Publications

Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction

2024 Flare: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Told in Flash Narratives (working title), edited and compiled by April Bradley. Ad Hoc Fiction: Bath, United Kingdom. forthcoming.

2023 Woman, Scarecrow, FlashFlood an International Flash-Fiction Journal for National Flash Fiction Day (NFFD). June 24.

2023 “Death Wants Another Paloma,” Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself, Issue 2 The Dying Light. February 21.

2022 “Social Time” in “Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Here Are Some Personal Essays For You” Memoir Monday. July 19. reprint.

2022 “Encoded.” A collaboration with John Buhrmann. Gone Lawn 45. June 21.

2022 ”The Divergent Worlds of Ada Isherwood.” FlashFlood an International Flash-Fiction Journal for National Flash Fiction Day (NFFD). June 18.

2022 “Like Water Flowing.” CRAFT Literary. February 28. Nominated for Best of the Net Anthology 2023.

2022 “Sugar Spun.” South Florida Poetry Journal. Issue 24. February 2. Nominated for Best of the Net Anthology 2023.

2021 “Social Time.” jmww. Oct. 28. Nominated for The Pushcart Prize and The Best American Essays.

2021 “You’re Lookin’ at Country.” FlashFlood an International Flash-Fiction Journal for National Flash Fiction Day (NFFD). June 21. Nominated for Best of the Net Anthology 2022.

2021 “Lucky Lucky Tinsel Cake.” The Mega Meganthology. New Flash Fiction Review. April 1. Nominated for The Best Microfiction Anthology 2022.

2021 “Lux.” Heavy Feather Review, January 12.

2020 “Nightfood Menu” and “Miniature Kitchen.” Blink Ink. Issue 41 Home Cooking—”Miniature Kitchen” Nominated for The Pushcart Prize and The Best Microfiction Anthology 2021.

2019 “The Taste Of Ink On Our Skin.” Blink Ink. Issue 36 Summer Romance.

2019 “Gigantic.” FlashFlood an International Flash-Fiction Journal for National Flash Fiction Day (NFFD). June 15, reprint.

2019 “The Café Where We Sell Happiness.” Mosh Lit. May 27.

2018 “Gigantic.” Hypertrophic Literary. Fall 2018.

2018 “Heretic.” FlashFlood an International Flash-Fiction Journal for National Flash Fiction Day (NFFD). July 16, reprint.

2018 “La piccola veglia.” Tuffi Rivista. Traduzione di Antontio Bosco. Italian transliation of “Little Wake” by Antonio Bosco first published by CHEAP POP. 22 maggio/May.

2017 “Worlds of Ada Isherwood.” Kitty Wang’s American Gazette, Winter 2017.

2017 “Memories in the Park.”  A collaboration prompted by Kamilah Aisha Moon’s poem, “Memory in the Park” with Paul Beckman, Audra Kerr Brown, Gay Degani, Hillary Leftwich, Jan Ellman Stout, A.E. Weisgerber, and Nan Wigington.—Finalist in the 2017 Sundog Lit Summer Collaboration Contest.

2017 Contributor to Writing & Selling Short Stories & Personal Essays: The Essential Guide To Getting Your Work Published, by Windy Lynn Harris,  Reader’s Digest Books, Cincinnati.

2017 “Acetone Smells Like Death.” FlashFlood an International Flash-Fiction Journal for National Flash Fiction Day (NFFD). July 24, reprint.

2017 “Little Wake.” CHEAP POP. April 27. Nominated for The Pushcart Prize & for the Best of Small Fictions. 

2017 Voices Contributor.  (b)oink Issue 1, January.

2016 “Heretic.” NANO Fiction. Volume 10.1: THE END. (Fall 2016).

2016 “Thunderbird.” Blue Fifth Review. Fall Quarterly – (Fall 2016 / 16.12). December 6.

2016 “Acetone Smells Like Death.” The Airgonaut. December 1.

2016 “The Queen of Wisconsin.” Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction. November: BIRDS. November 19.

