From the earliest sentences of Tiny Vessels it's clear we are in the hands of an anointed master, a visionary stylist, a practitioner of ancient word magics and timeless mythologies, wielding the word as prayer and testimony, a passionate interrogation of the human condition, each faceted compaction of narrative essentialism touching the reader with awe and wonderment.
—Arthur Flowers, author of De Mojo Blues
JR Fenn’s vessels are Fabergé eggs, mermaid’s purses, and light-filled hulls. Each offers a window into a world both strange and familiar. Together they become an airship that moves from the heartbreakingly intimate to the startling and expansive…
—Sonja Livingston, author of Ghostbread
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2026. “Remnant.” Witness (forthcoming).
2026. “Under the Catclaw Bush.” Hippocampus.
2025. “Cassandra.” Split Lip Magazine. Nominated for Best Small Fictions.
2025. "The Last Cinematographer in Space." Second Place, Flash 405: Normal. Exposition Review.
2025. “Catch and Release.” Awarded the Robert Colley Prize for Fiction. Stone Canoe 19.
2025. “Memory Box.” First Place, 59th Annual Millennium Award for Flash Fiction. Also appears in The Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 17. Nominated for Best Small Fictions.
2025. "Keep the Crowd Moving." The Fourth River: Tributaries.
2025. “The Happy Son.” Gigantic Sequins 16 & First Place, Sunspot Literary Solar Flare Award.
2025. “Sockeye.” Complete Sentence. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
2024. “The Cherry Tree.” Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthology Volume 9.
2024. “The Matchbox.” 100 Word Story.
2024. “Green Walls Lit in the Night.” Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature - Cities.
2017. “Athena Dreams of a Hollow Body.” Boston Review: Global Dystopias.
2014. “Reasons for the Flood.” DIAGRAM.
2014. “Fumigation Day.” SmokeLong Quarterly.
2014. “Where We Went and What We Did There.” Winner of the Gulf Coast Prize in Nonfiction.
With work also appearing or forthcoming in The Oxford Flash Fiction Award Anthology, Hippocampus, Wild Greens, The Linden Review, In Short, Painted Pebble Lit Mag, Centaur, Eunoia Review, PANK, Camroc Press Review, Versal Literary & Arts Journal, Neon, Short Reads, Flash Fiction Magazine, Boston Review, Stone Canoe, Strange Hymnal, & more…