Shoshana Surek’s short fiction, creative nonfiction, essays and poetry appear or are forthcoming in Chicago Quarterly Review, Blue Mesa Review, Burningword Literary Review, Carve Magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Malahat Review, Vestal Review, 3 Elements Review, University Press, Cease, Cows, and f(r)iction Magazine. Her story, “Masking Tape Over My Fortunate One,” was nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize and she is a 2019 Finalist in december Magazine's Curt Johnson's Prose Awards. She was a first reader for Vestal Review and Inverted Syntax. She is passionate about writers and poets who use language to expand and enhance the reader’s world.
As a first-generation American and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, she enjoys reading voices expressing the connections between past and present when everything -and so little- has changed. Shoshana studied Literature in England and earned both her MA and MFA Creative Writing in Poetry and Fiction in Denver. She was a two-time finalist in HBO Comedy Arts Open and a finalist in the Miller Heavyweight Comedy Championships. She and her husband live in the foothills of Colorado with three children and a slew of animals, all of whom are poised to take over the house (and the world).
Follow her on Twitter at @shoshana_surek. Read more of her work below.
How to contact me: leave various cryptic clues in the text of your next published book, story, or poem. Spread the message over many years and reprints. Alternately, you could email. Your choice.
Published Work
"2019 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Fiction - Finalist"
August 14, 2019
I am honored to be a finalist and be listed in the next issue of December magazine! Judged by Rita Mae Brown.
"Masking Tape Over My Fortunate One" (Nominated for a 2017 Pushcart Prize)
May 31, 2017
Vestal Review, 2017
"Branching from the Willow" (Awarded Story of the Week)
February 25, 2017
Vestal Review - Awarded "Story of the Week"