2016 “What Will We Do With All This Grief.” Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, November 7. 2022 Fractured Lit Reprint Prize, Shortlist.

2016  “An Oresteia In Nashville.” Sicklit Magazine. September 6.

2016 “Lambkins.” SickLit Magazine. July 27.

2016 “A Mermaid’s Purse Is Also Called A Devil’s Pocketbook.” FlashFlood an International Flash-Fiction Journal for National Flash Fiction Day (NFFD). June 25, reprint.

2016  “The Windows of All Saints’ Tudley.” Five Pure Slush Vol. 10. Ed. Matt Potter. Pure Slush Books (Magill, Australia).

2016 “Demigods Pray For Rain.” Best Of Boston Literary Magazine Volume One. Boston: Big Table Publishing.

2015 “Corpse Dress.” Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction. December Micro Issue. December 31.

2015 “Demigods Pray For Rain.” Boston Literary Magazine. Fall. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

2015 “A Conspiracy of Women.” Southern Women’s Review. Volume 8, Issue 8. March 19.

2015 “A Mermaid’s Purse Is Also Called A Devil’s Pocketbook.” Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal. Issue 6. January 7.—Nominated for the Sundress Publications’ Best Of The Net 2015.

2014 “Tales From Serendipity: Miss Congeniality.” Narratively. August 18.

2013 “Brittle Sisters.” Thrice Fiction: Number 9. December 21.

2013 “Thieving Magpies.” Dew on the Kudzu. September 28.

 

Essay, Craft, and Criticism

2021 “Five from the Archive—Sex in Flash.” Smokelong Quarterly Flash in the Classroom Series. June 20.

2021 “Five from the Archive — Long Periods of Time in Flash.” SmokeLong Quarterly Flash in the Classroom Series. January 12.

2020 “Review: The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction.” SmokeLong Quarterly Review Series. September 7.

2018 A Collage Review of Christopher Allen’s Other Household Toxins in Author Allen’s Own Words. Bending Genres. February 6.

2017 “How To Keep A Short Story Short.” Writing Helping Writers. Resident Writing Coach Program. August 27.

2017 “Theme: The Marrow of Your Story.” Writing Helping Writers. Resident Writing Coach Program. June 1.

2017 “ProWritingAid: A Useful Tool For Many Types Of Writing.” Writing Helping Writers. Resident Writing Coach Program. March 16.

2017 “Pacing and Momentum In Revision.” Writing Helping Writers. Resident Writing Coach Program. January 17.

2016 “Finding Your Way Into A Story.” Writing Helping Writers. Resident Writing Coach Program, Oct 18.

2016 “The Temporal Art of Flash.” Smokelong Quarterly Why Flash Fiction? Series. September 22.

2016  Contributing Editor in “Our Favorite Short Stories, Part 2, Author, Editor & Publisher Picks.” The Spark. The Alternating Current Press Blog + Journal. May 31.

2016 “Journey To Planet Write: Flash Time.” Words in Place. March 8.

2015 “Developing Character Through Movement and Gesture.” Flash Fiction Chronicles. July 3 & Bartleby Snopes Writing Blog. November 20.

2015 “Explain Once Upon A Time In 50 Words.” Symposium. Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal. Issue 6. February 2.

 

Interviews

2022 Submit to Flare, the anthology on chronic illness, told in flash narratives. Bath Flash Fiction Award site. October 14.

2021 The Patricia Q. Bidar Interview of April Bradley. Flashmonsters.  December 7.

2018 Mini-Interview with April Bradley. by Tommy Dean. Tommy Dean Writer Blog. April 23.

2017 ““Fierce fiction”: An Interview with Guest Reader April Bradley.” by Shasta Grant. SmokeLong Quarterly. November 20.

2016 “Looking at Bartleby Snopes A Talk with April Bradley & Nathaniel Tower.” Bath Flash Fiction Award. May 31.

2016 “Interview With Jayne Martin for Women Who Flash Their Lit.” Bartleby Snopes Writing Blog. March 18.

