Mehdi M. Kashani

Writings

  • SHORT FICTION
    • “Janitor and Judge” The New Quarterly Upcoming
    • “The Wedding of Leila and Hamid” West Branch Upcoming
    • “Purge” Booth (May 2025) Web
    • “One Thousand and One Cousins” Fiction on the Web (February 2025) Web
    • “A Short Bob” Your Impossible Voice (Fall 2024) Web
    • “Born Under the Shadow of Death” Silk Road Review (Spring 2024) Web
    • “Punchline” EVENT (Winter 2023/2024) Print, later anthologized in Coolest American Stories 2025
    • “The Corner Stall” Sonder (Spring/Summer 2024) Print
    • “So Long, Gregor” Adda Stories (August 2023) Web Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2023
    • “The House Behind the Crossed Windows” Southern Humanities Review (Spring 2023) Print
    • “The Fruit on the Farthest Branch” Humber Literary Review (2021) Print Web
    • “Stray Dandelions” The New Quarterly (2021) Print Web
    • “Good Girl” Potomac Review (2021) Print Web
    • “The Naked Dream” Sou’wester (2021) Print
    • “On the Bank of the Nile” Zone 3 (Fall 2020) Print 
    • “Move Around Us” EVENT (2020) Print
    • “After the Election” Epiphany (2020) Print Web
    • “Homemade” descant (2020) Print Longlisted for Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2017
    • “While Tehran Was Silent” Hermine Annual (2020) Print Finalist for Canada’s National Magazine Awards
    • “Bazaar Bozorg” Bare Life Review (Vol 3) Print
    • “The Mansion” Saturday Evening Post (Fall 2019) Web
    • “The Late Bloomer” The Fiddlehead (Summer 2019) Print
    • “Honey” Flock (May 2019) Print
    • “Cured” Four Way Review (Spring 2019) Web
    • “Relapse” Emrys Journal (May 2019) Print Winner of Sue Lile Inman Fiction Award / Nominated for Pushcart 2020
    • “Destination: Tehran” Minnesota Review (Spring 2019) Print
    • “The Thing” The Capra Review (Winter 2019) Web
    • “Slight Turbulence Ahead” Bellevue Literary Review (Fall 2018) Print Shortlisted for Tennessee Williams Short Fiction Prize
    • “Hollowed Out” failbetter (Fall 2018) Web
    • “Extremely Lucky” Belletrist (2018) Print
    • “A Galaxy Far Far Away” Bird’s Thumb (October 2018) Web
    • “The Lacking World” Rumpus (June 2018) Web
    • “5-Across” Watershed Review (May 2018) Web  Nominated for Best of Net 2018
    • “Curse of the Last Illiterate” Catapult (April 2018) Web
    • “Heavenly Nourishment” Portland Review Vol 63 (April 2017) Print Nominated for Pushcart 2018
    • “Bloody Steak” The Los Angeles Review No. 21 (Spring 2017) Print Web
    • “Dayi” The Malahat Review No. 198 (Spring 2017) Print Interview
    • “In Silhouette” Hobart (January 2017) Web
    • “The Tajreesh Incident” Litro (November 2016) Web
  • FLASH FICTION
    • “Sisters and Lists” The Boiler (2019) Web
    • “Viral” Wigleaf (Fall 2018) Web
    • “Save the Date” Apt, a Literary Magazine (November 2017) Web Longlisted for Wigleaf 50
    • “The Gaffe” Passages North (May 2017) Web
  • DRAMA
    • “The Architect” Post Road (2022) Print Web (forthcoming)
    • “The Innocent Gaze of Irene Jacob” Santa Ana River Review (Fall 2020) Web
  • NON-FICTION
    • “In Isolation, But For Once Not Alone” The Bare Life Review (May 2020) Web
    • “Movie Night in Tehran” The Walrus Print Web
    • “Shaping a New Voice – Or, How the Specter of Censorship Still Haunts Me” carte blanche (July 2017) Web