Sean Gill

Sean Gill is a Brooklyn-based writer, playwright, filmmaker, and two-time Primetime Emmy-nominated editor. He won Michigan Quarterly Review's 2020 Lawrence Prize (judged by Laura Kasischke, for the best annual fiction in MQR), Pleiades' 2019 Gail B. Crump Prize, The Cincinnati Review's 2018 Robert and Adele Schiff Award (judged by Michael Griffith), the 2017 River Styx Micro-Fiction Contest, and the 2016 Sonora Review Fiction Prize (judged by Molly Antopol). In 2023, he was awarded a Sozopol Seminars Fellowship in Bulgaria, presented by the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation.

His written works have been published or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Threepenny Review, McSweeney's, ZYZZYVA, Carolina Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, Word Riot, Akashic Books, The Brooklyn Rail, The Common, Joyland, Columbia Journal, Barrelhouse, Hobart, The Offing, failbetter, Fiction Southeast, The Saturday Evening Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Hemingway Shorts: The Literary Journal of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, and So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, among others. He currently writes the Lurid Esoterica column for Epiphany.

He was chosen as one of the winners of The Fiction Desk's 2017 Flash Fiction Competition, the 2018 and 2022 Lascaux Review Prizes in Flash Fiction, and the 2023 Scottish Arts Trust Story Awards' Edinburgh Prize in Flash Fiction. He was nominated for the 2015 storySouth Million Writers Award, and was chosen as a finalist for the 2016 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award, the 2016 Heavy Feather Review Story Prize (judged by Joanna Ruocco), the 2018 Bat City Review Short Prose Contest (judged by Antonio Ruiz-Camacho), the 2019 New Letters Publication Award in Fiction, and the 2021 A Public Space/Academy for Teachers "Stories Out of School" Contest (judged by Jonathan Lethem).