Steve Linstrom – Writer

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Short Works

The Minnesota Digital Library chose my story Bullet Holes for their 2025-26 Creative Writing Showcase. You can read the full story here: https://collection.mndigital.org/exhibits/creative-writing-2025-26/feature/bullet-holes

The Talking Stick Vol. 34 published in the Fall of 2025 includes two stories of mine.  The Quest was selected for the first prize in the Creative Twist category and Ditch Creek was in the Creative Non Fiction category.
The 2025 West Side Writers Anthology was published in the Spring of 2025.  It is a collection of prose and poetry from the writing group I regularly attend.  I have three stories in the book including, The Second Line, A Mark of Vermillion and In From the Cold.  I also served as editor.  You can read the entire book for free here: https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/westsidewriters/
The Talking Stick Vol 33 was published in the Fall of 2024 and includes a story by me called In From the Cold.
Arizona Authors Association Literary Magazine 2010.  My story Mark of Vermillion was Second Place in the Fiction category and an early excerpt from The Last Ram was second in its category. 
The Talking Stick vol. 19 was published in 2010.  In includes a story of mine called The North Shore.
Arizona Authors Association Literary Magazine 2009.  My story Three War Ponies was Second Place in the Fiction category.