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I like people's years in review. Here's mine:
My first-ever flash was accepted by the marvelous @JellyfishReview https://jellyfishreview.wordpress.com/2020/06/22/listen-by-nicole-vanderlinden/
My defense of a wicked stepmother (I'm a stepmom--we're not all wicked, I swear!) appeared in the great @PitheadChapel https://pitheadchapel.com/gingerbread/
(And this piece went on to get nominated for BSF--my first ever)
This piece appeared in the fabulous @MoonParkReview, and I was proud to get my first-ever Pushcart nomination https://moonparkreview.com/issue-thirteen-fall-2020/pim/
I won a contest! Lauren Groff (who I love love love) picked my story "The Names You Choose" as the winner of @NewOhioReview's Fiction Prize, and I was over the moon a second time when this piece was also nominated for a Pushcart.
The very cool team at @xraylitmag published my story about a strange couple and a bear https://xraylitmag.com/apex-predators-by-nicole-vanderlinden/fiction/
I took a @SmokeLong flash workshop and it was the best writing-related thing I did in quarantine times. So so good. And later, a pub dream came true for me and they published one of my pieces http://www.smokelong.com/a-bee-story/
I love @AtticusReview and was happy to have a story with them about storms and separations https://atticusreview.org/collisions/
I found out (masked!) in the biggest grocery story I've ever been in that @TheFLReview's Aquifer would be publishing this story, and I was so excited that I didn't even mind being lost for the next 20 minutes https://floridareview.cah.ucf.edu/article/the-crypt-of-civilization/
I got to be a part of @nationalflashfd, which was an exciting event to follow and read http://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2020/06/from-phoenix-with-love-by-nicole.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=dlvr.it
