Jeff Fleischer

The new issue of Chaffin Journal is out. It’s only in print at the moment, but it includes “Focal Point.” An excerpt: A deep breath. Feel the air enter the lungs, let it circulate, return it where it came. Think about it every time, focus on it. What it means to live. Winfield had acquired […]

Both of my last two books received positive reviews from Kirkus, and now those issues are online. Here’s the one for Votes of Confidence, and here’s the one for Rockin’ the Boat. I’ve posted them online before, but it’s cool to see them in a full issue.

More news on the fiction front, as “The Tomb” is published in the new issue of Windmill by Hofstra University. I got the print copy a bit ago, but now it’s online too. An excerpt: We first noticed them in the spring. Rhonda and I had moved into the third-floor walk-up in late February. Her […]

Been a couple months since the last round of stories were published, but the streak breaks now, as the new edition of THAT Literary Review from Auburn University came out today, including my microfiction story “Luck.” An excerpt: John was never quite sure if he believed in lucky pennies, or if picking them up was […]

While it didn’t win the big prize, my short story “Redundancy” was named a semifinalist for the 2019 Vonnegut Prize, given out by North American Review, based out of the University of Northern Iowa.

For the fifth year in a row, I’m a featured author at the Anderson’s Bookstore annual Children’s Literature Breakfast in the western suburbs this weekend. With Votes of Confidence awaiting a new edition, I will be signing Rockin’ the Boat and meeting with librarians and teachers. If you’re going, stop by and say hi.

My short story “The Tin Platoon” appears in the new edition of Curating Alexandria, which focuses on fairy tales.  Even cooler, they asked me to write the introduction to the collection. This book, titled Once Upon a Time in Alexandria, is the third produced in the series, the second to feature me, and available as […]