Keely Gardiner – Scheduler
Keely Gardiner is a fiction writer. She lives in Stroud, a sleepy Cotswolds town in the UK, with her husband. Her love of writing became real when she received a bursary to attend an Arvon Foundation retreat. She is the proud owner of a BA and an MA from the University of Gloucestershire. She has been awarded prizes. She was shortlisted for Mslexia’s 2013 Memoir Competition and the 19th Bath Flash Fiction Award in 2021. In 2022, she won Retreat West’s Monthly Micro contest.
Before becoming an editor at Flash Fiction Magazine, Keely was an editor at 101Words. She has attended many workshops and hosted a few too. Alongside editing, she teaches children creative writing. Her stories appear under her pen/maiden name, O’Shaughnessy, in Flash Fiction Magazine, in Ellipsis Zine, Reflex Fiction, Emerge Literary Journal, and in (mac)ro(mic) to name a few. She is a Pushcart and Best Small Fictions nominee and her fiction has been selected for the Wigleaf Top 50. Her debut collection, Baby is a Thing Best Whispered, is published by Alien Buddha Press. She champions flash because it requires clarity, constant forward momentum, and exact word choice. When not writing or editing, she spends time discussing the joys of David Bowie with her cats. You can visit her author website, keelyoshaughnessy.com, to discover more.
Keely is on X @KeelyO_writer.
Genevieve Allen – Senior Reader
Genevieve Allen is from Cornwall in the UK. She enjoys both contemporary and historical literature, and the reimagining of myth and folk stories as well as pieces with an LGBTQ+ focus. She studied creative writing at the University of Gloucestershire and has had her work published in the anthology Smoke, as well as adapted for the stage at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. She is particularly interested in playwriting and likes pieces that are relevant and resonate with audiences. Her fiction work has most recently appeared in Toasted Cheese Literary Journal and Flashback Fiction. She firmly believes a good book is best enjoyed with a cup of tea, and as such, her mug collection is getting rapidly out of control.
Genevieve is on X @GenAllen52.
Cecilia Kennedy – Proofreader/Editor
Cecilia Kennedy is an Ohio Buckeye transplanted in the Greater Seattle area. She’s a copywriter, writer, and editor, who once taught English and Spanish courses in Ohio for twenty years. She earned a doctorate in Spanish literature from The Ohio State University, and in 2016, she moved to Washington state with her husband, teenage son, and a very demanding cat. Since 2017, she has been writing and publishing short stories in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies online and in print. Her stories have appeared in Tiny Molecules, Rejection Letters, Maudlin House, Coffin Bell, Open Minds Quarterly, Headway Quarterly, Flash Fiction Magazine, Kandisha Press, Ghost Orchid Press, and more. The Places We Haunt (Potter’s Grove Publishing) is her first short story collection, which was released in 2020. Additionally, she contributes adult beverages columns for The Daily Drunk literary magazine, serves as a concept editor for Running Wild Press, and writes a humor blog (Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks). Her author website is ckennedyhola.wixsite.com.
Cecilia is on X @ckennedyhola.
Shanna Yetman – Editor
Shanna Yetman is an environmental writer and Latina living in Chicago. She enjoys character-driven fiction with a social-justice edge. Her writing has centered on motherhood, and now, the climate crisis and how we can reimagine our planet’s future. Shanna has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Maryland and a BA in English Literature from Wellesley College. She’s an alumna of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference and has taught at UIC’s Summer Institute on Sustainability and Energy (SISE). Her fiction has appeared in 365tomorrows, DreamForge Anvil, Sky Island Journal, Cheap Pop, MoonPark Review, and the Daily Drunk. She’s placed or won contests with WOW (Women on Writing), Reflex Fiction, and New Millennium Writings. When she’s not writing, she serves on her local school board and tortures her children with long walks through Cook County’s local forest preserves. Feel free to visit her website writershannayetman.weebly.com.
Shanna is on X @YetmanShanna.
Kathleen Danielson – Editor
Kathleen Danielson is a fantasy and historical fiction writer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kathleen has a BA in English from Carleton College, where she minored in creative writing. In addition to Flash Fiction Magazine, her work appears or is forthcoming in the Magazine of History and Fiction, Black Moon Magazine, and All Worlds Wayfarer, and she was a semifinalist for the 2020 University of New Orleans Press Publishing Lab Prize. She is also part of the 2024 WriteHive Mentorship Program, for which she is working on a historical fantasy manuscript. When she’s not reading, editing, writing, or trying to stop her cat from walking on her computer keyboard, she is usually bouncing between too many sewing, knitting, embroidery, baking, and painting projects. See what she’s currently writing at kathleendanielson.com.
Kathleen is on X: @kathleen_writes.
Charline Poirier – Editor
Charline is a London-based writer. She obtained a PhD in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and had an international career in technology design.
She has been on the panel of reviewers for The Blue Nib, and is an associate editor for Brilliant Flash Fiction.
Her stories have appeared in Change Seven, Flash Fiction Magazine, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Scarlet Leaf Review, Freedom Fiction, and Commuter Lit. She has penned literary stories, dipped into sci-fi, and spun a few mystery tales. Her flash “Riding the Waves” was nominated for a Pushcart. She is currently working on a novel.
