fiction
“A Prayer for the Swamp Phantoms, 1865” forthcoming from Gulf Coast Online
“Divas in the Desert Sing Loudest” forthcoming from Cosmonaut’s Avenue
“Evie Heals” The Normal School Pop Culture Special Issue, 2020
“How to Take a Jesus Selfie at Bible World: Tips for My Atheist Daughter” Passages North issue 41, 2020
“Queens of the Universe” Pacifica Literary Review, 2019
“The Bell Game” Image, no. 97, 2018 (Distinguished Story: Best American Short Stories 2019; Honorable Mention: 2016 Glimmer Train July/August Very Short Fiction Contest; Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Prize, and the 2015 AWP Intro Journals Award)
“We Must Ford the River” Mississippi Review, 2018 (Finalist: 2018 Mississippi Review Fiction Contest)
“St. Joan and the Iguana” Sonora Review, 2018
“The Ascension” Passages North, Fall 2017
“Zelberg” SmokeLong Quarterly issue 58, December 2017
“St. Zelda’s” SmokeLong Quarterly issue 57, September 2017
“Our Lady of Lasers” SmokeLong Quarterly issue 56, June 2017
“Grams Pouts with Duck Lips” SmokeLong Quarterly issue 55, March 2017
“Ashby’s Brother” Monkeybicycle, Winter 2017
“DM Me If You #Repent” The Pinch Journal, Fall 2015
“Jenna Who Died in the Fire” The Pinch Journal, Fall 2015
“Frayed” Fiction Southeast, Summer 2015 (Finalist: 2015 Fiction Southeast Editors’ Prize)
“Nos Vemos” damselfly press Issue 16, Summer 2010
reviews
“Flash Fiction Day Top Ten: Allison Pinkerton’s Favorite Flashes about Kids” SmokeLong Quarterly, June 2017
“Somos Dezplasados: A Review of Vanessa Blakeslee’s Juventud” Ploughshares Blog, December 2015
“What We Don’t Say: A Review of Dave Reidy’s The Voiceover Artist” Necessary Fiction, November 2015
“Stories and Poetry of the Midwest, Full of Solid, Breathing People” The Review Review, Summer 2015
“Online Magazine is Full of Yearning” The Review Review, Summer 2015
Interviews
Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Allison Pinkerton SmokeLong Quarterly issue 57
Guest Editor Interview: SmokeLong Quarterly July 2017
Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Allison Pinkerton SmokeLong Quarterly issue 56
Smoke and Mirrors: An Interview with Allison Pinkerton SmokeLong Quarterly issue 55