Randall Brown

Randall Brown is the author of Mad to Live, a collection that sold out in a month and was reprinted by PS Books as a Deluxe Edition.

His work appears in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, The Norton Anthology of Hint Fiction, and Grey House's Critical Insights: American Short Story & Critical Insights: Flash Fiction. 

He has been published and anthologized widely, both online and in print, in places such as American Short Fiction, Mississippi Review, Cream City Review, Harpur Palate, and Chicago Quarterly Review. He is the founder and managing editor of FlashFiction.Net, Matter Press, and The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. 

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Educational Background

• MFA, Creative Writing
  • Fiction Concentration
  • Vermont College

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Selected Publications

Micro and Flash Fiction

• “Distance” Airgonaut Review January 2017

• “Snowed In” Swamp Ape Winter 2017

• “Landslide” Five Points December 2016

• “Disintegration” Jellyfish Review October 2016 

• What a Beautiful Dream” Tishman Review Summer 2016

• “Gravel Into Gold” (w/ Pam Painter) Green Briar Review Spring 2016

• “NeverWet” Exposition Review May 2016

• “Something To Do With Horses” Literary Orphans Spring 2016

• “Climate Change” Bartleby Snopes March 2016

• “Said Is Dead” SmokeLong Quarterly, Fifty December 2015

• “Our Son Turned Us Into Cartoons” pacificREVIEW April 2015

• “Oh, Oh, Oh” Chicago Quarterly Review Spring 2015

• “The Edge” SLAB Spring 2015

• “That Last Trip” Pembroke Magazine Spring 2015

• “The Seven Year Itch” JMWW March 2015

• “I Still Don’t Know What They’re Fighting For” Raleigh Review Winter 2015

• “Boxing Day” SF&D Pushcart Special Edition, Winter 2015

• “In That Way” SF&D Pushcart Special Edition, Winter 2015

• “He Doesn’t Know He’s Dead” SF&D Pushcart Special Edition, Winter 2015

• “There Wasn’t Anyone” SF&D Pushcart Special Edition, Winter 2015

• “Winter Blues, April” SF&D Pushcart Special Edition, Winter 2015

• “Here We Are” Puff Puff Prose Poetry and a Play Vol. III 2015

• “Caught” Adroit Journal Winter 2014/2015

• “Peace” collaboration with Pam Painter, New World Writing Fall 2014

• “Origin” Fiction Southeast Summer 2014

• “We’ll Be Doing This Forever” Spork Press Spring 2014

• “Well” Spork Press Spring 2014

• “Lost in the Supermarket” Bohemia Spring 2014

• “Your Deepest Fear” The Avalon Literary Review Spring 2014

• “Think” Knee-Jerk Spring 2014

• “Oh, How I Had It All Wrong” Rathalla Review Spring 2014

• “Two” Short, Fast, Deadly April 2014

• “Elijah” Crack the Spine Spring Anthology April 2014

• “Eighteen” Dogzplot March 2014

• “Lithopedion” Metazen March 2014

• “Keep It Poppin’” Pank March 2014