News

2.27.24

Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife audiobook, narrated by Lee Osorio, for sale!

2.19.24

The best dysfunctional family novels about mythmaking up on Shepherd.

1.19.24

Playlist for Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife up at Largehearted Boy.

1.16.24

Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife published by Overlook Press!

8.22.22

Debut Novel Eli Harpo’s Adventure to The Afterlife moves to Overlook Press.

3.10.22

Debut novel Eli Harpo’s Adventure to the Afterlife sold to Abby Muller at Algonquin Books by Rachel Ludwig at David Black.

7.1.21

“My Beautiful Bearded Wife,” Winner of the 2021 American Short(er) Fiction Prize, Judged by Susan Steinberg.

1.14.20

Quantum Convention, Winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association 2020 New Writers Award in Fiction.

5.7.19

New Job! Accepted the Position of Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Memphis.

9.24.18

Interview: 10 Questions for Eric Schlich. Abby MacGregor, The Massachusetts Review online.

2.17.18

Contributor Interview: Eric Schlich. Cassidy McCants, Nimrod International Journal online.

1.9.18

Quantum Convention, Winner of the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Prize, Judged by Dolan Morgan.

12.29.17

"Sunscreen," Honorable Mention, 2017 Barthelme Prize For Short Prose, Gulf Coast, Judged by Roxane Gay.

12.7.17

Quantum Convention & Other Stories, "Noteworthy" at Sarabande Books.

9.28.17

"Unpresidented!" Winner of the 2017 Fairy Tale Review Award in Prose, Selected by Helen Oyeyemi.

5.30.17

"Quantum Convention," Winner of the 2017 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, Selected by Justin Torres.

3.9.17

Interview: Featured Fiction: “Lipless” by Eric Schlich. Jamey McDermott, New South.

12.22.16

"Quantum Convention," Top-25 Finalist in Glimmer Train's Sept/Oct 2016 Short Story Award For New Writers.

12.8.16

Finalist for Smokelong Quarterly's 2017 Kathy Fish Fellowship.

12.6.16

"The Keener," A Finalist in Indiana Review's 2016 Fiction Prize

12.1.16

"Lipless," nominated by New South for a Pushcart Prize.

11.16.16

"Head Over Knees," Performed by Robert Sean Leonard, Airs on Selected Shorts: "Fateful Encounters."

9.13.16

Not Nobody, Not Nohow, A Finalist at Stillhouse Press.

8.11.16

Not Nobody, Not Nohow, A Semi-Finalist at Stillhouse Press.

8.1.16

"The Keener," A Semi-Finalist in Carve Magazine's Raymond Carver Short Story Contest.

6.22.16

"Girls," Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train's March/April Very Short Fiction Contest.

4.23.16

"Merlin Lives Next Door," Top-25 Finalist in Glimmer Train's January/February Short Story Award for New Writers.

11.24.15

"Night Thieves," Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train's September Family Matters Contest.