Elizabeth Rosen's Chapbook Release July 2nd, 8pm NYC Time
Come celebrate the release of Elizabeth Rosen’s Survival Skills with a reading featuring Pegah Ouji, Ani King, Sumitra Singam, Jaime Gill, Travis Flatt, and Dawn Tasaka Steffler. Link in _______
In Survival Skills, Elizabeth Rosen’s richly varied chapbook of flash fiction and short stories, characters push and pull against each other, flee, and do whatever it takes to get by. Two sisters—one who survived abuse in the family—pack up their deceased parents’ home and decide if there’s anything left worth keeping. A high school senior smokes a joint on the dock with his younger brother and the two young men lament their uncertain futures. In the title story, a woman seeks casual sex in order to survive the grief and uncertainty caused by her husband’s debilitating stroke. Beloved pets die, bodies bruise, and nobody makes it out unscathed. In these seven stories—often surprising, sometimes harrowing, but always rendered in Elizabeth Rosen’s confident, exacting prose—we’re reminded of what it means to be human.
Elizabeth Rosen’s stories have appeared in journals such as the North American Review, Baltimore Review, Pithead Chapel, New Flash Fiction Review and Flash Frog. She mourns the loss of Tab and still wants her MTV. If you'd like to know more about her writing, you can check out www.thewritelifeliz.com.
ALSO FEATURING
Ani King (they/them) is a queer, gender non-compliant writer and artist from Michigan. They are the first-place winner of the 2024 Blue Frog Annual Flash Fiction Contest, a SmokeLong Grand Micro Competition 2023 finalist, and have additional work featured in SmokeLong Quarterly, Split Lip Magazine, Fractured Lit, Exposition Review, Wigleaf, and other terrific publications. Most recently, Ani is a 2025 SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Fellow, with work on the Wigleaf Top 50 Long List, coming soon in Best Small Fictions 2025 and Family Night: Stories forthcoming with Mason Jar Press in 2026. Find Ani online at Aniking.net, on Bsky, and on Instagram.
Sumitra Singam is a queer, neurodiverse Malaysian-Indian-Australian coconut who writes in Naarm/Melbourne. Her work has been published widely, nominated for a number of Best Of anthologies, and was selected for BSF 2025. She works as a psychiatrist and trauma therapist and runs workshops on how to write trauma safely, and the Yeah Nah reading series. She’ll be the one in the kitchen making chai (where’s your cardamom?). You can find her and her other publication credits on Bluesky: @pleomorphic2 & sumitrasingam.squarespace.com
Jaime Gill is a queer, British-born writer happily exiled in Cambodia, where he works and volunteers for nonprofits. He reads, runs, boxes, travels, writes, and occasionally socializes. His stories have appeared in Fractured Lit, Trampset, f(r)iction and more. He’s won awards including a Bridport Prize, the Luminaire Prose Award and New Millennium Writers Award, and been a finalist for the Bath Short Story Award, SmokeLong Grand Micro Prize, and Oxford Flash Fiction Award. He’s also a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. He’s currently writing a novel, script, and many more short stories. Find more of his writing at www.jaimegill.com
Pegah Ouji is an Iranian American writer who writes in Farsi and English; her work has appaered or is forthcoming from EPOCH, Joyland, Epiphany, Fugue, and Split Lip, among other publications.
Travis Flatt (he/him) is an epileptic teacher and actor living in Cookeville, Tennessee. His stories appear or are forthcoming with Pithead Chapel, Monkeybicycle, Ghost Parachute, Vestal Review, Fractured Lit, Flash Frog, and elsewhere. His first flash fiction chapbook Five Stories (Sand and Gravel) was released in 2025. He was a 2026 SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow, won Iron Horse Literary Review’s 2025 PhotoFinish contest, and has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, and longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50.
Dawn Tasaka Steffler is an Asian-American writer from Hawaii who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow, Winner of the Bath Flash Fiction Award, Finalist in Fractured Lit’s Flash Fiction OPEN, and selected for Best Small Fictions and an Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color 2025 (EastOver Press). Forthcoming work is in Flash the Court, Waxwing, and Cutleaf. Find her online at dawntasakasteffler.com and on BlueSky, Instagram, and Facebook.