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Noley Reid

Published Stories & Essays
Select Published &, at Times, Forthcoming

Stories Online: 
  • Peatsmoke Journal (2021) - "Movement & Bones"
  • Pithead Chapel (2021) - "The Hardest Thing"
  • Split Lip Magazine (2020) - "Coming Back"
  • CRAFT Literary Journal (2020) - "Origami Dogs"
  • Manque (2020) - "Lost Boys"
  • JMWW Journal (2020) - "Seed"
  • Jam & Sand (2020) - "This Empty Box"
  • Literary Hub (2017) - first chapter excerpt of Pretend We Are Lovely
  • Dos Passos Review (2012) - "The Truest Truth There Ever Was"
  • The Journal, Santa Fe Writers Project (2010) - "Someone Like Me"
  • storySouth (2010) -  "Once It's Gone"
  • Prime Number Magazine (2010) - "Ice Cream"
  • Sweet:  A Literary Confection (2010) - "Fool"

Essays Online: 
  • The Lily (2018) - "I Joined Match.com After Losing 151 Pounds. The Men I met Made Me Feel Special--and Terrible"
  • The Rumpus (2018) - "Thick and Thin"
  • Tin House (2017) - "13 Steps to Get You Thin, Thin, Thin"
  • Publishers Weekly, Tip Sheet (2017) - "4 Great Books That Make You Hungry and What to Pair With Them" 

​Stories in Print Journals:
2022:  Moon City Review 
2021:  Arts & Letters - Confrontation - River Styx  
2020:  The McNeese Review 
2015:  Another Chicago Magazine
2012:  Pisgah Review - Yemassee - ROAR
2011:  Many Mountains Moving
2008:  Broken Bridge Review - Pisgah Review
2007:  Copper Nickel - The Coe Review
2006:  Grain Magazine
2003:  The Southern Review - Karamu - Notre Dame Review - Quarterly West
2002:  Meridian - Crab Orchard Review - Confrontation
2001:  turnrow - Indiana Review - Other Voices - Clackamas Literary Review - American Literary Review - Rain Crow - Crab Orchard Review - Black Warrior Review - Yemassee - Willow Springs - Washington Square
2000:  The Chattahoochee Review - GSU Review - New York Stories

Stories in Anthologies: 
  • Spoon Knife 5: Liminal (Autonomous Press, 2021)
  • New Stories from the Midwest 2020 (New American Press, 2020)
  • New Stories from the Midwest 2015 (New American Press, 2016)
  • Keeping Track:  Fiction of Lists (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2012)
  • Altered States (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2011)
  • Confessions:  Fact or Fiction? (Chrysalis Editorial, 2010)
  • Coming Home, (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2010)
  • A la Carte:  Short Stories That Stir the Foodie in All of Us (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2010)
  • XX Eccentric:  Stories About the Eccentricities of Women (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2009)
  • Stolen Stories (Forest Publications, 2008)
  • Big Water (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2008)
  • Asylum 1928 (Fish Publishing, 2001)
  • Blue Cathedral (Red Hen Press, 2000)

Noley Reid  |  Novelist & Short Storyist

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