Shorthand Stories — Experimental Flash Fiction

About the Instructor - Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal

Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal (they/them) writes queer, working-class prose and poetry. Their work has won the Plaza Short Story Prize; been a finalist for the AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize, Iron Horse Literary Review/Texas Tech University Press First Book Prize, the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, the Kinder-Crump Award for Short Fiction at Pleiades, the Charles Simic Poetry Prize, and the Saints + Sinners LGBTQ Short Fiction Prize, among others; and longlisted for the W.S. Porter Prize at Regal House Publishing.

Bradshaw-Mittal’s work has been supported by Community of Writers, MASS MoCA, the Vermont Studio Center, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and Tin House. In 2026, they received a Lydia McCain Artist Fellowship from Erie Arts and Culture. They hold a BA in English from Sam Houston State University, an MFA in Fiction from Texas State University, and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi.