Wilson Koewing

Wilson Koewing is a writer from South Carolina. His debut story collection "Jaded" is forthcoming from Main Street Rag/Mint Hill Books. 

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His writing has been featured in Pembroke Magazine, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Gargoyle Magazine, New World Writing, Maudlin House, Wigleaf, Hobart and many others.

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His story "Rock Wall"  from Maudlin House was longlisted for the 2021  Wigleaf Top 50.  His story "Child" from Flyover Country was nominated for a BOTN (2021) award. His essay "Woodstown" originally published in Pembroke Magazine was named a notable American essay of 2020 by Best American Essays. His short story "Point to Point" has been nominated for The Best American Mystery and Suspense Anthology by Reckon Review. 

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Contact: wilsonkoewing@gmail.com

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Praise for "Jaded." 

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Reading Jaded feels like you’re peeking through a keyhole, or reading someone else’s texts. A car crash of a flash collection that you cannot turn away from. Koewing’s prose is urgent, abrasive, and sexy; his characters naked, vulnerable, and devastating. It is a must read of contemporary literary fiction.
- Meagan Lucas, author of Songbirds and Stray Dogs

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By turns tender and brutal, these stories consume the world the way we all do now—in short and
brilliant bursts. Jaded takes us from the kitchens of the French Quarter to the heights of Denver’s
construction cranes. This is fiction steeped in place and Koewing is a willing tour guide. No stranger to a Sazerac, he’s too good at making you stay for just one more.
-Greg Tebbano, finalist for the First Pages Prize and the Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose

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​Flash Fiction ​

• Voicemail, Wigleaf 

• Amusement Park, The Sunlight Press 

• Milestones, Maudlin House 

• Loveland, Maudlin House

• The Deep End, Maudlin House 

• Rock Wall, Maudlin House

• Bomb Cyclone, Maudlin House

• Down Stinson Beach, Maudlin House 

• Island, Hobart

• Seven Shorts - (Truck Stop, On Oak Island, Steve, San Ramon, Jaco, Scott, Tortuga, New World Writing 

• Six Shorts - (Gray, The Deer, Texas Lake, Fantasy Boston, Ruined by the Flash and In Tamarindo), New World Writing 

• Cocktail Onion, New World Writing  

• Marrow, New World Writing 

• Beach, Ball, New World Writing

• Big Me, New World Writing 

• Bones, X-R-A-Y 

• Hap's, X-R-A-Y  

• Sour, X-R-A-Y 

• Rope, Bending Genres 

• Jaded, Ghost Parachute

• Hurricane, Trampset 

• Ghost Crabs, Trampset

• Ash, No Contact Magazine 

• Teeter-Totter, The Harpy Hybrid Review 

• Beach Winters, Rejection Letters 

• Left, Rejection Letters

• Snow, Literally Stories 

• Last Job, Pulp Modern Flash 

• Cherry Creek Reservoir, The Bureau Dispatch

• I-70, Reservoir Road Literary Review 

• Zephyr, Reservoir Road Literary Review 

• Rodeo, Reservoir Road Literary Review

• Elevator, Free Flash Fiction 

• Charleston, Arkansas, Sloane's Lake, Barzakh Magazine 

• ​Fall, Fiction Kitchen Berlin 

• Fantasy, Prague, ​Sky Island Journal

• Fragments: St. Croix, Schuylkill Valley Journal 

• In Bed, Schuylkill Valley Journal 

• Boxes, Schuylkill Valley Journal

• Mannequin, The Hunger Journal

• Groceries/Take Flight/Sprinkler, (Mac)ro(Mic)

• The Mountain Lion, ​Tiny Molecules

• Innocent Features, Potato Soup Journal

• ​Petrin Hill, The Loch Raven Review

• Ghosted, The Cabinet of Heed 

• Follower (The Instagram Dad), Ellipsis Zine 

• Stick Fingers, Door is a Jar Magazine

• Traveling Salesman, Early 80s, Bristol Noir 

• Enigma, 101 Words 

• Single-Cell Thunderstorm, Spelk 

• Moonlight, Sundial Magazine

• Oak, Six Sentences 

• Tennis Racket, Dead Fern Press

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Short Stories 

• Fresh Ice, Gargoyle Magazine

• Point to Point, Reckon Review

• Spyder, Maudlin House 

• The Fox Trap, Five on the Fifth

• Florida Joe, Menacing Hedge

• Overnight, Fiction on the Web 

• Son of the Beach, Kreaxxxion

• Stan the Sous Chef, ​The Fictional Cafe

• Vicarious, Expat Press 

• In The Darkness Before Dawn, Expat Press

• Rolling on the Bottom, Cowboy Jamboree 

• Painkiller, All Due Respect Magazine 

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Non-Fiction 

• The Starting or The End, Gastropoda

• South Beach, Scrawl Place  

• Hot Pot, Scrawl Place 

• The Elderly Woman Down the Street, Olney Magazine

• Sidewalks to Unleashed, Revolution John 

• Child, Flyover Country

• Woodstown, Pembroke Magazine

• Buoys, Bull: Men's Fiction

• Ninety-one in Dog Years, Memoirist

• Hospital, Rejection Letters 

• Canals, Rejection Letters 

• Corsair, The Daily Drunk

• Paul Koewing: Goose Killer, The Daily Drunk 

• Crystal, The Remington Review 

• The First Wife, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts 

• Last Kiss, JMWW

• Bus Trip from Paris to Lyon, Route 7 Review

• Stiller, (Mac)ro(Mic)

• Bridges, 433 Magazine 

• Ambergris Caye, Autofocus

• Once, In Cork, Autofocus 

• Carpet Burn, Ellipsis Zine 

• Florida Room, Cypress Press 

• Ripples, Slippage Lit

• Cajun Country, Sledgehammer Lit 

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Poetry

• Feather, The Big Windows Review 

• Gully, Oxmag

• Dimming Fireball meets Exploding Rocket, Eighteen Seventy

• Something Missing, Blue Lake Review 

• May 28, 2020, Versification 

• Red Head, Rat's Ass Review 

• A 90s kid stuck inside again, Dream Journal 

• 2021 Rolling in Cloudy but Warm in the East, The Daily Drunk

• Brunch/Colorado, The Mark Literary Review 

• Pea/Glasses, Anti-Heroin Chic 

• Suburbs/Coffin/Mission Impossible/Whiskey in Fall, Punk Noir

• Utah, Sledgehammer Lit  

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Interviews

• Fiction Kitchen Berlin, 12/5/2020

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Media

• Micro Podcast Reading (Elevator), 3/28/2021

• (Podcast)Textual Healing w/Mallory Smart, 4/9/2022

• (Podcast) That Horrorcast w/Mallory Smart, 11/17/2022

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• In the Soft Calm of the Evening, Bull: Men's Fiction

• A Cold and Perfect Nothing, Bull: Men's Fiction

• Sunday Morning Hangover, Bullshit Lit

• Clown Country, Bullshit Lit 

• Headstone, The Airgonaut