Bess Winter writes stories
And books. Scroll for some of that.
“‘Signs,’ by Bess Winter . . . is both intimate and tender and uncomfortable and strange.”
A Selection:
“Helena, Montana”
Alaska Quarterly Review Vol. 32 No. 1&2
“You Play With Dolls”
Black Warrior Review 41.2
“A Collector”
SmokeLong Quarterly
“Lord Byron’s Teen Lover, Claire Clairmont”
Alice Blue 27
“How Do You Deal With the Horribly Cruel Things People Have Said to You Throughout Your Life?”
Wigleaf
“A Beautiful Song, Very Melancholy and Very Old”
Ecotone 23
“Signs”
American Short Fiction , Pushcart Prize Anthology 2013, and W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction International
“Are You Running Away?”
Covered With Fur
“Talking Dolls”
Michigan Quarterly Review 55:4
“With their first issue, Covered with Fur sets the fiction bar high with Bess Winter’s story, “Are You Running Away?” . . . Winter uses her floating, ethereal narratives to show us a few of the broken and shifting perspectives haunting a school.”
A List:
Awards & Fellowships
Ohio Writers’ Prize, Sandra Carpenter Memorial Fund, 2024
Research & Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2020-2022
Pushcart Prize, 2013
Tennessee Williams Scholarship, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2015
Writing Fellowship, Yaddo, Fall 2012
First Place, American Short[er] Fiction Prize, 2011
Fiction, Essays, Poetry
Excerpt from The Collected Works of Walter Potter in Kenyon Review, Fall/Winter 2021
“The Stories You Write About Mimico” in Cincinnati Review, 2020
“Abe Lincoln’s Giant Finger is Missing” in Wigleaf, 2020
“A General Confusion Overtook the Whole Vicinity” in Gettysburg Review, Winter 2018
“A Beautiful Song, Very Melancholy and Very Old” in Ecotone, 2017
“Talking Dolls” in Michigan Quarterly Review, 2017
“Machines of Another Era” in Story, 2016
“Lord Byron’s Teen Lover, Claire Clairmont” in Alice Blue Review 27, Fall 2015
“Helena, Montana” in Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer 2015
“You Play With Dolls” (essay) in Black Warrior Review, Spring/Summer 2015
“Elegant Proof” in Litragger
“I Loved This” in Broken Pencil‘s The Nub (first place, “Unearth Your Underworld” fiction contest, 2014)
“Are You Running Away?” in A Strange Object‘s Covered With Fur, 2014
“Bad” in Indiana Review, 2014
“How Do You Deal With the Horribly Cruel Things People Have Said to You Throughout Your Life?” in Wigleaf, 2013
“The Last Wild Passenger Pigeon” in Wigleaf, 2014
“Daguerreotypes” (1 and 2) in Carousel, 2014
“Elegant Proof” in Bellingham Review, 2013
“A Collector” (with illustration by Sherwin Tjia) in SmokeLong Quarterly, 2012
“The Things Sanchez Knew” in Paper Darts, 2012
“The Garnet Cave” in Versal, 2012
“Make It As Beautiful As You Can” at Barrelhouse online
“Signs” in American Short Fiction [winner, American Short(er) Fiction Prize], Fall 2011
“How to Unravel A Mummy” in Knee-Jerk
“Four Minutes, Thirty-Three Seconds” in Gargoyle 2011
“Any Little Morsel” in Berkeley Fiction Review 2011
“Predictability of Spines” and “The Nurse” in Alice Blue Review
“Men With Own Tuxedos” in PANK
“The Man Sitting Behind You Is A Serial Rapist” in Wigleaf
“English Butler, Ohio” in JMWW
“One Way” in Pindeldyboz
“Why Ugly Children Disappear” (poem) in Adbusters “Media Lit” July/Aug 2005
“The Bridge at the End of the World” (poem) in Forget Magazine, 2004
“Cafeteria Boy” (text/visual collab with Sherwin Tjia) in Kiss Machine “Love and Stars”, 2004
“Home Sweet Home” in Rising to a Tension (Cumulus Press Tendril Anthology Series), 2003
Articles & Interviews
Interviewed by Sarah Hume for Story magazine
Review: Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman for Cincinnati Review
Interview and writing exercise on Read to Write Stories
Review: John O’Hara’s New York Stories for PANK
On Dan Hoyt’s “Here I Am” at Cincinnati Review Blog
On Bernard Malamud’s “The Magic Barrel” at Missouri Review blog
Interviewed by Daniel Cecil at Versal
Interviewed by Marian Oman at American Short Fiction
“The Last Book I Loved” in The Rumpus
Interviewed by J. Bradley at PANK
Interview: “The End of Flawnt” for JMWW
Review: Ron Tanner’s Kiss Me, Stranger, in The Mid-American Review
Review: Zoe Zolbrod’s Currency, in The Mid-American Review