Publications

Recent

My short story “One Marble” won second place in the 2025 West Virginia Writers contest and was also published in the literary magazine Appalachia Bare. You can read it here.

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Older

Some of the following were published under different versions of my name, including my maiden name, Anna Kelly, as well as a pen name I used for a while, “Sarrah J. Woods” (Sarrah for my grandmother, J for Jane Austen, and Woods because I like the woods).

Anthologies

• "Alice" (flash fiction piece) published in The Congress of Rough Writers: Flash Fiction Anthology Vol. 1 (December 2017)

Periodicals

• "We Need You to Be Yourself" (essay) published in The Charleston Anvil, November 2015

• "Letter Writing, Rediscovered" (short essay) published in Southwoods Magazine, August 2014

• “Why I’m Giving Up My Smart Phone” (op-ed) published in Charleston Gazette, September 2014

• “America’s Toxic Nickname” (essay) published in Freethought Today, October 2013

Guest Blog Posts

• "Becoming My Own Parent" (essay) published on Vocalis, February 2016

• "When My Cat Took Care of Me" (essay) published on Vocalis, March 2016