Emily Rinkema
writer of short things
Publications
Contests & Awards
-
Winner of the Lascaux Prize for Flash Fiction 2024 for "Five Things," originally published in SmokeLong Quarterly.
-
Second place in Oxford Flash Fiction Contest 2024: "The Worst-Case Scenario."
-
First place in Cambridge Prize (TSS Publishing), September 2024: "Next Exit"
-
Second place in Bath Flash Fiction Contest June 2024: "Driving My Seven Year Old Nephew to Visit His Mother in Rehab"
-
Second place in SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition 2023: "The Great Butter Baby Championship"
-
Short List in Oxford Flash Fiction Contest 2023: "My Father, Retired Physics Professor, Explains it All"
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 BS 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.