Nadia Born

Nadia Born writes about girls who are birds, mothers who are ghosts, and other mysteries. She won LitMag’s Anton Chekhov Award for Flash Fiction and New Letters’ Editor’s Choice Award. Her stories are featured in The Cincinnati Review, Water~Stone Review, New Orleans Review, Mississippi Review and elsewhere. She also has speculative work forthcoming in Flash Fiction Online.

Writing

Awards

• Winner, 2023 Anton Chekhov Award for Flash Fiction (judged by staff)

"The Prohibition" – LitMag (print, 2024)

• Winner, 2022 Editor’s Choice Award (judged by staff)

“Marriage: A Crossword” – New Letters (print, 2023)

• Finalist, 2023 Micro Essay Contest (judged by Lisa Nikolidakis)

“i become a mind reader” – New Orleans Review (online, 2024)

• Nominations: Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction and Best of the Net

Publications

• “The Ice Cutter’s Daughter and Her Looking Glass” – Flash Fiction Online (“Winter Folklore” issue, online, 2025) → forthcoming!

• “The Lunar Phases According to My Flat-Earther Lover” – Arkansas International (print, 2024)

• “Sugar Coating” – Mississippi Review (print, 2024)

• “Neither, Both” – The Normal School (online, 2023)

• “To All the Souls Who Can't Yet Read” – The Cincinnati Review (“miCRo” series, online, 2023)

• “Inkling” – MQR Mixtape (“Pleasure” issue, online, 2023)

• “Seeds Grow in the Dark” – Jellyfish Review (online, 2023)

• “Mother Tongue” – Hayden’s Ferry Review (“Tiny Architectures” issue, online, 2022)

*Finalist for Best of the Net 2024

*Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2023

*Nominated for Best Microfiction 2023

• “The Swimming Lesson” – Water~Stone Review (print, 2022)

• “Oranges” – Gulf Coast (online, 2021)

• “Checking for Ticks” – SmokeLong Quarterly (online, 2021)

*Nominated for Best Microfiction 2022

• “To the Coast” – minnesota review (print, 2020)

*Nominated for the Pushcart Prize

Contact

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