My Story About a Trans Teenager Was Published in a Literary Magazine!
I had forgotten about the submission and was in a deeply depressive mood when the news came
I’ve finally breached a milestone in a career path that I’ve fancied since the fourth grade.
I have been traditionally published in a respectable literary magazine! Not for some random thought-piece or pretentious criticism, but for my fiction — my art, in its purest and most unabashed form.
When I say respectable, I just mean that it’s a magazine that has had its featured work considered for literary awards and selected for inclusion in anthologies like “Best American Poetry” and “Best American Short Stories”.
On December 12th of 2023 West Branch Literary Magazine accepted my short story “Zayn for a Day” retitled “Harlem, 1991” for publication in their Spring/Summer Issue #105. It is told from the POV of young transsexual foundling Zayn Youngblood and follows a day in her life from waking up in the morning to sneaking off at night with her friends to rob a wealthy…