Charline is on X @Charline_Oh.
Mathew Channer – Editor
Mathew Channer is a writer, editor, and journalist currently based in Ontario, Canada, who recently completed his BA with majors in creative writing and journalism. He is the author of Last Train North, his debut dystopian novella, and his fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Deep Wild Journal, Climbing Magazine, Latitudes & Attitudes, and the 2023 anthology It Begins with Us. When he is not working on an endless series of speculative fiction stories, he is usually halfway up the side of a mountain, looking for rocks to climb. His best friend is an Alaskan Malamute named Nymeria who curls up under his desk while he writes. Find him at mathewchanner.com or on socials, Instagram/Twitter: @mathewchanner.
Joy Saler Drees – Editor
Joy Saler Drees is an avid reader and fiction writer, residing in San Diego, California, with her family, cat, and chickens. She fancies reading many genres, particularly literary and speculative fiction with voicey narratives and fresh perspectives. Her most recent works have appeared in Year in Ink Anthology, River & South, Emerge, Litbreak, and Rain Taxi. Joy has an MFA in Writing from Pacific University and a BA in English from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She’s a reader for New American Fiction Prize every year, and, in the past, enjoyed being a reader for Electric Lit and Autumn House Press. Aside from reading and writing, Joy spends her time marveling how fast her three children grow, bicycling around town, and working as an ABA therapist focusing on natural and individualistic approaches.
Laura Besley – Editor
Laura Besley (she/her) enjoys exploring big topics in small spaces. She has published four collections of flash & micro, most recently: Sum of her PARTS (V. Press, 2025). She is currently a Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Leicester, an editor with Flash Fiction Magazine and JMWW, and runs The NIFTY Book Club. Having lived in the Netherlands, Germany and Hong Kong, she now lives in land-locked central England and misses the sea.
Read more of her writing on her website or connect on X @laurabesley or Bluesky @laurabesley.bsky.social
Emily Hoover – Editor
Emily Hoover is the author of the novella in stories, Snitch (Wordrunner eChapbooks, 2021), the poetry chapbook, My Mother as a Serrano Pepper (Zeitgeist Press, 2023), and the forthcoming micro-chapbook of flash fiction, Sinners to the Back of the House: Stories About Women Who Leave (Bull City Press, 2025). Her poetry, fiction, and reviews have been published by Sundress Publications, The Citron Review, FIVE:2:ONE, BULL, Necessary Fiction, The Los Angeles Review, Ploughshares blog, The Rupture, and others. Her creative works have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction anthologies as well as selected as an honorable mention for Madville’s 2019 Runaway Stories Anthology and Cleaver Magazine’s 2022 flash contest. She lives in Las Vegas and is a Senior Lecturer of English and Creative Writing Coordinator at Nevada State University.
Find her on X and Instagram as @em1lywho.
Caterina Alvarez – Editor
Caterina Alvarez is a lover of all forms of fiction. She is obsessed with exploring forms of narration to understand their impact on a story after diving deep into the work of Wayne Booth over the last two years. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review, The Atticus Review, Tiny Molecules, Flash Boulevard, Flash Fiction Magazine, and other online journals. Her piece “Short Division” made the Wig Leaf Top 50 in 2023. She’s currently working on a novel while serving as an associate editor for Thirty West Publishing House and a priority editor for Flash Fiction Magazine. She received her MA in Communications from the Annenberg School at USC in 2000 and is a longtime member of The Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She lives in Denver, CO with her husband and children.
Find her and her work on X @Caterina445 and Instagram @CaterinaAF.
Aishwarya Mishra – Editor
Aishwarya is a writer and editor based in Jharkhand, India. She writes speculative flash fiction, short fiction, and poetry that pushes the limits of language and identity. Her flash fiction has appeared in XRAY, JMWW, and New Millennium Writings, and has been selected for the Best Small Fictions 2021 anthology. She has also been a recipient of Washington Square Review’s New Voices Award (fiction) in 2024.
Having graduated from the Seagull School of Publishing in 2024, she is excited about using her love of language and literature to help other writers find the pulse of their stories. Apart from writing, she loves dancing and hopes that one day her bones would forget the difference between the two forms of movement.
You can find her on X as @antifragile_nut.
Andrew Cochrane – Editor
Andy lives with his wife and two daughters on the windy south coast of England, where the local sport is watching the neighbors’ recycling bins getting side-swiped down the street by the Atlantic breeze. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Southampton, and received the Maureen Taylor bursary for excellence in writing and for his work in the community. His creative and critical work has been published at The Interpreter’s House, The Fiction Desk, Litro, The First Line, and Every Day Fiction, among others.
In the past, he has worked in health care and fostering, both of which often inform his writing. He has also been the assistant facilitator for the Mayflower Young Writers, an Arts Council funded workshop for children between the ages of 11 and 18.
He enjoys reading literary and mainstream fiction, but his preference is always for strong, immersive writing whatever the genre, especially when driven by voice or character.
Shannon Huffman – Owner and Man Behind the Curtain
I help authors and wear stupid hats.
