Awards and Nominations - Access Links via Titles
 
Pushcart Prize Nomination 2022 for "As Above, So Below," Coffin Bell Journal. Coffin Bell Journal has ceased publication as of Jan. 2025.

Professionally Published Pieces

"The Shakes,"
BarBar Literary Magazine, July 2024
Amazon Print or Kindle: Sweat: BarBar Vol. III
Kindle Edition: $0.00; Paperback Edition: $19.99
https://bebarbar.com/sweat/

"Death Lessons,"
Trace Fossils Review, Spring 2024
www.tracefossilsreview.org/death-lessons-kalie-johnson

"To Be Woman in my Family,"
New Plains Review, Fall 2023
Amazon Print Edition: New Plains Review: Fall 2023; $15.00
https://newplainsreview.submittable.com/submit

 "What We Call Stars,"
Humans of the World, Fall 2023
www.howblog.org/post/what-we-call-stars-kalie-johnson

"God Seems Smaller than the Sun and the Moon,"
Formerly The Howler Project, renamed Magpie Zine, Fall 2023
www.magpiezine.com/words/god-seems-smaller-than-the-sun-and-the-moon

"On Playing God,"
Thirteen Bridges Review, March 2023
Monthly Featured March 2023 Creative Nonfiction selection
www.thirteenbridgesreview.com/march-23-archive

"Single Dads with Back Tattoos,"
Jet Fuel Review, Spring 2023
jetfuelreview.com/kalie-johnson-spring-2023.html

"What Do You With That?"
"Holding On"
"Let The Good Things Last Today,"
Smitten Compilation, The Quillkeeper's Press, Spring 2023
Amazon Print Edition: $14.99
www.amazon.com/Smitten-Quillkeepers-Press/dp/B0BVCT461L

"As Above, So Below,"
Coffin Bell Journal, Fall 2022
Pushcart Prize Nomination 2022
Coffin Bell Journal has ceased publication as of Jan. 2025; this piece is inaccessible at this time.

"Can't," The Bookends Review, Spring 2021
thebookendsreview.com/2021/03/24/cant/

"Gag Orders," Fatal Flaws Literary Magazine, Spring 2021 
fatalflawlit.com/essays/gag-orders

"My Father Stayed," The Watershed Review, Spring 2019
watershedreview.com/nonfiction/my-father-stayed/
 

• various pieces, The Mill, Baldwin Wallace University Literary Magazine (2017-2019)

• various pieces, The Varia, ICHS, Lansing, IL (2014-2015)

• Poem about Fish Eyes, 6th Grade, published in an unknown book of poems (2009)