Barrett Bowlin

CREATIVE NONFICTION

• “Boolean Logic.” Lost Balloon, 15 May 2024

• “Dropkick My Heart.” HAD, 17 February 2024

• “Out for Blood (or Air, or Whatever)” Atlas & Alice, 21.1; Summer/Fall 2022

• “Nails.” The McNeese Review, 59.1; 2022

• “Where you’re from.” Barrelhouse, 22; Spring 2021

• “Matt & Matt &.” HAD, Spring 2021

• “Red Hands.” Hobart 22 May 2020

• “Spaz.” Stone Canoe 15.1; Winter 2020

• “Still Alive, Mostly.” The Fiddlehead 281.1; Autumn 2019

• “The Trick Is.” storySouth 47.1; Spring 2019

• “The Unfinished City.” Hobart, 1 May 2018

• “Randori, the Constant Attack.” Stone Canoe 12.1; Winter 2018

• “Skiagraphy.” Superstition Review 20.1; Fall 2017

• “Memento Mori.” The Los Angeles Review 27 Oct. 2017

• “Some of You but Not All of You.” The Southeast Review; Winter 2016 [finalist for The Southeast Review’s 2016 CNF Prize]

• “As Is.” War, Literature, and the Arts 28.1; 2016

• “Grand Thefts.” Ninth Letter 12.1; Fall/Winter 2015

• “Katamari.” Hobart, 16 April 2015

• “Three Rabbits.” Pacifica Literary Review, 12 Jan. 2015

• “Ukemi, the Art of Receiving.” The Rumpus, 29 May 2014

FICTION

• “Lollipop Sweet.” Mystery Tribune, 24 August 2025

• “For I Hungered, and Ye Gave Me.” TriQuarterly 164.1; Summer/Fall 2023

• “Milk Teeth.” Cutleaf Journal 22.1; 2 Dec. 2021

• “The Echoless.” Hoxie Gorge Review; Spring/Summer 2021

• “Snuff Film.” The Shanghai Literary Review 6.1; Winter 2021

• “Heavy Petting.” The Saturday Evening Post; 19 November 2020

• “Rough Beast.” Coffin Bell 3.3; Summer 2020

• “Replay.” Hotel Amerika 16.1; Winter/Spring 2018

• “Childish Things.” X-R-A-Y , 20 December 2018

• “Neighbors.” Jellyfish Review, 11 August 2018

• “You Must Give of Yourself.” Michigan Quarterly Review 56.1; Winter 2017

• “Hands Like Birds on Strings.” Bayou 66.1; Fall/Winter 2016 [Winner of Bayou Magazine’s 2015 James Knudsen Prize in Fiction]

• “Origin Story.” Mid-American Review 36.2; Spring 2016

• “Embryology.” The Adirondack Review, 1 December 2014 [Runner-up for The Adirondack Review’s Fulton Prize]

• “Your Generous Support.” Crossed Out Magazine 5.1; Fall 2013

• “Caltrops.” Camera Obscura 6.1; Summer 2013

• “But I Can Only Do It Once.” The Minnesota Review 79; Fall 2012

• “Pictures from the Coast of France.” PANK 6.14; Nov. 2011

• “New Careers in Science.” Meridian 24.1; January 2010

• “Ghosts Caught on Film.” Salt Hill 20.1; Winter 2008

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS

• “Magic and Beauty and Wonder: a Conversation with Aaron Burch.” The Rumpus, 3 Feb. 2026

• “The Slow Melting of Faces: a Conversation with Maria Bamford.” The Rumpus, 29 May 2024

• “Inherent Violence: a Conversation with Rita Chang-Eppig.” The Rumpus, 5 July 2023

• “To Write the Way We Live: a Conversation with Jonathan Escoffery.” The Rumpus, 7 September 2022

• “The Present in Its Most Vivid Colors: a Conversation with Ben Shattuck.” The Rumpus, 2 May 2022

• “Performing Violence: a Conversation with Jocelyn Nicole Johnson.” The Rumpus, 6 October 2021

• “Working from Memories of Memories: a Conversation with Lauren Hough.” The Rumpus, 14 April 2021

• “No Shortage of Creepy: and Interview with Jennifer Pashley.” Fiction Writers Review, 1 December 2020

• “Hurts and Old Feelings: an Interview with David James Poissant.” Fiction Writers Review, 29 June 2020

• “Not So Deadly Serious: an Interview with Amber Sparks.” Fiction Writers Review, 10 Feb. 2020

• “Some People Just Want to Fuck: an Interview with Kristen Arnett.” Fiction Writers Review 6 June 2019

• “Not All of Us Are on Vacation: Talking with Jason Allen.” The Rumpus, 22 May 2019

• “An Interview with Jason Allen.” Fiction Writers Review, 30 Apr. 2019

• “A-Sides, B-Sides, and Upsides: a Conversation with Joe Oestreich.” The Normal School, 7 Oct. 2017

• “Holding the Mic: an Interview with Joe Oestreich.” storySouth 44.1; Fall 2017

• “The Edges of Town: an Interview with Keith Lesmeister.” Fiction Writers Review, 17 May 2017

• “Fiction Spotlight: Contributor Benjamin Percy.” Memorious, 9 Jan. 2017

• “Northeastern Gothic: an Interview with Jaimee Wriston Colbert.” Fiction Writers Review, 17 Oct. 2016

• “Knowledge Is Irreversible: an Interview with Vanessa Blakeslee.” Fiction Writers Review, 9 Nov. 2015

• “Fiction by People Who Write Frankly: an Interview with Jennifer Pashley.” Fiction Writers Review, 10 Sept. 2015

• “This Writer’s on Fire: Jennifer Pashley.” The Toast, 6 Aug. 2015

• “An Interview with Jesse Goolsby, Author of I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them.” Harpur Palate 15.1; Summer/Fall 2015

• “Fiction Spotlight: Benjamin Percy.” Memorious, 14 Apr. 2015

• “Fiction Spotlight: Tom Cooper.” Memorious, 6 Feb. 2015

• “Fiction Spotlight: Anne Valente.” Memorious, 24 Oct. 2014

• “Fiction Spotlight: Jennifer Pashley.” Memorious, 26 Aug. 2013

• “What You Should Be Feeling: an Interview with Bill Plympton. Harpur Palate 10.1; Summer/Fall 2010

• “Mythic Versions of Real Places: an Interview with Anthony Doerr. Touchstone 37.1; 2005