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FICTION
Micro-Fiction (>300 words)
January 20, 2022 — “Like Real Women Do” — Okay Donkey Magazine
October 27, 2022 — “At the Only Friendly’s Open When the World Ends” — CHEAP POP
October 18, 2022 — “Sugar, Baby” — Five South Lit
March 25, 2022 — “At the Risk of Missing My Heart” — The Flash Fiction Festival Anthology: Volume Four
January 1, 2021 — “Bite” — Passages North
July 31, 2020 — “In The Dark Room” — HOOT Review
July 17, 2018 — "The Widow's Crow" —MeowMeowPowPow
June 28, 2018 — "Three Strikes" — Ellipsis Zine: Three
May 8, 2017 — "Fugitives" — 50-Word Stories
Flash Fiction (301 - 1,000 words)
November 2, 2022 — “How We Survive” — Lost Balloon
October 18, 2022 — “So Many Clowns” — Five South Lit.
September 26, 2022 — “Black Bottom Swamp Bottle Woman” — The Rumpus
September 19, 2022 — “Where Have All the Children Gone” — Fractured Lit.
October 27, 2021 — “How to Fail a Job Interview or Why You’re the Only Wannabe Librarian Here” — Good River Review
June 22, 2021 — “Define a Good Woman” — Waxwing Magazine
June 14, 2021 — “Remember, Bob Marley is Dead” — matchbook
June 3, 2021 — “Fortune’s Wish” — Best Short Stories of Philadelphia 2021 (Toho Publishing)
April 6, 2021 — “Your Husband Wants to be a Cardboard Cutout at the Last Blockbuster on Earth” — Bending Genres
March 11, 2021 — “A Lethal Woman” — No Contact
December 24, 2020 — “Abernathy_Resume.docx” — Porcupine Literary
October 29, 2020 — “My Brother Scarecrow” — Apiary Magazine
October 16, 2020 — “This is a Story About a Fox” — Jellyfish Review
September 14, 2020 — “In Exchange for the Final Pudding Cup, We Offer Our Inner Thoughts” — The Offing
September 14, 2020 — “A Letter to My Breasts” — The Offing
September 4, 2020 — “For the Love of Gertrude Stein” — Mineral Lit. Mag
May 6, 2020 — “Notes for My Latest Bookkeeper Regarding the Maintenance of My Library While I’m Touring 50 Indie Bookstores in 50 Days” — Little Fiction | Big Truths
March 19, 2020 — “In the Lantern Room,” a collaboration with artist Kiley Lee — 7x7
February 7, 2020 — “Hello, My Name Is Marley” — CRAFT Literary Magazine
November 24, 2019 — "Poesy" — Rhythm and Bones Lit: Issue 6
October 26, 2019 — "Glass" — X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Special Issue: BONEYWARD
September 11, 2019 — "These Worn Bodies" — Flash Frontier
August 1, 2019 — "One Last Pirouette" — Homology Lit.
August 1, 2019 — "Sausage People" — Homology Lit.
