Fiction

Forthcoming "A Summer's Night." New Limestone Review.

2025 "When God Opens One Door." Reunion. Vol. 14. (You can also read a PDF of the story here.)

2023 "Great Men of Modern Jewish History." JewishFiction.net. https://www.jewishfiction.net/index.php/publisher/articleview/frmArticleID/854

2023 "The Major Mistakes Have Already Been Made." White Wall Review. https://whitewallreview.com/the-major-mistakes-have-already-been-made/

2023 "Camp Life." Cherry Tree. Issue 9. https://washington-college.square.site/product/cherry-tree-a-national-literary-journal-current-issue-1-year-subscription-/195?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=3

2022 "The Same Dream." Spring. First-prize winner of the Rick DeMarinis Short Story Contest at Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts. http://www.cutthroatmag.com/winners.html

2022  "Dilly Dilly!" Summer. