Charmaine Wilkerson
Writer
Charmaine Wilkerson is from New York, has lived in the Caribbean, and does much of her writing in Italy. Her award-winning stories have appeared in various US and UK anthologies and magazines and her debut novel Black Cake is scheduled for publication in 2022. She is represented by Madeleine Milburn at the Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency.
Works
NOVELLA-IN-FLASH
How to Make a Window Snake - Ad Hoc Fiction (UK)
A story of identity, family and perseverance against the odds.
Winner, Bath Novella-in-Flash Award 2017
Winner, Best Novella, Saboteur Awards 2018
SELECTED SHORT STORIES
New Flash Fiction Review - Purr
Litro Magazine - Bite (selected for the Best Microfiction 2020 anthology)
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 + Far from this Howling Corner
Bending Genres - Holes
Fiction Southeast - The Laundry Room Comes First - Winner, Ernest Hemingway Flash Fiction Prize (selected for the Best Microfiction 2019 anthology).
Spelk - Ash
Reflex Fiction - Eyebrows
FlashFlood Journal - What Cats Can Do
ANTHOLOGIES
Best Microfiction 2020 - Bite
Best Microfiction 2019 - The Laundry Room Comes First
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 - Second Prize, Microfiction Competition
The Lobsters Run Free (Bath Flash Fiction anthology) - Musk
To Carry Her Home (Bath Flash Fiction) - Five Months +
Three Scenes from a Tropical Island
Flash Fiction Festival One - The Pirate's House (also printed in Project Calm Magazine)
SELECTED ESSAYS
The American | In Italia - A Moveable Feast
The Common - Island Lessons
Fiction Southeast - A Review of Alligators at Night by Meg Pokrass
The American | In Italia - Ghost Town
GUEST JUDGE/READER FOR
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Bath Flash Fiction Award
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New Flash Fiction Review
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National Flash Fiction Day 2019 & 2020
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SmokeLong Quarterly
Many thanks to Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center and Bread Loaf in Sicily for providing space in their residential writing programs.
CONTACT
© 2017 C. Wilkerson
Photos by R. Cheever & C. Wilkerson