Dina L. Relles

writer. editor. curious + common.

Selected Short Prose & Poetry:

Postcard Collaboration with Sarah J. Sloat | Atlas and Alice | Jan. 9, 2023
texts i never sentFlypaper Lit | Jan. 1, 2023
On Going | Split Lip Magazine | 10th Anniversary Issue | Nov. 14, 2022
the yellow motelThe Night Heron Barks | Spring 2022 | June 2, 2022
Eulogy | Passages North | Issue 41 | Feb. 18, 2020 | nominated for Best Small Fictions 2021
campfire. & long distance. | Hobart | Dec. 30, 2019
As Close As I Came | 100 Word Story | Oct. 12, 2019
The Interstate | CHEAP POP | Oct. 3, 2019
The Diner | matchbook literary magazine | Aug. 26, 2019 | nominated for the Pushcart Prize | nominated for Best of the Net | longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50 2020
A Functional Murmur | Little Fiction | Big Truths | Aug. 7, 2019 | The 10 Most Read Posts of 2019
Corner Store | New South Journal | May 13, 2019
Desire Lines | Hobart | Jan. 18, 2019
In a Sunday Kitchen | Pidgeonholes | Oct. 11, 2018
Still | Wigleaf | Sept. 17, 2018
And Sometimes We Meet | matchbook literary magazine | Sept. 10, 2018 | nominated for the Pushcart Prize | selected for Best Microfiction 2019
For Michigan | The Coil Magazine | July 10, 2018
What’s Left | Unbroken Journal | July 1, 2018
Whiskey and Water | Synaesthesia Magazine | April 10, 2018
All I Have Left | Monkeybicycle | March 9, 2018 | featured on Mr. Bear’s Violet Hour Saloon podcast
A Makeshift Motel | Paper Darts | Vol. 7 (print)
Half-Life | CHEAP POP | Jan. 30, 2018 | nominated for the Pushcart Prize | nominated for Best of the Net | selected for Best Small Fictions 2019
New Years | Barrelhouse | Dec. 30, 2017
Where We Land | matchbook literary magazine | Sept. 25, 2017 | nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Common Ground | Rise Up Review | July 25, 2017 | shortlisted for Bettering American Poetry
Sneakers in Sand | River Teeth | Feb. 29, 2016
Compulsory Crossing | Split Lip Magazine’s Livershot Memoir Contest | Finalist | January 2016

Selected Essays:

Asymptotes | DIAGRAM | Oct. 31, 2019
Body of LongingWaxwing | Spring 2019 (collaboration with Kristine Langley Mahler)
Fall on Me | Atticus Review | March 1, 2018
Writing Memory | Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog | July 22, 2016
Attachments | Full Grown People | March 15, 2016
Home, Anywhere | Atticus Review | Dec. 22, 2015
End of the Road | Full Grown People | Feb. 12, 2015
It Can’t Wait | The Manifest-Station | June 3, 2015
A Shared Road | STIR Journal | July 1, 2015
Why We Write | Literary Mama | Dec. 29, 2014
Now I Mother From a Distance | Brain, Child Magazine | July 2, 2014
Bris Guilt: Claiming the Mother’s Role in a Ritual Circumcision | The Atlantic | Dec. 16, 2011

Interviews/Profiles/Reviews:

On Going, On Staying, On Cheese Cubes: An Interview of Dina L. Relles by Christina Berke | Split Lip Magazine | March 7, 2023
One Great Things About “Half-Life” | Meghan McClure | March 2018
Writers of the Week | Maudlin House | Feb. 9, 2018
Mini-Interview with Dina Relles | Tommy Dean | Jan. 30, 2018

Editing Experience:

Nonfiction Editor | Pidgeonholes | Dec. 2018—present
Asst. Prose Poetry Editor | Pithead Chapel | Jan. 2018—July 2020
TRUE Senior Blog Editor | Proximity Magazine | Aug. 2016—Apr. 2018
Blog Editor | Literary Mama | Feb. 2015—Aug. 2016

Other Resources:

List of Venues for Flash CNF | Micro Prose | Prose Poetry

Complete list of publications:

100 Word Story

The Atlantic

Atlas and Alice

Atticus Review

Barrelhouse (online)

Brain, Child Magazine

Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog

CHEAP POP

The Coil Magazine

DIAGRAM

Flypaper Lit

Full Grown People

The Huffington Post

Hobart

Kveller

Literary Mama

Little Fiction | Big Truths

Mamalode

The Manifest-Station

matchbook literary magazine

Monkeybicycle

New South Journal

The Night Heron Barks

Paper Darts

Passages North

Pidgeonholes

Rise Up Review

River Teeth

Scary Mommy

Split Lip Magazine

STIR Journal

Synaesthesia Magazine

Unbroken Journal

The Washington Post

Waxwing

Wigleaf

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