Alan Sincic

Bacon
"Blame it on a sparsity of love—the drop-kick into the cradle or the smack of the belt or the back of the hand—but damned if we didn’t all of us lust after Maggie, picture her beside us, toy with a notion somehow, somewhere, to pluck her from the broom and the ladle and the hammer, from the blur of the day and the clamor of the till, to winch her up into our beasty arms and still her with a touch and then to hold her there, silent, in the dark, asleep or in a swoon, the moonlight there burning the sheet beside her, the scent of the damp earth in a drift above the sill."
Alan Sincic, Bacon
Tin Can Literary Review Volume One

Bacon was a Short Story Finalist for New Ohio Review Editor’s Prize and was featured online in their “Summer Exclusive” Issue (June 2019)

Respect
"A person of no account is what she was, and proud of it. She cared not a whit for what the talkers made of her, not the small talkers in a huddle above a bowl of punch or a mailbox or a bunting of undies in the sun, not the big talkers at the bar and the pier and the poker table, not even the silent talker who, with a tilt of the head at the sight of her, a sideward glance, a shade of a smile, obliterates her in the eyes of the others."
Alan Sincic, From the Depths, 2020

"The artwork that accompanied my story (Respect) is so beautiful I’m buying an extra copy of From The Depths, pulling out the page, framing it, and hanging it on the wall to remind me why I got into this crazy writing business in the first place." Alan Sincic

The Vistarama (Novel manuscript)
Finalist - Donald L. Jordan Prize For Literary Excellence

The Slapjack (Novel manuscript)
Short-listed – The First Pages Prize 2021

Peripheral Vision (Short Story Collection)
Finalist - The St. Lawrence Book Award – Fiction
Finalist - 2019 Autumn House Fiction Contest
Finalist – 2019 The Robert C. Jones Short Prose Book Contest [Pleiades Press]

The Babe
Big Fiction Magazine #6 2014
Winner - The 2014 Knickerbocker Prize [Big Fiction Magazine]

Dear Mr. Gottlieb
Texas Observer November/December 2019 Issue
Winner - 2019 Texas Observer Short Story Contest

The Smile Contest
Driftwood Press January 2020
Winner - Driftwood Press 2019 Adrift Short Story Contest
Pushcart Prize Nominee Driftwood Press January 2020
Nominee - 2020 Best Of The Net

Porter Must Be Stopped
Prism Review Spring 2020
Winner – 2020 Prism Review Short Story Contest
Runner-Up - G.B. Crump Prize In Experimental Fiction 2019 [Pleiades Press]
Long List - Fish Short Story Prize

Bob Sanders
American Writers Review 2020 Anthology [San Fedele Press]
Winner - American Writer’s Review 2020 Short Story Contest

The End Of The World
Vincent Brothers Review Summer 2021
Winner - Vincent Brothers Review 2020 Short Story Contest

The Hawaiian Club
Sterling Clack Clack Online May 2021 [J. New Books]
Winner — Sterling Clack Clack Fiction Contest April 2021
Finalist – 2019 Barry Hannah Prize In Fiction [Yalobusha Review]
Short Listed — 2020 Gulf Stream Summer Fiction Contest

Blind Maggie
Pulp Literature, Issue 31, Summer 2021
Winner - Pulp Literature 2021 Bumblebee Flash Fiction Award
Short Listed - New Flash Fiction Review Anton Chekhov Award For Very Short Fiction
Semi-Finalist American Short Fiction “Short(Er) Fiction” Contest

Go Figure
Westchester Review Volume 11, Issue 1 May 2020
Winner - The Westchester Review 2020 Flash Fiction Contest

The Hunting Of The Famous People
The Gateway Review Winter 2019/Fresh.ink online 2021
Winner - Gateway Review Flash Fiction Contest

Cooper
Prime Number Magazine Issue 173, Apr-Jun 2020
Winner - Press 53 The Prime Number Magazine Flash Fiction Contest

The Deluge
New Ohio Review Fall 2018
Pushcart Prize Nominee New Ohio Review Fall 2018 Issue
Finalist - Sequestrum Editor’s Reprint Award

The Piney Vista
The Saturday Evening Post Online January 8, 2021
First Runner Up - The Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest 2021
Finalist - 2020 Orison Anthology Award In Fiction
Short Listed - 2020 Bridport Short Story Prize

Bacon
New Ohio Review online June 2019
Tin Can Literary Review Volume One 2021 [Haunted Waters Press]
Finalist - The New Ohio Review Editors' Prize In Prose
Finalist - 49th New Millennium Writing Awards 2019

Random Sample
Hunger Mountain Journal Online 2015
Finalist - Glimmer Train June 2013 Fiction Open
Finalist - Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize 2015

The Postcard From Nowheresville
Overland Magazine Online Autumn 2020
Runner-Up -- Overland Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize

The Harvest
Nowhere Magazine Online 2021
Finalist - Fall 2019 Nowhere Magazine Travel Writing Contest (Fiction)

How To Catch The Ball
Cobalt Review (Volume Two) 2014/Fresh.ink online 2021
Finalist - 2013 Cobalt Writing Prize

Congratulations
Typehouse Literary Magazine Issue #18
Third Place - Typehouse 2019 2nd Biennial Short Fiction Contest

My New Car
2019 Launch Edition of A3 Press [Fold-Out Chapbook]

Sugar
Chapbook, Bremelo Press 2015

Sand
The Greensboro Review Fall 2015

Respect
From The Depths Fall 2020 [Haunted Waters Press]

The Ark
Burningword Literary Journal October 2019

Edward Is Only A Fish (Henry Holt, 1995/Kindle Edition 2015)
Children’s chapter book reviewed in NYTimes Book Review, Booklist, Horn Book, School & Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews and elsewhere.

German edition of Edward Is Only A Fish
(ArsEdition Munchen, 2000)