owens is an old guy who has found the time to write. He has stories in two anthologies and his debut novel, The Weight of the Gods, is available on Amazon.
He recently began documenting his adventures on Substack.
He enjoys traveling with his wife of forty years and napping on the couch with his dog, Lola. In his spare time, he drives a school bus.
This quarter is officially sponsored by Duotrope; the first place winner of this quarter's challenge receives Duotrope service for free for two years
(valued at $100)!
Join us here on June 20 for Fiction Potluck Friday
to read the winning pieces!
Special thanks to this quarter's guest judge,
Alyson Tait!
Alyson Tait lives in Maryland with her husband, daughter, and two pets. She has appeared in (mac)ro(mic), HAD, and Wrongdoing Magazine, and Pseudopod. She has three chapbooks (published by Querencia Press, Bottlecap Press, and Fahmidan Publishing) and several novellas on Amazon.
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