Evan McMurry

Evan McMurry is an award-winning writer whose fiction has been published in more than one dozen journals, including Post Road, Euphony, Arcturus, Oddville Press, Lotus-Eater Magazine, Palaver, Mulberry Fork Review and more.

His story "Nothing Kinky" won the New Millennium Fiction Prize, and his story "Nixon in Heaven" won Exposition Review's Flash Fiction contest. "After the Water" was named 50-Word Stories' "Story of the Year" for 2019. "The Fall of Rabbi Gold" was selected as a finalist for the Al-Simāk Award for Fiction from the Chicago Review of Books.

He graduated from Reed College and received his MFA in fiction from Texas State University-San Marcos.

He is currently the Senior Manager of Social Media for ABC News. 

Find him on Twitter, or contact him at evanmcmurry@gmail.com.

Fiction 

• "After the Water" - Story of the Year, 50-Word Stories, July 2019

• "Mr. False Alarm Man" - Drunk Monkeys, August 2018
  

• "Nixon in Heaven" - Flash 405 Award, Exposition Review, February 2018

• "Nothing Kinky" - New Millennium Fiction Prize, Fall 2017

• "The Fall of Rabbi Gold" - Arcturus, May 2017; finalist, Al-Simāk Award for Fiction; placed, Glimmer Train Fiction Open

• "Yom Kippur" - Black Heart Magazine, December 2017

• "Injury" - Litbreak, August 2017
  

• "Struggle" - Euphony, May 2017

• "Ionian Devils" - Palaver, Spring 2017

• "Leaflets" - Lotus-Eater Magazine, Issue 5 

• "That Wasn't Me" - Scarlet Leaf Review, February 2017 

• "Floating" - Fourth & Sycamore, Fall 2017

• "Gum" - Capra Review, Summer 2017
  

• "Budhislava" - Mulberry Fork Review, Winter 2017

• "Burial Fund" - Anti-Heroin Chic, February 2017

• "Bones" - Oddville Press, Winter 2017

• "Newlyweds" - Rose Red Review, Autumn 2016

• "Brothers" - Corvus Review, Issue 6F

• "Drunk in English" - Post Road, Issue 17

• "Less" - The American Drivel Review

Book Reviews

• Otto Duv Kulka's Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, Ralph Mandel trans. (Bookslut 131)

• Friedrich Reck's Diary of a Man in Despair, Paul Rubens, trans. (Bookslut 130)

• Alex Danchev's Cézanne: A Life (Bookslut 124)

• Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, Donald Rayfield, trans. (Bookslut 122)

• John Burnham's After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America and Frank Tallis's Hidden Minds: The History of the Unconscious (Bookslut 121)

• Jane Gardam's Crusoe's Daughter (Bookslut 120)

• Ellen Ullman's By Blood (Bookslut 119)

• Amelia Gray's Threats (Bookslut 117) 

• Aglaja Veteranyi's Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta (Bookslut 116)

• Aleksandar Hemon's Best European Fiction 2012 (Bookslut 116)

• Richard Noll's American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox (Bookslut 115)

• David L. Martin's Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred (Bookslut 114)

• Sylvia Walby's The Future of Feminism (Bookslut 113)

• Eric L. Santner's The Royal Remains: The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty (Bookslut 108)

• Saul Frampton's When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know She Is Not Playing With Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch With Life (Bookslut 107)

• James Miller's Examined Lives (Bookslut 105)

• Zachary Mason's Lost Books of the Odyssey (Front Porch Journal 16)

• H. L. Humes's The Underground City (Front Porch Journal 15)

• Oscar Caseras's Amigoland (Texas Book Review 17)

Awards

• Winner, July 2019 Story of the Year, 50-Word Stories

• Winner, February 2018 Flash 405 Award, Exposition Review

• Winner, 2017 New Millennium Fiction Prize

• Finalist, 2017 Al-Simāk Award for Fiction, Arcturus

• Shortlisted, 2017 Glimmer Train Fiction Open.
  

• 2010 Ludvik Vaculik Award for Best Essay, given by Michigan State University’s Prague Summer Program