Just noticed that my story, "Repairing the Robot," has made the notable stories list for the 2014 storySouth Million Writers Award. Thanks to Jason Sanford, the contest readers, and the nominators!

Lots of great readings next week in Cincinnati: Elizabeth Stuckey-French & Patricia Henley giving a talk and reading from their new book, Where Wicked Starts, October 2oth, 7PM, at Joseph Beth Booksellers Ann Valente reading from her new book, By Light We Knew Our Names, October 21st, 7PM, at Joseph Beth Booksellers. See my brief Amazon review … Continue reading Reading on October 23rd at Northside Tavern

My short essay on teaching and empathy was recently published in the English Honor Society's Fall Newsletter.

This ran a week or two ago, but I just got my contributor copies of "The Book of Locusts" in Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal. Really excited to have my story published here. Here's the first paragraph of the story:

My story, "The Alligators'Gods," (originally published by Indiana Review) was featured recently over at LitRagger. Here's a sample from the story: They had little alligators, dog-sized alligators, and big alligators. They tied them down across the hood of the truck, tied a few across the top. They draped rope over the sides and artfully knotted … Continue reading Short Fiction: “The Alligators’ Gods”

Spencer Dew over at decomP magazinE wrote an amazing review of Electricity and Other Dreams for the August issue. This might be my favorite one to date: "To embody the fairytale, to crawl into that space, sticky with candy and blood, curl up fetus-like and light up a mentholated smoke... Or, to phrase it another … Continue reading decomP magazinE Review of Electricity and Other Dreams

Thank you, Majesta Miles at Bookie Blog, for saying such kind things about Electricity and Other Dreams! http://bookieblogs.blogspot.com/2014/07/thirsty-thursdays-micah-dean-hicks.html Love the mention of Bodcaw. I been there.

Congratulations to Ben Hoffman on winning the 2014 Nelson Algren Award in short fiction. I'm really pleased to be included as one of four finalists. More information here.

Thanks to Locus Online for mentioning Electricity and Other Dreams as an entry of genre interest in the Frank O'Connor Award!