About

Stace Budzko has been published and/or anthologized in New Micro Anthology, Great Jones Street, Fiction Attic Press Anthology, Southeast Review, Inch, The Journal of Compressed Arts, Blip, Quiddity, Versal, Bridport Prize Anthology, Upstreet, Necessary Fiction, Prime Number, Norton Anthology of Hint Fiction, Press 53, PANK, Hobart, elimae, The Los Angeles Review, Night Train, The Collagist, Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Forward, Brevity & Echo and elsewhere. The screen adaptations of his stories, “How to Set a House on Fire,” “North End, 2010” and “Why I Don’t Keep a Daily Planner” have garnered numerous honors and awards as well as art and festival showcases.

Stace Budzko has been teaching, editing, and consulting for 18+ years.

Publications

STORIES (ONLINE) 

New Micro Anthology: “How to Set a House on Fire” (Summer 2018)

Great Jones Street North End, 2010,” “Blades,” “Why We Will Always Love You, Vera Knightville,” “Suppose” (Spring 2017)

Buzzfeed Why I Don’t Keep a Daily Planner” (Winter 2014)

Matter Press Writer/Teacher or: Protect Me From What I Want” (Fall 2013)

New World Writing Why We Still Love You, Vera Knightville,” “The Man in the Chair at the Kitchen Table,” and “Suppose” (Summer 2012)

Drafthorse Journal Mean, Mean Puppy” (Summer 2012)

Prime Number Magazine Perfect: A Baseball Story” (Spring 2011)

Necessary Fiction Are You Ready?” (Spring 2011)

Pank Beautiful Retards” (Summer 2010)

elimae “It Takes One to Know One (Triptych)” (Spring 2010)

Snow Monkey Space Monkey with Boo” (Spring 2010)

Hobart Sad, Sad, Sad” (Winter 2010)

Postcard Shorts “Wish You Were Here” (Fall 2009)

Monkeybicycle Give This to the Next Fool” (Fall 2009)

Night Train “Things Like This Drive Me Out of My Mind” (Fall 2009)

Itch The Right Profile” (Fall 2009)

Long Story Short “Steady Hooves at Clear Skies” (Winter 2006)

SmokeLong Quarterly Hands” (Fall 2006)

Carve Magazine Raymond Carver Short Story Award Finalist “La-Z-Boy” (Fall 2004)

 

ESSAYS (ONLINE) 

Matter Press Writer/Teacher or: Protect Me From What I Want” (Fall 2013)

Journal of Compressed Creative Arts Compression Statement” (Fall 2011)

Grub Street Daily Short Sharp Shock: Plays on the Short Form in Prose & Verse” (Summer 2011)

Grub Street Daily Say It Again: The Dylan Thomas Effect in Prose and Verse” (Spring 2011)

Grub Street Daily Bad News: What Happens While You’re Busy Making Other Plans” (Spring 2011)

Grub Street Daily Cause/Effect: Possibility and Consequence in Story and Verse” (Spring 2011)

Grub Street Daily Ordinary Places: How Flannery O’Connor Will Guide You Home” (Spring 2011)

Grub Street Daily Words & Images: An Approach to Story Truth” (Spring 2011)

Grub Street Daily The Anecdote: A Flash Fiction/Prose Poetry Conversation” (Spring 2011)

Grub Street Daily Object Lessons: Story Excursions in Prose & Verse” (Spring 2011)

Grub Street Daily Bad Behavior: A Larry David Moment” (Spring 2011)

Grub Street Daily Multiple Tellings: A Question of Point of View” (Winter 2011)

Grub Street Daily I Confess: Emotional Clarity in Story” (Winter 2011)

Grub Street Daily The Triptych: New Story Form for Writers” (Winter 2011)

Grub Street Daily Tell It Backward: Origins and Why They Matter” (Winter 2011)

Grub Street Daily Flash Drama: Craft Essay from the Workshop” (Winter 2011)

Free Press “In Between Days: Craft Essay from the Workshop” (Summer 2010)

Free Press “Senses Working Overtime: Craft Essay From the Workshop” (Winter 2010)

Free Press “Banging With My Goonies: A Metafiction on Microfiction” (Fall 2007)

 

AUDIO, FILM & ART ADAPTATIONS

Boston Book Festival Lost in the Bookstore” Audio (Fall 2013)

Boston Book Festival “Jasmine LaRose Takes to the Streets” Audio (Fall 2012)

Vail Film Festival Why I Don’t Keep a Daily Planner” (Spring 2012)

Bridport Film Festival “North End, 2010” (forthcoming Spring 2012)

Columbia Art League “Why I Don’t Keep a Daily Planner” Artist: Kate Gray (Summer 2011)

Bay Area Video Coalition “How To Set a House on Fire” Director: Henry Zaballos (Fall 2009)

 

INTERVIEWS 

The Review Review (Fall 2011)

The Los Angeles Review (Winter 2010)

Pank Magazine (Summer 2010)

Field Guide to Flash Fiction (Spring 2010)

The Collagist (Winter 2009)

 

ANTHOLOGIES

  Bridport Anthology “North End, 2010”

  The Incredible Shrinking Story “Toothpick Churches”

  Hint Fiction “Why I Don’t Keep a Daily Planner”

  What Doesn’t Kill You “The Dangers in Diving”

  Field Guide to Flash Fiction “Hanging Fire: A Meta-Narrative on Flash Fiction”

  Hacks “Hands”

  Flash Fiction Forward “How to Set a House on Fire”

  Brevity & Echo “How to Set a House on Fire”

 

STORIES (PRINT)

  Portland Monthly “I Like You ‘Cause You Like Me”

  Versal Journal “To Be Glad and Young”

  Upstreet “The Brown Army”

  The Los Angeles Review “Health & Beauty”

  Quick Fiction “Chicken with Bicycles”

  The Binnacle “Top of the Hour”

  Diner “Indian Summer”

  The Southeast Review “How to Set a House on Fire”

Services

Stace Budzko is available for manuscript consultations, lectures, panel presentations, and more. Please contact for more information.

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