TONJA MATNEY REYNOLDS
PUBLICATIONS
Bonnie's Spell in Streetlight Magazine April 2023.
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A Particular Preference in Men in Flash Fiction Magazine April 2022.
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Shoes in Women Speak: Volume Seven November 2021.
Second Place Winner at the Books By the Banks Writing Contest.
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The Good One, The Quiet One in Still: The Journal Fall 2021.
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Dogwood Rain, a novel excerpt in The Hong Kong Review (2:4) May 2021.
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Alone at Cherry Grove Mall in Terror House Magazine March 2021.
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The Path to the Dark Side is Covered in PB&J in 100 Word Story September 2021.
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An Interview with Matthew Goodman in The Hong Kong Review (2:1) January 2020.
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Irony in Literary Orphans August 2019.
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Firedamp in Streetlight Magazine August 2019.
And Performed in Streetlight Magazine Podcast June 2020.
The Coriolis Effect in Flash Fiction Magazine July 2019.
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Tangled Growth in The Hong Kong Review (1:1) Winter 2018.
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Life is Now in Literary Orphans December 2017.
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Creamed Corn and Ninja Stars in Four Ties Lit Review August 2017.
Also in Women Speak 10th Anniversary Collection February 2019.
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Postcards from Clockworld in The Bookends Review May 2017.
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Invisible Girls in Streetlight Magazine February 2017. ​
Also in Women Speak: Volume Three November 2017.
And Performed in Streetlight Magazine Podcast March 2017.
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Hostess of the Dead in Best of Ohio Short Stories: Volume II 2016.
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EVENTS
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Books by the Banks Writing Contest Ceremony - Cincinnati - March 2021
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Women of Appalachia Project: Women Speak at Northern Kentucky University - November 2019
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Miami University MFA Open Mic in Oxford, Ohio - July 2019
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Women of Appalachia Project: Women Speak at Berea College - April 2019
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Women of Appalachia Project: Women Speak at West Virginia University - October 2018
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Women of Appalachia Project: Women Speak at Northern Kentucky University - September 2018
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Kenyon Review Writers Workshop - Peter Taylor Fellow at Kenyon College - June 2018
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Rural Women's Studies Association Conference at Ohio University - May 2018
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Women of Appalachia Project: Women Speak at Ohio University - April 2018
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Appalachian Studies Association Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio - April 2018
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Women of Appalachia Project: Women Speak at Ohio University Southern - October 2017
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Women of Appalachia Project: Women Speak at West Virginia University - September 2017
ABOUT
Tonja Matney Reynolds writes literary and woman-centric historical fiction. Her completed novel DOGWOOD RAIN tells the story of a preacher's daughter who gets caught up in a power struggle in a 1930s Appalachian coal town.
She is currently working on a historical novel about the problem with unchecked power in a society where women have no rights.
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Tonja is represented by Amy Collins at Talcott Notch Literary.
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Her short stories have appeared in Still: The Journal, 100 Word Story, Streetlight Magazine, The Hong Kong Review, Women Speak anthologies, and elsewhere. Her short stories have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and for inclusion in Best Small Fictions and placed in contests.
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Tonja served as a Peter Taylor Fellow for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and was awarded the Michael Kenneth Smith Novel Fellowship at Porches. Her novel was longlisted for Regal House Publishing's 2020 Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction.
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