Stories:
“The Virgins of San Nicolas,” forthcoming in Masters Review New Voices, May 2022.
“Lucky, Lucky, Lucky,” winner of the Salamander Fiction Prize. Fall/Winter 2021-2022.
“The Art of Storytelling,” in Noyo Review, Summer 2021.
“The Ghost Writer,” in Catamaran, Summer 2020.
“Cuca’s Boy,” Booth, May 1, 2020.
“Moon, Me,” Atticus Review, November 2019.
“Lost Girls,” Necessary Fiction, April 2019. And a Longform Fiction Pick of the Week.
“Serenade, 2050,” Gone Lawn, December 2018.
“A Conversation,” Jellyfish Review, October 19, 2018.
“Many Things Have Happened Since You Died,” Washington Square Review, Spring 2018.
“Honest. Open. Willing,” Tin House Flash Friday, July 29, 2017.
“Pobrecitas,” story, The Bitter Oleander, Fall 2016.
“Nobody’s Business,” Raleigh Review, Fall 2016.
“Real Talk,” Lunchticket, July 2016. “Real Talk” was read by Mariana Seda at the Stories on Stage Davis event in February and can be accessed here.
“When Men Hunted Polar Bears,” Necessary Fiction, September 2015.
“Almost,” Fifth Wednesday Journal, Spring 2015, winner of the Editor’s Prize, nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
“A Defense,” Black Heart Magazine, Spring 2014.
“Miss Martha,” Bartleby Snopes, 2013.
“How to Write a Hardship Letter,” SmokeLong Quarterly, 2013.
“Her Third Baby,” Talking Writing, November 2013.
Essays
“Empire of School,” winner of the 2016 NCTE/Norman Mailer High School English Teacher Writing Award. https://cdn.ncte.org/nctefiles/about/awards/mailer/2016winners/teacher_simmonsennicole.pdf
“My Mother’s Mantra,” Talking Writing, December 2015.
“The Shadow of Mulberry Lane,” Full Grown People, August 2014.
Poetry
“The Marshmallow Test,” Blue Heron Review, Summer 2014.
“Nine,” Brain, Child, Winter 2013.
Nicole Simonsen 