Published fiction, wins, long and shortlists.

General links:

https://www.reflexfiction.com/author/shannon-savvas/

https://banditfiction.com/the-read-more-project/ten-minute-reads/

https://www.thephare.com/novdec20

June 2021 - One of my stories has been included in the excellent article by Dan Brotzel:

• https://www.writerswrite.co.za/the-notorious-you-an-in-depth-look-at-second-person/

My shortlisted story “Ronnie” (the sultry virago) is included in:

Pleasure to Burn (2019) — From a cheerful cannibal to a transhuman plastivore, from a lovesick angel to a text-messaging devil, from a lonely teen with intimacy issues to a sultry virago who literally sets her bed afire — you’ve never read a collection of stories like this one! Every story starts and ends exactly the same way — with the opening and closing sentence of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury — and yet the stories themselves are nothing alike. mystery, suspense, horror, poetry, romance, crypto-mythology, science fiction, meta-fiction, teen strife, erotica, and humor. They are as different from one another as the twenty-one authors who dreamt them up. Come, meet the finalists from the 2019 Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Singapore, Canada, and Australia. You won’t be disappointed! ☆ “It’s hard to imagine so many different stories lay dormant between the opening and closing of every book. But they do, and you’ll find them here.” (re/ART) ☆ “A+!” (Tank) ☆ “A great example of ‘what-if’ fiction. Makes you wonder what kind of story you’d write!" (Lively Fiction) ★ Paperback and digital download ★ Available Now.

2023

April:

L’Esprit

• If the Line Breaks published

West Trade Review - Winner of the 2023 Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction

• Nave Nave Moe -

2022

July:

Bandit Fiction

• Each Time History repeats Itself, the Price Goes Up

• https://banditfiction.com/2022/07/07/each-time-history-repeats-itself-they-say-the-price-goes-up-by-shannon-savvas/

April:

Accepted for publication in Books Ireland flash series:

• Listening

Longlist Bournemouth Writer’s Prize

• Home Schooling

Shortlist Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Prize

• The Sister as a Fox

Longlist Flash500 Short Story Prize

• Moira

March:

Winner: The Fish Publishing Short Story Prize

• The Days

• https://www.fishpublishing.com/2022/03/16/short-story-prize-2021-22-results/

2021

June:

Longlisted for the Cairde Sligo Arts Festival Short Story competition.

• Home Schooling

May:

TSS Cambridge Flash Fiction: Longlist

• Wolf

The Read More Project - Bandit Fiction:

 https://banditfiction.com/the-read-more-project/

Review for Bandit Fiction:

https://banditfiction.com/2021/05/19/what-were-reading-this-month-genre-busting-korean-prose-reimagining-rumpelstiltskin-italians-in-the-orkneys-a-welsh-classic-and-robot-saviours/

Fish Publishing Flash Fiction: Shortlist

• Each Time History Repeats Itself, They Say the Price Goes Up

March:

Bandit Fiction.

• https://banditfiction.com/2021/03/17/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-woman-by-shannon-savvas/

February:

Flash500 Flash Fiction: Shortlist

• The Water Rises

Bandit Fiction.

• https://banditfiction.com/2021/02/07/the-ghosts-of-choirokoitia-by-shannon-savvas/

• https://banditfiction.com/2021/02/25/into-the-looking-glass-by-shannon-savvas/

January:

The Henshaw Prize.

• Second place in the 2020 winter short story competition with Breathe

• https://www.henshawpress.co.uk/december-2020/

Bandit Fiction.

• Sponsered podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1602268/7208350

The Sunlight Press

• To the Girl in the Cinema Booth

• https://www.thesunlightpress.com/2021/01/21/to-the-girl-in-the-cinema-booth/

2020

December:

Lunate Fiction

• Except by My Sister

• https://lunate.co.uk/lunate-500-other-people-results/lunate-500-shortlist-except-by-my-sister-by-shannon-savvas

November:

Exeter Short Story Prize: Longlist

• If the Line Breaks, No Worries

Flash500 Flash Fiction: Shortlist

• The Quality of Mercy is Actually Really Fucking Strained

Raven/Pulp Literature Short Story: Longlist

• The Quality of Mercy is Actually Really Fucking Strained

Strands International Flash Fiction Competition: Shortlist

• Reported and Unreported News of a Tragedy in the Neighbourhood

The Cabinet of Heed.

• The Amazon of Bloomsbury

  • https://cabinetofheed.com/2020/11/13/the-amazon-of-bloomsbury-shannon-savvas/

Pushcart nomination by The Phare for A Mile in Her Shoes.

https://www.thephare.com/amileinhershoes

The Phare Nov/Dec 2020

• Amazons Teetering on the Edge of a Black Sea

  • https://www.thephare.com/amazonsteeteringonedgeofablacksea

• A Mile in Her Shoes

  • https://www.thephare.com/amileinhershoes

October:

Acceptances and Upcoming publications in Sunlight Press and Bandit Fiction.

Across the Margin online literary magazine:

• I Have News of Your Career Plan and Mine

  https://acrossthemargin.com/i-have-news-of-your-career-plan-and-mine/

July:

Bray literary Festival Flash Fiction Award Short List:

• Pillion

• Read on Zoom at the Bray Festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LldzEHUlb3Q&ab_channel=BrayLiteraryFestival

Bath Short Story Award Short List: To be published in the anthology.

• The Song Paul Simon Didn’t Write

Reflex Fiction (Summer) Long List: To be published in Anthology.

• The Last Call of the Loon

June:

Flash Flood Journal Online 06/06/20:

• Athene Cunicularia

Reflex Fiction (Spring) Long List: To be published in Anthology.

