CJ DaGren graduated with a master’s degree in creative writing in 2016 and has had short stories and flash fictions published in Calaveras Station Literary Journal, From Sac, and Mosaic. She also won first place in creative memoir and two second-place awards for short-story and poetry in the CSUS Bazzanella Literary Awards for 2015. All of these previously published and awarded stories are available to read on this site for free, below. She hopes you enjoy.
CJ DaGren is also querying her debut novel, Do We Part. Click on the button above labelled “Do We Part – Querying” to read about her her novel, the query, and what it’s all about.
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*Content Warning* Stories may contain wording, images, or situations that some people may find disturbing or offensive. Read at your own discretion.
Award Winning Stories:
The Dominic J. Bazzanella Writing Competition is offered every spring semester at California State University, Sacramento through the English department (link to information flyer provided from CSUS Arts and Letters Scholarship website). There is a graduate and undergraduate competition where a student may enter up to one submission in each category per year in their division. In 2015 CJ DaGren won in three of the four categories: first place memoir, second place short story, and second place poetry. (Published under Carolani Green).
You can read stories by clicking on their titles below.
First place – memoir
Bazzanella Awards 2015
*Content warning: sexual issues, abuse, language, alcohol
Other Publications: click on the titles to read the story
“The Washing”
Calaveras Station Literary Journal 2015
A Flash Fiction piece of surrealism (published under CJ Green)
*Content warning: sexual issues, imagery
“The Prizes of Gerald”
Calaveras Station Literary Journal 2015
A Flash Fiction piece of character (published under CJ Green)
*Content warning: sexual issues, abuse, language, imagery
“The Center of Her Universe”
Mosaic: Art and Literary Journal 2017
A Flash Fiction piece of surrealism (published under CJ Green)
And finally, some very short stories:
Short shorts, microfictions, or call it what you will
A selection of tweets that are mini-stories within themselves, and take only a minute to read.
CJ DaGren will update more stories as they are published and become available.
She recently started entering submissions in 2021 to literary journals, websites, and competitions. As she is further published, when the printing rights revert to her, she’ll make them available here.
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