Recent
FICTION
Receding Portrait, Alaska Quarterly Review
The Colony of Art, Narrative Northeast
My mother died one morning, Nanoism.net
Victory, Sci Phi Journal
DYI in the 1950s, 15 More Minutes of Fame in NYC, SoFloPoJo
Correction, 10 By 10
Free at Eighty, And We Lived Happily Ever After. National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2022, print
Etiology, The Continental Literary Magazine, print
A Pocket Universe, The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang, print
From the Alt-History Bible, Paragraphplanet.com
Such Language, Potato Soup
Interlude with You/ Love by Other Means/ Complaints, Flash Boulevard
Animation, Burnt Breakfast
Shelter, Fictive Dream
No Wafer, Blink-Ink, print
“Confrontations”, Brilliant Flash Fiction
“Tough Audience”, 101 Words
“Coda”, Rune Bear
“Face”, Juked
three pieces of microfiction, New World Writing
“Lessons”, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
HUMOR & SATIRE
Men’s Hand Motions When Dancing, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Due to Problem with Card, We Request Full Disclosure, Robot Butt
What It’s Like Being a Woman in a P. G. Wodehouse Novel, The Satirist
Splice Jobs, Inside Higher
Website Insecurity Questions, Cleaver Magazine
What Virginia Woolf Wrote and What She Meant, The Satirist
Updated Priority Vaccine List, Journal of the Plague Year
First Responder, The Daily Drunk
Teaching Modalities for Fall Semester, Inside Higher Ed
Eight Sure-Fire COVID Pick Up Lines, The American Bystander
New New York City Cyclist Regulations, Points in Case
Albert Camus, Creative Writing Instructor, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“What Virginia Woolf Wrote and What She Meant” , The Satirist
“Updated Priority Vaccine List” , Journal of the Plague Year
“First Responder”, The Daily Drunk
“Teaching Modalities for Fall Semester”, Inside Higher Ed
“Eight Sure-Fire COVID Pick Up Lines”, The American Bystander
“New New York City Cyclist Regulations”, Points in Case
“Sylvia Plath: Jingle All the Way”, The Satirist
“Albert Camus, Creative Writing Instructor”, McSweeney’s
POETRY
Pet Peeve, The Caterpillar (print)
Cephalopod Love, Lighten Up Online
Brush-Offs, Light Magazine Quarterly
Insomnia, Take 7, Precipitation, The Chamber Magazine
Oedipus (The Three Fates), Snakeskin
What They Don’t Teach at Hogwarts, Light Quarterly
Whale Music, Un Bordado de Voces (print)
Nohow, Blue Unicorn (print)
Social Justice Warrior in the Classroom, Porcupine Literary
Feminist Poem for Children Disguised as a Religious Credo (A Brief Theodicy), Light Quarterly
Art and Not Art, Able Muse (print)
All Aboard, First Things
ESSAYS AND REVIEWS
Framing the Frame: A Craft Essay on Metafiction, The Writer’s Chronicle
Credit Where Credit Is Due, Inside Higher Ed
Other Stories, Other Lives: Life among the Terranauts by Caitlin Horrocks, The Rumpus
Fiction in Review: Nathan Englander, The Yale Review, (print)
BOOK
Brevity
The classic handbook on writing flash fiction.
“If I had to choose just one book for my class in writing flash fiction, it would be this one. Practical, direct, wonderful examples, fun to read―if this book doesn’t energize your writing, nothing will.”
— Robert Shapard, coeditor of Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories
“Galef is an excellent writer, and the book throughout is a delight―he makes the reader want to immediately start writing.Best of all, each chapter provides examples of great flash fiction―from authors as different as Saki and Steve Martin―as well as ideas for readers to explore.”
― Publishers Weekly
NOW IN PAPERBACK
AWARDS
Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest, Honorable Mention
“Lewis Carroll’s Song at Newark Airport”
Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions
Juked Award for three Flash Fiction stories.
“Strategy“
“Restroom Love Story, Trailways Bus Depot, Newark, 1975”
“Political Fantasy, 2016”
Meringoff Prize in Fiction
Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers
“Therapy,” a short story published in Literary Imagination
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