2016 “Degani, Fish, Reno, and Stohlman F-Bomb Women Who Flash Their Lit.” Bartleby Snopes Writing Blog. March 17.

2016 “An Interview with Gay Degani, Author of Rattle Of Want.” Bartleby Snopes Writing Blog. February 14.

2015 “Books To Read, Books To Give, Women Who Flash Their Lit.”  Bartleby Snopes Writing Blog. December 21.

2015 “Women Who Flash Their Lit Series.” Bartleby Snopes Writing Blog. November 17.

2015 “So My Mother, She Lives in the Clouds: Christopher D. DiCicco (Contributor Series Interview Series #8)” Bartleby Snopes Writing Blog, November 12.

2015 “It is a Joy to Fall Into a Powerfully Rendered Story.” The Review Review. June 30.

2015 “Terpischore’s Atrium with April Bradley.” The Booth. June 23 & Oct 24.

2014  Holt, Joseph. “Lit Zine Showcases Innovative Fiction and Fine Artwork Review of Thrice Fiction, Winter 2013.” The Review Review. April 6.

Photography

2021 March Hare. 100 Word Story. March 8.

2020 Carolina Beach. The Phare Literary Magazine, September 5

2020 Return from Ocracoke. The Phare Literary Magazine, January.

2020 Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse. The Phare Literary Magazine, January.

Workshops

2022 Chronic Illness & Flash. Sacred Heart University, Health Humanities, October 31.

2022 Writing About Illness in Flash. Part of the asynchronous workshop summer series, A SmokeLong Summer.

2020 Food Memory As Narrative and Character in Flash Creative Nonfiction, October15-17.

Participant, Narrative Medicine Spring Basic Workshop, Columbia University Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics, April 8-10, 2022.

Readings & Public Speaking

2022 F-Bomb NYC Digital Reading July 8.

2022 Southern Florida Poetry Journal Flash Reading March 1.

2022  The Great Flash Fiction Festival Throwdown, Bath, United Kingdom with Karen Jones and Electra Rhodes, Jude Higgins, David Swann, Sudha Balagopal, Hannah Storm, Sage Tyrtle, Fiona McKay, Gina Headden, and Christopher Allen. January 8.

2021   F-Bomb NYC. Digital Reading. June 11.

2020  Eckerd College Alumni Roundtable “Having It All and Other Lies: Roundtable on Life’s Expectations.” November 20.

2020  F-Bomb NYC. Digital Reading. with Meg Pokrass, Leonora Desar, Paul Beckman. April 9.

2017   Best Video Film & Cultural Center, Hamden, Connecticut with Paul Beckman, Tom Hazuka, Doug Mathewson, Alison McBain, and Jessica Treat. October 13.

2017   Sewanee Spoken Word, The Blue Chair, Sewanee, Tennessee with Kimberly Casey, Lynn Cimini-Hurt, Emari DiGiorgio, Judyth Hill, Jeanne Treadway, and Rebecca Wells. April 4.

2016   F-Bomb NYC. KGB Bar, New York, New York with Gessy Alvarez, Paul Beckman, John Anthony Berbrich, Craig Fishbane, John Gorman, and Julie Turley. December 17.

2016  2nd Annual Flash Fiction Festival.  The Mercury Cafe, Denver, Colorado with Christopher Bowen, David Atkinson, Mathias Svalina, Nancy Stohlman, Sally Reno, Kona Morris, Kathy Fish, Hillary Leftwich, and Nick Morris. July 19.

Audio/Podcasts

2015  Episode 33: Boston Literary Magazine and Big Table Publishing Collaboration. Rocky Mountain Revival Audio Art Journal. December 10.

2015 “A Mermaid’s Purse Is Also Called A Devil’s Pocketbook.” Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal. Issue 6. January 7. Soundcloud.

Residencies, Honors & Awards

2023 Recipient of the Margaret Rigg Social Justice Award, Eckerd College, February 25.

2022 Fractured Lit Reprint Prize, Shortlist for “What Will We Do With All This Grief.” Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, November 7, 2016.

