It has been a whirlwind year for AVL Writers. Our gang have been popping up like a literary virus in print, podcasts, and various websites across the Internet.

For those who are new to the group or discovering us for the first time, what we do is quite simple. We encourage members to take on a simple, repeatable formula for success:

  1. Write,
  2. Finish what you write, and
  3. Share what you write with the world.

As you can see from the list of publications below, our dedicated writers have taken this rubric to heart and the results are manifest.

Chris Maiorana

  • “Dead Pixels” (Short Story, Dark Harbor)
  • “Death Shtick” (Short Story, Horror Sleaze Trash)
  • “Reptile” (Short Story, Freedom Fiction Journal)

F. G. Keel

  • Trimble Hollow (Novel, Self-Published)
  • “Odd Man Out” (Short Story, County Lines, A Literary Journal)
  • “Mr. Fluffernutter and the Hooker” (Flash Fiction, The Bookends Review, Summer 2026)

Marco Visciolaccio

  • “Ageplay Party, First Saturday of October, Laconia, NH — Be There” (Microfiction, 101 Words)
  • “The Last Marco Polo” (Microfiction, 6S)
  • “Yalaha, Heilongjiang” (Microfiction, Eunoia Press)
  • “You Are My Sunshine by Gene Autry” (Microfiction, Major 7th Magazine)
  • “Hundred-Dollar Grilled Cheese” (Short Story, Horror, Sleaze, Trash)
  • “Me & You & Donnie Too” (Microfiction, Strip Mall Magazine, Spring 2026)
  • “Reinterring the Tomb of Velcha” (Microfiction, Strip Mall Magazine, Spring 2026)
  • “Temp-to-Perm in Karnak, IL” (Microfiction, Rat Bag Lit, Spring 2026)
  • “The Elephant Man in the Room” (Microfiction, Frazzled Lit, Spring 2026)
  • “Your Third Round Job Interview with a Manatee” (Flash Fiction, Johnny America, Spring 2026)
  • “The Bay Ridge Homunculus” (Flash Fiction, Once Upon a Crocodile, Summer 2026)
  • French Broads Lit (Flash Fiction Editor, Spring 2026)

Sarah Oechsle

  • “The White Bear” (Short Story, Black Cat Weekly)
  • “Dollhouse” (Short Story, After Happy Hour)
  • “The Land” (Short Story, Thirteen Podcast)
  • “The Front Range” (Short Story, Weird Lit)
  • “Camp Fever” (Short Story, Nat1 Publishing, Upcoming Summer 2026)
  • French Broads Lit (Managing Editor, Spring 2026)

Barry Fields

  • “Caretaking” (Short Story, The Opiate)
  • “Eric & Lyra: A Relationship in Five Acts” (Short Story, The Rumen)
  • “The Money” (Short Story, After Dinner Conversation)
  • “Swimmer” (Short Story, Tulip Tree Review)
  • “Gretel’s Apples” (Short Story, Tales from the Crosstimbers)
  • “Avalanche” (Short Story, Killer Nashville Magazine)
  • “The Miracle Earth of Chimayó” (James Hurst Short Fiction Prize at North Carolina State Universiry, Runner-Up)
  • “Heart Failures” (Short Story, Epistemic Literary, Spring 2026)
  • “One Hand Clapping” (Short Story, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, Spring 2026)
  • “Olfaction” (Short Story, Penstricken, Spring 2026)
  • “The Testament of Tiresias” (Short Story, Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder, Spring 2026)
  • French Broads Lit (Short Fiction Editor, Spring 2026)

Charley Paxos

Rebecca Buchanan

Jeremy Giles

  • “Dog-Shaped Molcajete” (Poetry, Stone of Madness Press)
  • “Return to My Asheville” (Poetry, Literary Heist)
  • “One Week Relationship” (Poetry, Eunoia Review)
  • “Iceberg” (Poetry, Heimat Review, Winter 2025)
  • “A Boy Named Gaia” (Poetry, Umbrella Factory Magazine)
  • “Today is the Day” (Short Story, After Dinner Conversation, Winter 2025)
  • French Broads Lit (Poetry Editor, Spring 2026)
  • Strip Mall Magazine, Issue 11 (Social Media Manager, Poetry and Fiction Editor, Spring 2026)

James Giovanni Novello

  • French Broads Lit (Managing Editor, Spring 2026)

Genevieve Barber

  • “What Wants to be Born: Floods, Fungi, and Showing Up for Each Other” (Essay, French Broads Lit, Spring 2026)