LJ Pemberton is the author of Still Alive, which was longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award.
Publishers Weekly called Still Alive a “fresh and vivid debut.” This heady exploration of love and disillusionment in the contemporary age follows the misadventures of V as she contends with love, family dysfunction, and the “crummy job market of the aughts” in “aching prose.” Jason Christian, for Full Stop, said: “I keep thinking of Still Alive as a queer Fight Club (1996) for the millennial generation…If Fight Club touted moralistic dogma and material deprivation as a path to liberation, Still Alive laughs in the face of such naïve confidence in easy solutions.”
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Chelsea Stickle is the author of the flash fiction chapbooks Everything's Changing (Thirty West Publishing, January 2023) and Breaking Points (Black Lawrence Press, 2021). Her stories appear in CRAFT, Chestnut Review, Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and others. Her micros have been selected for Best Microfiction 2021 and the Wigleaf Top 50 in 2022. She's been nominated for Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction and the Pushcart Prize. She lives in Annapolis, MD with her black rabbit George and a forest of houseplants.