Best of the Net 2023 Anthology nomination, CRAFT Literary. Courtney Harler, Editor in Chief, Suzanne Grove, Associate Editor, Jacqueline Doyle, Creative Nonfiction Editor, for “Like Water Flowing.” February 28, 2022.

Best of the Net 2023 Anthology nomination, South Florida Poetry Journal. Michael Mackin O’Mara, Managing Editor & Publisher, Francine Witte, Flash Fiction Editor, for “Sugar Spun.” Issue 24, February 2, 2022.

jmww 2013-2022 Anthology (Modern Times Press) January 20, 2023. 

Best of the Net 2022 Anthology nomination, FlashFlood an International Flash-Fiction Journal for National Flash Fiction Day (NFFD). Amy Barnes, Tim Craig, Anita Goveas, Sara Hills, Ingrid Jendrzejewski, Cassandra Parkin, Santino Prinzi, Diane Simmons, and Judi Walsh Editors, for “You’re Lookin’ at Country.” June 21, 2021.

The Best American Essays nomination, JMWW. Jen Michalski, Managing Editor, and Hannah Grieco, Senior Creative Nonfiction Editor, for “Social Time.” October 28, 2021.

The Pushcart Prize nomination, JMWW. Jen Michalski, Managing Editor, and Hannah Grieco, Senior Creative Nonfiction Editor, for “Social Time.” October 28, 2021.

The Best Microfiction 2022 Anthology nomination, New Flash Fiction Review. Meg Pokrass, Founding Editor, and Al Kratz, Managing Editor for “Lucky Lucky Tinsel Cake.” The Mega Meganthology. April 1, 2021.

Scout, Best Microfiction Anthology 2022.

The Best Microfiction 2021 Anthology nomination, Blink Ink. Doug Mathewson, Editor and Sally Reno, Managing Editor, for “Miniature Kitchen”  Issue 41 Home Cooking, 2020.

The Pushcart Prize nomination, Blink Ink. Doug Mathewson, Editor and Sally Reno, Managing Editor, for “Miniature Kitchen”  Issue 41 Home Cooking, 2020.

Long Listed, The SmokeLong Quarterly 15th-anniversary Award for Flash Fiction. June 4, 2018.

Guest Editor, SmokeLong Quarterly. Nov 20, 2017.

The Pushcart Prize nomination, CHEAP POP. Robert James Russell, Founding Editor-In-Chief and Hannah Gordon, Managing Editor for Little Wake, April 27, 2017.

The Best of Small Fictions nomination, CHEAP POP.  Robert James Russell, Founding Editor-In-Chief and Hannah Gordon, Managing Editor for Little Wake, April 27, 2017.

Residency, Rivendell Writers’ Colony, April 2017.

Resident Writing Coach, Writers Helping Writers, 2016-2017

The Pushcart Prize nomination, Boston Literary Magazine. Editor-In-Chief Robin Stratton, for “Demigods Pray For Rain.” Fall 2016.

Residency, Rivendell Writers’ Colony, January 2016.

Best of The Net nomination, Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal. Editor-In-Chief Shinjini Bhattacharjee, for “A Mermaid’s Purse Is Also Called A Devil’s Pocketbook.” January 7, 2015.

Judge, Southern Literary Festival 2015 Writing Contest, Short Fiction Category, University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, Georgia.

Residency, Vermont Studio Center, March 2015.

Professional and Service Organizations

• American Counseling Association (ACA)
• American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA)
• Association for Creativity in Counseling
• Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)
• Counselors for Social Justice (CSJ)
• Licensed Professional Counselors Association of North Carolina (LPCANC)
• Postpartum Support International (PSI)
• National Association for Poetry Therapy
• North Carolina Counseling Association (NCCA), 2023-2024 Chair, Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee
• Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities (SAIGE)
• Society for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities of North Carolina (SAIGE-NC)/AGLBICNC, 2023-2024 President-Elect
• World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)