jj peña

jj peña (he/they) is a queer, burrito-blooded writer. jj has won a few creative nonfiction flash/hybrid contests, from Fractured Literature (2021), Tinderbox Journal (2021), Santa Clara Review (2021), Mythic Picnic (2020), CutBank (2019), and Blue Earth Review (2019). jj's work is included in TheBest Small Fictions2023Best Microfiction2020, & Wigleaf’s Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions (2020). jj serves as a flash fiction reader for Split Lip Magazine.

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Guest Editor’s Note

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Issue 73.1 Fall 2024

When I first put out this open call for creative nonfiction, the conflict between Israel and Gaza had not escalated, and the magnitude of the damage to human life had not reached our collective consciousness the way it has now. It’s difficult to not talk about the war, and it would probably be disingenuous if […]