Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam

  • Publishers Weekly + Audio Reprint!

    Publishers Weekly + Audio Reprint!

    Two pieces of awesome news this week. First, my surrealist story “Scars” has been performed for the audio podcast Manawaker Studio. Listen to it for free here. And a first for me: my story “He Came From a Place of Openness and Truth” got a mention in Publishers Weekly‘s review of Wilde Stories 2016. Check…

  • “Sisters” in Grendelsong

    “Sisters” in Grendelsong

    I’ve always been interested in the little-explored pieces of the original Little Mermaid story: the lives of the sisters, the weird concept of souls, the sea witch’s back story. I wrote a story about all these things. Today it’s been reprinted online in Grendelsong: https://grendel-song.com/2016/05/07/sisters-bonnie-jo-stufflebeam/ “Sisters” originally appeared in SCHEHEREZADE BEQUEST.

  • “The Split” in Masters Review

    “The Split” in Masters Review

    In 2011 I moved to Eugene, Oregon, where I was alternately and sometimes simultaneously very happy and very sad. In Oregon I learned independence and grew into myself as a writer and as a person, but I missed my family in Texas terribly. In 2012 I wrote a story and used my experiences. “The Split”…

  • “The Centaur’s Daughter”

    “The Centaur’s Daughter”

    “The Centaur’s Daughter” (published in A Capella Zoo, 2015) was reviewed at New Pages: Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam’s “The Centaur’s Daughter” achieves a more nuanced approach to a queer text. First and foremost a coming of age narrative, Ruby’s queerness is one part of her character. Ruby is half centaur and queer, and Stufflebeam uses language reminiscent…

  • Awards Eligibility 2015

    First, this post is late. I meant to write it sooner–I usually love reflecting back over the past year–but a death in my family slowed my writing to a terrible crawl. I’ve been avoiding much that I meant to do. But an email from Sunil Patel, an editor of Mothership Zeta, with whom I published…