Fiction
Craft First Chapters Contest, Honorable Mention – From the novel in progress, Sustainability, December 2023
https://www.craftliterary.com/craft-first-chapters-contest-2023/
“The Cleanse,” TriQuarterly, July 2023
https://www.triquarterly.org/issues/cleanse
“Resurrection” Surreal South anthology
https://www.press53.com/anthologies/surreal-south-1
“Pissing in Perpetuity” Speed Chronicles, anthology from Akashic Books
“Sustainability” Tin House, Featured New Voice in Fiction.
“Indigenous” The Greensboro Review
“Sirenia” Poem, Memoir, Story
“Season” River Styx. Second Prize in River Styx Schlafly Microfiction Contest
“Donkey Hammer” Gulf Coast. University of Houston
Nonfiction
The Common: Ask a Local
https://www.thecommononline.org/ask-a-local-rose-bunch-fayetteville-ar/
“Tim & Diane” Arkansas Times
“Vacation Rental By Owner” – Tropmag.com
“Norman Mailer is Coming to Dinner” New Letters Winner of the Dorothy C. Cappon Essay Contest in Nonfiction Competition
“Ghosts” Fugue, University of Idaho
The Atlantic, Honorable Mention College Nonfiction Contest
Interviews
The Common, Ask a Local: Rose Bunch
https://www.thecommononline.org/ask-a-local-rose-bunch-fayetteville-ar/
“In high school we used to drive up to The Cross on that mountain, a glowing blue monument atop a rock base with a small parking area that overlooks the city square and university. They set nails in the concrete around the base to discourage the drunks from scaling it, and we parked there, drank our whiskey and stared at the lights of the town smoking cheap cigarettes and wallowing in our teenage angst. Now the nails are gone, but the cross is still there emitting an eerily blue, but comforting glow. The kids continue to drink crap beer and pee in the bushes below the symbol of Christ’s suffering, an occasional cop cruising by shining a spotlight. When you sit there in a parked car now, as many restless adults still do, you see the faces of others lit by the soft, blue light of the cross, staring out at the lights of our town.”
Superstition Review Interview:
https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue7/Interviews/rosebunch
“I was always terrified of the ghost from my childhood, up until I told him to go fuck himself. In films people react with abject terror to the paranormal, screaming hysterically, but I never did. To be clear, I am not super coolheaded or anything. When I have stepped on a snake I have leapt into the air, making a sound something like a gargling clown. When something ghostly has occurred I go silent though, tuning in to it. I freeze like a hunted thing, uncertain for a moment what to do next. Then, I either continue my business and hope it will go away, or retreat slowly to another room, turning on lights as I go. A snake I could get away from, maybe the gargling clown noise I made was an archetypal/animal response to alert the rest of the herd, but with a ghost it seems personal, a communication meant for you alone, and unpredictable. You cannot really get away from something that technically isn’t supposed to exist.”
Florida State University News
Reviews
All told, The Speed Chronicles deserves great praise for the audacity of the topic, the depth of the discussion, the diversity of its voices, and plain, old, good storytelling. – Michael Adelberg, New York Journal of Books
https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/speed-chronicles