Shoshauna Shy is a Midwestern poet, short story, micro-memoir and flash fiction author as well as a copy editor and proofreader. She is the founder of Woodrow Hall Editions, the Woodrow Hall Jumpstart and Top Shelf awards, and the Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf program. Shoshauna worked for the Wisconsin Humanities in Madison, Wisconsin where she helped create, coordinate and facilitate poetry programs for the annual Book Festival in downtown Madison for a decade.
With fifteen years of experience as a copy editor and proofreader, Shoshauna currently works as an editor for the online literary journal 101 Words, and as a copy editor/proofreader for Four Way Books. She is available for hire to help with the editing of flash fiction and poetry, along with copyediting of flash, nonfiction, poetry, essays and novels outside of those purviews.

Fiction Awards

Finalist for the WOW! Women on Writing Summer Flash Fiction Contest 2025
  
Finalist for the Wild Atlantic Writing Award out of Donegal, Ireland 2025
    Story included in 10th Anniversary Contest Anthology by Brilliant Flash Fiction 2024

Best of the Net nominee 2023
Shortlisted in annual contest by South Shore Review 2023
Best Small Fictions Award nominee 2023
Stories included in Bath Flash Fiction Award anthologies 2022, 2023
Notable Story distinction by Brilliant Flash Fiction 2022
A finalist for Fish Flash Fiction Prize 2021
Flash fiction story included in Best Microfiction 2021

                     Poetry Awards

                                                     Second Place in Jade Ring Contest sponsored by Wisconsin Writers Association 2025 
                                                       Honorable Mention in contest anthology by Passager 2025
                                                        Shortlisted for the Fish Publishing Poetry Prize 2025
                                                   Top Ten Honorable Mention for Northwind Writing Award 2024
                                                    Finalist for annual contest by Naugatuck River Review 2023
                                                      Honorable Mention for the Norbert Blei Poetry Award 2017
                                                       Finalist for the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid prize sponsored by Winning Writers 2015                                                                                          Two Outstanding Achievement awards for collections from the Wisconsin Library Association 2007 & 2017  
                                                      

Shoshauna's flash fiction, micro-memoirs and short stories have also been published by Blue Lake Review, Lunch Ticket, Months to Years, Adanna Literary Journal, Ink in Thirds, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, South Florida Poetry Journal, Does It Have Pockets, The Thieving Magpie, Literary Hatchet, New World Writing Quarterly, Cranked Anvil, Flash Boulevard, Five Minutes, Otis Nebula, Free Flash Fiction, Toasted Cheese Literary Journal, Flash Fiction Friday, Free Flash Fiction, Nixes Mate Review, Rathalla Review, Literally Stories, South Shore Review, Sledgehammer, Haunted Waters Press, FlashGlass, Five on the Fifth, BigCityLit, Scribes *MICRO* Fiction, 50 Give or Take, Ariel Chart International Literary Journal, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Blink-Ink, Every Day Fiction, Burnt Breakfast, 100-Word Stories, 101 Words, 50-Word Stories, Fiction Southeast, Sou’wester, New South Journal, Bending Genres, Literary Orphans, Microfiction Monday Magazine, Thrice Fiction, Crack the Spine, A Quiet Courage, Red Cedar, Every Writer, Flash Fiction Magazine, Prairie Wolf Press Review, and Silver Birch Press.

Fiction Awards

Poetry Awards

Books by Shoshauna Shy

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