• Florence Owens Thompson, Migrant Mother 1936

Bath Flash Fiction (Spring) Short List: To be published in Anthology.

• Chicken Fat

Sunlight Press: Date of publication to be confirmed.

• To the Girl in the Cinema Booth

Flash500 Flash Fiction Contest:

• Longlist with Batshit Crazy Jack

April:

Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize, (5107 entries) Long List of 200:

• Nave Nave Moe

Saboteur Awards: Two Anthologies I contributed to have made the shortlist.

• With One Eye on the Cows (Ad Hoc Fiction) @AdHocFiction with one flash fiction:

  • Lucky Girl

    • https://adhocfiction.com/

• The Real Jazz Baby (Reflex Press) @reflexfiction with three flash fictions:

  • Rita Used to Know How to Dance

  • Yes, Let Me Tell You about God

  • She Sleeps with Her Eyes Open

    • https://www.reflex.press/

  Flash500 Short Story Contest:

• Longlist with A Mile in Her Shoes

Cabinet of Heed:

• Stream of Consciousness Issue https://cabinetofheed.com/2020/04/08/stream-of-consciousness-drawer-two/ I See Your Looks

2019

November:

Anti-heroin Chic:

• Grief & Loss Issue http://heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/for-the-want-of-dying-by-shannon-savvas with For the Want of Dying

Literary Taxidermy:

• Shortlist and Publication in Pleasure to Burn Anthology with Ronnie

• https://literarytaxidermy.com/contests-previous.html

• https://literarytaxidermy.com/index.html

September:

Impress Prize for new Writers:

• Shortlist - results in January 2020 with Hare’s Corner

To Hull and Back:

• Longlist with Ronnie

August:

Grindstone Flash Fiction Prize:

• Longlist

Flash500

• shortlist for two Flash fictions.

• Winner with Symeona the Stylite

June:

Bath Flash Fiction shortlist.

April:

Reflex Fiction Spring Flash Fiction long list.

Flash500 (Short Story):

• Short list

• Hippo Man second prize

Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize:

• Long list with Home Schooling

TSS Flash Fiction prize (first quarter):

• Long list with two flash fictions

• The Kraken second prize

Flash500 flash fiction competition:

• two flash fictions long list.

Into the Void literary Magazine: Issue 12 Published in print and online Athene Cunicularia

https://intothevoidmagazine.com/article/athene-cunicularia/

March:

Gulf Coast Magazine Online: Flash Fiction - Oh, The Pretty Boys https://gulfcoastmag.org/online/winter/spring-2019/oh-the-pretty-boys/

March/April:

Cuirt Literary festival New Writing Prize:

• Winner with Palliation

https://www.cuirt.ie/

Cuirt Literary Festival, Galway, Ireland: April 10th Reading at the Town Hall Theatre of winning story Palliation during the Over the Edge Showcase https://twitter.com/OverTheEdgeOpen

Winter:

• Long list in Reflex Fiction (Upcoming Anthology)

• Long list in InkTears (Short Story), Flash500 (Flash Fiction), Fish Publishing (Short Story).

2018

Upcoming anthology 2018 Bath Flash Fiction Award.

July - Dover, flash fiction, published by @fishpublishing in Fish Anthology 2018 (paywall) http://www.fishpublishing.com/fish-books/ 

July - The Desert Road is Prone to Erosion, short story, published by @HeadlandJournal in Headland, Issue 13

• https://headland.org.nz/issues/issue-13/the-desert-road-is-prone-to-erosion/

July 6, Anywhere But Here, flash fiction, published by @FictiveDream 

• https://fictivedream.com/2018/07/06/anywhere-but-here/ 

June 16, Running Out, flash fiction, published by Flash Flood Journal 

• http://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/2018/06/running-out-by-shannon-savas.html

May 30, flash fiction, Rita Used to Know How to Dance, published by @reflexfiction 

• https://www.reflexfiction.com/rita-used-to-know-how-to-dance-flash-fiction-by-shannon-savvas/ 

May 18, Inheritance of Heart, short story, published by @MoreStorgy 

• https://storgy.com/2018/05/18/fiction-inheritance-of-heart-by-shannon-savvas/ 

February, Pedometry, flash fiction, published by @InkTears 

• https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55e389e2e4b0fd055b7905dd/t/5a791bc108522976eabf847a/1517886402562/InkTears103+Flash+Winners+2+-+2017.pdf

February 6, The House of Pink, short story, published by @CabinetOfHeed in The Cabinet of Heed, Issue Four

• https://cabinetofheed.wordpress.com/2018/02/01/the-house-of-pink-shannon-savvas/ 

2017

December 31, Jimmy Choo Shoes, flash fiction, selected First Place, published by @reflexfiction in Barely Casting a Shadow – Reflex Fiction Volume One (paywall)

• https://www.reflexfiction.com/barely-casting-a-shadow-reflex-fiction-volume-one/ 

September, Agnus Dei, flash fiction, “Highly commended” published by the New Zealand Society of Authors in Horizons 3, Poems and Short Stories (paywall)

• http://www.topwriters.co.nz/publications.html 

December, Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopaedia, flash fiction, published by Ad Hoc Fiction in the lobsters run free, Bath Flash Fiction Volume Two (paywall)

• https://bathflashfictionaward.com/2017/12/the-lobsters-run-free-bath-flash-fiction-volume-two/ 

January, Into the Looking Glass, short story, published by Brown Dog Books in Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2017 (paywall)

• https://www.bathshortstoryaward.org/anthologies-2013-and-2014/ 

2015

January, The Loneliness of the Long-distance Woman, short story, published by headland.org.nz/ in Headland, Issue 1 https://headland.org.nz/

• https://headland.org.nz/issues/issue-1/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-woman/