Awards & Publications

Awards

11/22/22: “Frostbite” nominated for The Best American Mystery and Suspense series.

7/6/22: “Stoneboat”: Winner, The Highly Commended Award, Newcastle Short Story Awards.

5/12/22: “Arrowheads” : Finalist, Writer Magazine Flash Fiction Contest.

5/7/22: “Stalwart Firedogs”: Long-listed, Brilliant Flash Fiction Annual Contest.

12/22/21: “The Triple G” short-listed, Tucson Festival of Books.

8/20/21: Short-listed, Anne La Bastille Residency.

3/19/21: “The Triple G”: Short-listed, Fish Publishing 20/21 Short Story Contest. Top ten of 1631 entries.

2/24/20: “Quitting Time”: Winner, Writer’s Digest 2019 Short Short Story Award.

12/12/19: “Frostbite”: Finalist, Tulip Tree Review Genre Fiction Contest.

10/15/19: “At Onement”: Short-listed, Chester B. Himes Prize in Short Fiction (as “When All Goes Missing”).

6/6/19: “Preservation”: Winner, Sixfold Summer Story Competition.

12/22/15: “The Loon”: Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest.

Publications

Story Collections

Drifters

Jeffers’ first collection of short stories provides something for every taste. Shady Humor, Magical Realism, Sword and Sorcery, Intergalactic Futurism, Hard-Boiled Detective Noir, Buccaneer Surrealism, Dystopic Near Future, plus half a dozen literary endeavors for those preferring more mainstream tales. Half the stories were originally published by literary magazines or in anthologies. Available now in print at The Birch Store (specify if you want it signed) and soon in print and digitally at most book outlets.

The author’s proof of Gregory Jeffers’ new collection, “Dusk: More Stories”, is now available in print at The Birch Store. Mingled with ten or so “literary” stories are Jeffers’ signature genre-blending and genre-bending ditties. Sci-fi, crime, retro-futurism, horror, fantasy, magical realism, fabulist, and more, most with a strong peppering of dark humor. Three international contest winners and four shortlisted stories are in the mix. Outstanding reads and just in time.

“…a rare gift for observing what others overlook. Each word is weighed.” Henshaw Press

“…spectacularly well written.” The Writer Magazine

Available in print and digitally at e-retailors in April 2023. Signed print copies available now from the Birch Store.

Anthologies

7/16/22: “Stoneboat”: The Newcastle Short Story Awards Anthology
2/1/22: “Frostbite”: Jacked: An Anthology of Crime Fiction (Run Amok Books)
2/23/21: “Close Family”: Growing Up (Pure Slush)
3/24/18: “All the Good Dogs Have Been Eaten”: If This Goes On (Parvus Press)
6/1/15: “Canary”: Hard Boiled

Literary Journals

7/15/22: “The Triple G”: Spring ’23 issue of 34 Orchard
2/24/20: “Quitting Time”: Writers Digest
12/16/17: “The Cleansing of Sever Town”: Silver Pen
11/4/17: “At the Table of The Lord”: Bards and Sages Quarterly
6/1/17: “Lois and Sarah”: Corvus Review
5/13/17: “Going Under”: BULL: Men’s Fiction
3/25/17: “Needlepoint”: Chantwood Magazine
1/8/17: “Providence”: Typehouse Literary Magazine
1/8/16: “Promises”: Outposts of Beyond
5/15/15: “Pilothouse”: Everyday Fiction
5/1/15: “Drifters”: Suisun Valley Review