Fiction Writer

Douglas
Silver

Fiction published in The Sun, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Callaloo, and numerous other journals. Cited as a "Distinguished Story" in Best American Short Stories 2019. Elizabeth George Foundation grant recipient and former writer-in-residence at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Founder and executive director of Gotham Food Pantry.

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Publications

Callaloo
Vol. 43, No. 4 · Winter 2025
Gulf Coast
Issue 38.1
Short Story Project
Willow Springs
Issue 95
Kenyon Review
Fall 2023
The Sun
December 2021
Saturday Evening Post
Post Road
Issue #38
Electric Literature
September 2019
New England Review
Vol. 39.4 · Cited as a "Distinguished Story," BASS 2019
Day One
Issue 4.52
Crazyhorse
Issue 91 · Spring 2017
Chicago Tribune
Printers Row Journal, Issue #192
Cincinnati Review
"Found Peoples"
Winter 2013
Blackbird
Spring 2014
Narrative Magazine
Spring 2012
Sou'wester
Fall 2012
Passages North
Issue 35.1 · Pushcart Prize Nominee
Epoch
"Light Cycles"
Vol. 62, No. 2 · 2013
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Awards & Recognition

2019
Distinguished Story
Best American Short Stories
2019
Emerging Writer Award Finalist
New England Review
2015
Grant Recipient
Elizabeth George Foundation
2012
Writer-in-Residence
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
2011
Finalist
American Short Fiction Contest
2011
Honorable Mention
Zoetrope: All-Story
2011
Finalist
Narrative Magazine "30 Below" Fiction Competition
2011
Finalist
Copper Nickel Fiction Competition
2011
Finalist
Summer Literary Seminars Fiction Competition
2010
Finalist
Narrative Magazine "30 Below" Fiction Competition
2008
Finalist
Narrative Magazine "30 Below" Fiction Competition
2007
Woolrich Fellowship
Columbia University
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Editing Services

Douglas Silver has published fiction in Kenyon Review, The Sun, New England Review, and numerous other journals. He brings that editorial experience — and a frank, generous eye — to manuscripts at every stage.

Whether you're finishing a first story or shaping a collection for submission, the work is read carefully and responded to honestly, with full attention to your voice and intentions.

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Get in Touch

"I hate writing but I love having written."

Attr. variously to Auden, Parker, Norris & others