Charmaine Wilkerson was born in New York, has lived in the Caribbean, and does most of her writing in Italy. Her work has appeared in Best Microfiction and other anthologies and magazines. She is the author of the award-winning novella How to Make a Window Snake. She has also worked in news and communications.
Charmaine Wilkerson
Writer
Works
NOVELLA-IN-FLASH
How to Make a Window Snake - Ad Hoc Fiction (UK)
Winner, Bath Novella-in-Flash Award 2017
Winner, Best Novella, Saboteur Awards 2018
SELECTED SHORT STORIES
Litro Magazine - Bite (selected to appear in Best Microfiction 2020)
New Flash Fiction Review - Canyon Vista
FlashFlood Journal - American Music (from the novella-in-flash, How to Make a Window Snake)
FlashBack Fiction - Balm
Reflex Fiction - Anger Management - Winner, Winter 2017 Prize
100 Word Story - Row
Bending Genres - Holes
Fiction Southeast - The Laundry Room Comes First - Winner, Ernest Hemingway Flash Fiction Prize (included in the Best Microfiction 2019 anthology).
Spelk - Ash
Reflex Fiction - Eyebrows
FlashFlood Journal - What Cats Can Do
50-Word Stories - The Wager
ANTHOLOGIES
Things Left and Found by the Side of the Road (Bath Flash Fiction anthology) - Diagram of a Human Heart
Ripening: 2018 National Flash-Fiction Day Anthology - Pull
The Lobsters Run Free (Bath Flash Fiction anthology) - Musk
To Carry Her Home (Bath Flash Fiction) - Five Months and
Three Scenes from a Tropical Island
Flash Fiction Festival One - The Pirate's House (also printed in Project Calm Magazine)
SELECTED ESSAYS
The Common - Island Lessons
Fiction Southeast - A Review of Alligators at Night by Meg Pokrass
BBC Radio 4's The Art of Now: Inbox - Our Holiday (at 6:40)
(b)OINK - A Hot Summer
The American | In Italia - Ghost Town
The American | In Italia - A Moveable Feast
Thanks to Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, Bread Loaf in Sicily and Flash Fiction Retreats for providing residential writing programs.
CONTACT
© 2017 C. Wilkerson
Photos by R. Cheever & C. Wilkerson