“A Chance Meeting on Moore Beach” was shortlisted for Retreat West’s October Micro Contest. Read the 100-word story here.
“A Beginner’s Guide to Displacement” was shortlisted for Retreat West’s September Micro Contest. Read the 100-word story here.
“Waiting for the Earth to Put on Its Brakes” was shortlisted in Smokelong Fitness End-of-Summer flash fiction contest.
“Fortunately, Unfortunately” was longlisted for Not Quite Write Flash Fiction Contest, 2023.
Sally’s story, “In La Fortuna Sloth Sanctuary,” made the finals of NYCMidnight 100-word contest, 2023.
Sally’s photographs will be featured in Suburban Witchcraft Journal, Issue 5, Spring/Summer 2023.
“Afterbirth,” Sally’s 100 word story placed third in 2023 National Flash Fiction Day Micro Competition!
Her stories with YA protagonists, “Tenth Summer” and “The New Boyfriend,” earned her finalist in YA Voyage Lucky 7 Contest, 2022.
Sally has been a reader for Fractured Lit Magazine since 2022.
Sally’s 21-word memoir was longlisted in Gotham Writers “Past-Year Memoir Contest.” Her entry is here.
In January 2022 and December 2023, Sally was a guest editor for Five Minute Lit Magazine.
Sally’s flash fiction writing in the NYCMidnight contest 2021, earned her an honorable mention in the semi-final round.
Sally was a writer in residence at Rockvale Writers Colony (Tennessee) for two weeks in Spring, 2021. While there, she finished the first draft of a YA novel.
“Come Fly With Me” (a flash fiction horror story) was featured in episode 11 of Story Strumpets podcast. Check it out here. NOTE: the podcast is 40 minutes long, but the story is read aloud a few minutes into the podcast.
For fun, Sally sometimes works as an extra for films. For the 2020 movie, Antarctica, she was a nursing home aide and made the official trailer dancing with a resident during a Christmas party. Two seconds of fame.
Sally was honored to play the part of Ms. Estabrooke in a senior honor thesis movie by William Schwartz, called “Lessons in Red.” (2020)
Sally holds a Masters in Writing degree from Manhattanville College and a Creative Writing Certificate?Essay Writing Certificate from Wesleyan University.