writer | editor | translator

flash
fiction

buying groceries
as an immigrant

14 JUNE 2025
2025 National Flash Fiction Day anthology
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the long
road home

LONGLISTED
2025 New Writers Flash Fiction Prize
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deathbed confessions
should be
more fun

10 MARCH 2025
Paragraph Planet
read

1 p.m. on
a sunday

25 APRIL 2025
Flare Literary Magazine
Best of the Net nominee
read

my inheritance is a coffee-stained couch

20 MAY 2025
Paragraph Planet
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FLOUR CHILD

SECOND PLACE
New Writers 100-Word Writing Competition 2025
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RECONNECTION

SHORTLISTED
New Writers 100-Word Writing Competition 2025
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the long
road home

4 JULY 2025
Underbelly Press
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about
alice

Alice Lyon (she/they) writes fiction.Originally from Missouri, she studied at Mount Holyoke College and Columbia University before ending up in Northern Europe, where they work as a writer, editor, and translator. Their work explores family dynamics, with a focus on disabilities and generational trauma. She is currently at work on a novel.When not writing, you can find them making pottery or getting a roll of film developed.

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My inheritance is a coffee-stained couch and a therapy bill. Each week, I unpack my heirlooms with a bespectacled woman who has a PhD. “Where in your body do you feel these emotions?” she asks, her therapy-speak chipping at my heritage until it dissolves,