Jess E. Jelsma
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Publications


Fiction

"To the Fairest One" The McNeese Review

"A Study in Gentle Persuasion" The Southern Review ​(​Audio)

"A Cold War" The Arkansas International

"No Sweeter Fat" The McNeese Review's Boudin

"A Last-Minute Addendum" CRAFT

"Stray" Flyway

"Big Bob, Little River" The Chicago Tribune's Printer

"Vertebrae" The Normal School

"The Sweeper" ​Indiana Review

​"Providence Road"​ ​Bayou Magazine 

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Critical

"On the Power of Radical Transparency" The Cincinnati Review (forthcoming)

​"Decay and Symbolic Impotence in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye" The Explicator ​​
Creative Nonfiction
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​"Beautyrest"
 Ligeia

"The Great Forgetting" Quarterly West 

​"Take Your Daughter to Work Day" ​Pembroke Magazine

"Cast Me Back Out to Sea" Entropy 

"The Trouble With Angels: Taming a Halo of Unruly Hair" Catapult 

"Remember Us Now, Wandering" Post Road 

"Frigid" The Rumpus 

​It Happened To Me: "I Got Divorced 8 Months After My Fairy Tale Wedding" xoJane  ​



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​Podcast/Audio Memoir

"The Long Night" The Normal School ​

​"Between the Wish and the Thing" Penny Zine

​Interviewed/Featured In


Podcasts
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​Episode 4, Just the Gist Please Podcast, Katharine Griffith

"It's Not Me, It's You," The Heart Podcast, Abigail Bereola
Written Coverage

​"Literary Spotlight,"
 The Writer Magazine, Melissa Hart ​​

Honors and Awards


Prizes and Nominations

​Best of the Net Nomination in 2019 for "No Sweeter Fat"

Pushcart Nomination in 2018 for "A Last-Minute Addendum"

Best of the Net Nomination in 2018 for "Stray"

Finalist for the 2018 Colorado Review Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction for "A Study in Gentle Persuasion"

Finalist for 2018 SmokeLong Quarterly's 15th-Anniversary Flash Fiction Competition for "Stray"

Winner of the 2016 University of Alabama's Don Hendrie Jr. Memorial Fiction Prize for "Big Bob, Little River

Finalist for the 2014 Passages North Neutrino Short-Short Prize

​Pushcart Prize Nomination in 2013 for "The Sweeper"
​Support

​Artist in Residence for the Collaborative Retreat at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek in August 2019

Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction at the 2018 Sewanee Writers' Conference 
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