July 31, 2019 — "Soba" — Black Warrior Review, Online: Fox Boyfriend Village
May 28, 2019 — "Unavailable" — Round Table Literary Journal, Volume 53
April 9, 2019 — "Something Between Them" — CHEAP POP
March 13, 2019 — "Vagabond Mannequin" — Jellyfish Review
January 24, 2019 — "Dandelion" — Milk Candy Review
January 1, 2019 — "Sylke" — Twist in Time
November 1, 2018 — "Mine" — formercactus
October 1, 2018 — "White Ribbons" — Lost Balloon
September 12, 2018 — "Sweetness" — Z Publishing House’s Pennsylvania’s Emerging Writers
August 15, 2018 — "Draft No. 1" — Pidgeonholes
June 17, 2018 — "Katherine" — The Molotov Cocktail, Volume 9, Issue 3
June 16, 2018 — "Breathe" — National Flash Fiction Day's FlashFlood
February 26, 2018 — "Tyn" — FlashBack Fiction
December 14, 2017 — "Relocation" — Fiction Southeast
September 7, 2016 — "Embers" — Sick. Lit. Magazine
Short Stories (1,001 - 7,500 words)
March 9, 2023 — “Farewell, Space Drifter” — F(r)iction Magazine
January 20, 2019 — "Paper Darts" — Typehouse Literary Magazine
October 8, 2018 — "Remnants" — Barrelhouse, Special Issue: VILLAINS
June 22, 2018 — "That Feeling of Life" — The Cabinet of Heed, Issue 10
January 15, 2018 — "The Stirrings of Magpies" — MAKE Literary Productions, Issue 17: BELONGING
October 30, 2017 — "Veins" — The WomenArts Quarterly Journal Volume 7, Issue 3
October 17, 2017 — "Feather Red" — The Offbeat, Issue 18
June 1, 2017 — "Them Quiet Hours" — Scribes Valley Publishing
October 7, 2015 — "Gone Fishing" — Pennyshorts
AWARDS/NOMINATIONS
“Black Bottom Swamp Bottle Woman” — The Rumpus — Selected for Wigleaf Top 50 (2023)
“So Many Clowns” — Five South Lit. — Nominated for Best Small Fictions, 2022
“Where Have All the Children Gone” — Fractured Lit. — Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2022
“Abernathy_Resume.docx” — Porcupine Literary — Selected for 2022 Best of the Net Anthology, 2022
“Remember, Bob Marley is Dead” — matchbook — Nominated for Best Small Fictions, 2021
“A Lethal Woman” — No Contact — Selected for 2022 Best Small Fictions, 2021
“In Exchange for the Final Pudding Cup, We Offer Our Inner Thoughts” — The Offing — Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, 2020
“In The Dark Room” — HOOT Review — Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, 2020
"Poesy" — Rhythm and Bones Lit: Issue 6 — Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, 2019
"Soba" — Black Warrior Review, Online: Fox Boyfriend Village — Selected for Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net Anthology, 2019
"Unavailable" — Round Table Literary Journal, Volume 53 — Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, 2019
"Something Between Them" — CHEAP POP — Nominated for Best Small Fictions, 2019
"Vagabond Mannequin" — Jellyfish Review — Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, 2019
"White Ribbons" — Lost Balloon — Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, 2018
"Remnants" — Barrelhouse, Special Issue: VILLAINS — Nominated for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net, 2018
"Tyn" — FlashBack Fiction — Nominated for Sundress Publications' Best of the Net, The Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and the VERA Award, 2018
"Them Quiet Hours" — Scribes Valley Publishing — 1st place in Scribes Valley Publishing's Short Story Contest, 2017
CREATIVE NONFICTION (CNF)
Micro-CNF (>300 words)
March 10, 2023 — “A Reminiscence of High School Required Reading that Triggered My Search for the Black Protagonist” — SugarSugarSalt, first published in HAD
Flash CNF (301 - 1,000 words)
September 13, 2022 — “Symptoms of a Mistreated Heart” — JMWW
May 10, 2021 — “My Grandmother Picks Fights with Contestants on the Price is Right” — Hippocampus Magazine
March 15, 2019 — "Waze Navigational Guide to Color Absorption" — genre2
February 15, 2019 — "Submersion" — Nightingale & Sparrow
Essays (1,001 - 7,500 words)
April 16, 2020 — “What It's Like Working at a Grocery Store During COVID-19” — Shondaland
AWARDS/NOMINATIONS
“My Grandmother Picks Fights with Contestants on the Price is Right” — Hippocampus Magazine — Winner of Inaugural Drunkie Award for Best Title, Nominated for Best of the Net, 2021
POETRY
January 27, 2022 — “Nature Sightings Outside My Window” — The Bureau Dispatch
INTERVIEWS
A Conversation with K.B. Carle Part 1, StoryADay Podcast (March 2023)
Getting Unstuck, a Conversation with K.B. Carle, Part 2, StoryADay Podcast (March 2023)
Episode #36: That Feeling of Life, Short Story Today (January 2023)
Two Questions for K.B. Carle, Milk Candy Review (January 2019)
Backstory: Five Questions with K.B. Carle, FlashBack Fiction (March 2018)