Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Short Memoir
NEW! May 2024. Short Fiction in The Mantelpiece Literary Magazine. Something’s Up, a story set during COVID lockdown.
NEW! June 2023. Creative Non-fiction in Mud Season Review Getting Up There about Barbara’s love for backpacking, thoughts on aging, inspiration from May Sarton, and more.
MORE NEW! August 2022. Stuck, Short fiction published in WayWords Themed Anthology on “Vacation.”
June 2022. La Placa, short memoir piece published in Grande Dame Literary Journal.
Spring 2022. Double Latte, Short fiction published in Persimmon Tree.
November 2021. A Dreadful Case, Short fiction published in Please See Me, a journal focused on health-related issues. This story is inspired by Barbara’s many years caring for patients with neurological disabilities.
October 2021. Don’t Move, Short Fiction published in Flash Fiction Magazine – 3rd Place Winner in Fall Contest!
April 2021. Buried, Short Fiction published in Forge Literary Magazine.
Sept 2019. Sweet Alabama, a commentary on a trip to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Alabama, appears in Inter-Connecting Circles.
Spring 2018. A Tiny Little Historical Mystery appears on Open: Journal of Arts & Letters. It’s about a historical mystery Barbara helped solve as part of the research for her novel When It’s Over.
Autumn/Winter 2017. Flying History appears in The Write Place at the Write Time: a story about some of the research for the novel.
Fall 2017. The Right Thing appears in Blood and Thunder – an essay about a real-life-and-death decision in a clinic.
Spring 2017. Missing published in Stoneboat Issue 7.2.
February 2017. Re-Inventing the Wheel appears in Kaleidoscope Issue 74.
October 2016. Thin Blood featured in the inaugural family-themed issue of BLYNKT.
July 2016. Mapped Out in The Copperfield Review Vol. 15, No. 3; Barbara’s first published work of fiction, adapted from a chapter of her novel.
2015. Telling the Truth published in Ars Medica Vol. 11, No. 1, is a story about her early days as a nurse in London and beyond.
November 2014. Phone Home in The Writer’s Workshop Review.
2013. What I Miss, winner, The East Bay Monthly’s Summer Literary Essay Contest.
July 2015. A Beautiful Place featured in Still Crazy.
