About Kayleigh

Kayleigh Shoen’s fiction has appeared in literary magazines including Barrelhouse, X-R-A-Y, Milk Candy Review, [100 word story], and others. Her stories have been longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 and nominated for Best of the Net.

 

Kayleigh holds an MFA from Emerson College, where she received a Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, the WLP Graduate Writing Award for her thesis, and recognition for her work curating the Graduate Reading Series.

 

She has taught writing and literature classes both online and in-person through Grub Street, Arlington Community Education, and independently. While at Emerson, she taught expository and creative writing through the First Year Writing Program, emersonWRITES community writing, and the Pre-College Creative Writers Program.

 

Current Popular Classes Include:

  • Read and Discuss: Best American Short Stories

  • The Writing Life: Journaling

  • Flash Fiction Writing Workshop

  • Your Story’s Ready, Are You? Learn to Submit Your Work for Publication

 

Kayleigh is available for teaching opportunities online and in New England. Visit the Contact page to reach out.

Publications

Non-fiction

Why Write Fiction from Real Life? : GrubStreet.org : April 2022

What Makes a Great Writing Prompt? : GrubStreet.org : August 2022

Fiction

99% Perfect : Scribes Micro : July 2024

Class Reunion : MoonPark Review : September 2023

Suds n’ Duds : Maudlin House : April 2023

At the Darling Slaughterhouse : Barrelhouse.com : February 2022 Best of the Net Nominee

Wants : BLINK INK : September 2021

An Hour into the Whale Watch I Remember Why We Broke up the First Time : 50-Word Stories : April 2021

Valuation : X-R-A-Y : April 2021

Things I’m Holding (for You) : Milk Candy Review : November 2019 : Wigleaf 2020 Longlist

Intergalactic Litany : All Worlds Wayfarer : June 2019

Another Unwanted Pregnancy Story : Green Briar Review : January 2019

Enhanced Methods of Tidying : Remixt, A Magazine of Multiple Perspectives : July 2017

Under the Shells : [100 word story] : August 2016

Urban Legends, or Now That Your Emails Have Stopped : Crack the Spine : June 2016

After Dad’s Funeral I Look up my Childhood Home on Google Streetview : Exposition Review : February 2016 : Flash 405 Writing Contest Honorable

Two Thumbs Up : Allegory : November 2015

Rejected Madlibs : originally appeared in Bastards and Whores (defunct) May 2012. Reprinted in Doubleback Review Issue 3.2, October 2021.