DW McKinney

select publications

“Pillow Talk” » forthcoming in hex literary, 2023

“Little Bird” » forthcoming in Janus Literary, 2023

The Shack » hex literary, 2022
*nominated for Best Small Fictions 2023

Cressie Girl and the Creepin Woman » print anthology, These Bewitching Bonds: A Black Girls Create Anthology, edited by Constance Gibbs and Bayana Davis (Black Girls Create and Wizards in Space Magazine, 2021)

Sweets » wigleaf: (very) short fiction
*nominated for Best Microfiction 2021

2022 & earlier

The Shack » hex literary, 2022
*nominated for Best Small Fictions 2023

The Banned Book Table at the Annual Texas Republican Poikilotherm Society Conference » Daily Drunk Mag, 2022

Plant Mother » print anthology, And If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing: Parenting Stories Gone Speculative, edited by Hannah Grieco (Alternating Current Press, January 2022)

Trophies » print anthology, The Elpis Pages: A Collective, edited by Kayla King (December 2021)

Cressie Girl and the Creepin Woman » print anthology, These Bewitching Bonds: A Black Girls Create Anthology, edited by Constance Gibbs and Bayana Davis (Black Girls Create and Wizards in Space Magazine, February 2021)

The Pain Eater » The New Southern Fugitives, 2021

Just Like the Tales Mama Told Me » The New Southern Fugitives
*nominated for 2021 Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses

Cressie Girl and the Creepin Woman » The New Southern Fugitives, 2021

Sweets » wigleaf: (very) short fiction
*nominated for Best Microfiction 2021

Rebirth »The New Southern Fugitives, 2021

Mother of 3 Joins Work Force, Burned at Stake » Sammiches & Psych Meds, 2016