Interviews and Readings

October 8, 2024 Patricia is interviewed by Joanne Theiss about the novelette, Wild Plums. Conversation published in The Masters Review https://mastersreview.com/a-conversation-with-patricia-q-bidar-author-of-wild-plums/

September 17, 2024 Patricia interviews SmokeLong Quarterly contributor Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey https://www.smokelong.com/interviews/smoke-mirrors-with-esme-kaplan-kinsey/

December 18, 2023 Patricia interviews Smokelong Quarterly contributor Ani King https://www.smokelong.com/interviews/smoke-mirrors-with-ani-king/

September 18, 2023 Patricia interviews Smokelong Quarterly contributor jj peña https://www.smokelong.com/interviews/smoke-mirrors-with-jj-pena/

September 14, 2022 Interview: Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Judge Patricia Q. Bidar https://oxfordflashfictionprize.com/2022/09/14/patriciaqbidar/

September 1, 2022 Patricia Q. Bidar Interviewed by USF’s Invisible City EIC, Tanya Žilinskas. https://www.invisiblecitylit.com/blog/interview-with-patricia-q-bidar/

April 8, 2022 Beginners Guide to Five Flash Fiction Writers JMWW https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2022/04/08/beginners-guide-to-five-flash-fiction-writers-and-their-unique-styles-by-mandira-pattnaik/

March 8, 2022 International Women's Day 2022: 5 Stories You Must Read https://mandirapattnaik.com/international-womens-day-2022-5-stories-you-must-read/

December 2021 Featured: Writers’ Winter Fair by Mandira Pattnaik https://mandirapattnaik.wordpress.com/writers-winter-fair-2021/

December 2021 Patricia interviews April Butler for Flash Monsters!!! https://flashmonsters.wordpress.com/2021/12/07/the-patricia-q-bidar-interview-of-april-bradley/

August 2021 Patricia interviewed by Lucien Desar for Flash Monsters!!! https://flashmonsters.wordpress.com/2021/08/27/the-lucien-desar-interview-of-patricia-q-bidar/

February 2021 Patricia reads Pardon Me For Moonwalking, from No Contact Magazine Issue 15 https://youtu.be/QA9TKUiG_Xk

June 2020 Patricia reads The Gap Year, from Little Patuxent Review Summer 2020 Issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgmNoeW7hWs&feature=youtu.be

June 2020 Jonathan Cardew, Series Editor, interviews Leonora Desar on her five faves from May 2020 https://bendinggenres.com/2020/06/15/leonora-desar-my-fave-five/

March 2020   Patricia Bidar interviewed by Maria Alexandra Barrios for SmokeLong Quarterly   http://www.smokelong.com/smoke-mirrors-with-patricia-q-bidar/

Nominations & Awards

2024 Are You Experienced?, Nominated, Pushcart Prize, Moon City

2024 Mutes, Nominated, Pushcart Prize, Revolution John

2024 Science, Finalist, 57th New Millennium Award

2024 La Señora, 2023 Wigleaf 50 Longlist

2024 Cuttlefish, Selected, Best Small Fictions, National Flash Fiction Anthology

2024 The Polish Bride, Nominated, Best American Food Writing, Ruby Literary Magazine and Press

2024 The Polish Bride, Nominated, Best American Short Stories, Ruby Literary Magazine and Press

2023 Cuttlefish, Nominated, Pushcart Prize, National Flash Fiction Day Anthology

2023 The Polish Bride, Nominated, Pushcart Prize, Ruby Literary Magazine and Press

2023 Papel Picado, Pokrass Prize Runner Up, Flash Fiction Festival Six, Ad Hoc Press

2023 Cuttlefish, Judge’s Choice, Scratching the Sands, National Flash Fiction Anthology June 2023

2022 Flux, Contributor, Best Small Fictions 2023 (Alternating Current Press)

2022 When We Vanished, Nominated, Best Small Fictions, Monkeybicycle

2022 Loosies, Nominated, Pushcart Prize, Litro Magazine

2022 Typtophan (with Trinidad Bidar), Nominated, Best American Short Stories, Ruby Lit Mag

2022 Company, Nominated, Pushcart Prize, Atticus Review

2022 The Little Jenny, Nominated, Best of the Net, Invisible City

2022 Tryptophan (with Trinidad Bidar), Nominated, Best of the Net, Ruby Lit Mag

2022 Visitacion Valley 1962, Nominated, Best Microfiction, Ghost Parachute

2021 Finalist, Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition

2021 Finalist, Moon City Short Fiction Award

2021 Lucky Day, Best Microfiction nominated, April Bradley

2021 The Little Jenny, Pushcart Prize nominated, Invisible City

2021 The Little Jenny, Best Small Fictions nominated, Invisible City

2021 When I Think of Home, Best Small Fictions nominated, South Florida Poetry Journal

2021 Three Ways: A Triptych of Love and its Imprint, 2020 Wigleaf 50 Longlist

2020 Third Place, Ellipsis Flash Fiction Collection Competition

2020 Semi-finalist, American Short[er] Fiction Contest (ASF)

2020   Little Will, Best Microfiction, Nominated, Ghost Parachute

2020   Little Will, Pushcart Prize, Nominated, Ghost Parachute

2020   The Angle of Depression, Best Small Fictions, Nominated, Okay Donkey

2020   The Other Susana, Best Small Fictions Anthology 2021, Nominated, 805 Literary and Arts Journal

11/18   Mythic Picnic Prize, Wigleaf Postcard