Emily Rinkema
writer of short things
Journals and Magazines
It was an honor to have my words published in each one of these amazing publications. I also want to thank the tiny journals that published some of my earliest work--journals that are no longer in business (not because of my writing...hopefully...). Please support writers like me by subscribing to literary journals!
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Contests & Awards
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Winner of the Lascaux Prize for Flash Fiction 2024 for "Five Things," originally published in SmokeLong Quarterly.
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Second place in Oxford Flash Fiction Contest 2024: "The Worst-Case Scenario."
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First place in Cambridge Prize (TSS Publishing), September 2024: "Next Exit"
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Second place in Bath Flash Fiction Contest June 2024: "Driving My Seven Year Old Nephew to Visit His Mother in Rehab"
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Second place in SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition 2023: "The Great Butter Baby Championship"
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Short List in Oxford Flash Fiction Contest 2023: "My Father, Retired Physics Professor, Explains it All"
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First Place in Sixfold Summer 2018 Fiction Contest: "Child A"
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First Place in Sixfold Summer 2021 Fiction Contest: "You've Got to be Vigilant, Wes"
Anthologies
Includes "probability", longlisted for the Bath Flash Fiction Competition.
I'm Emily Rinkema, a writer from a small town in northern Vermont, USA.
I have been writing stories since I was eleven (I just found my first ever short story--ambitious and full of spelling errors, it told the epic tale of a colony of alien rabbits), and now, in my early 50s, I am finally getting the hang of it...and making fewer spelling errors.
I have recently fallen madly in love with flash fiction, so I imagine that from this moment on, the additions to this page will likely be really short. Feel free to reach out to me at emilyrinkema@gmail.com or follow me on X or IG @emilyrinkema
And buy copies of literary journals whenever you can so that readers and writers like me can keep doing what we love.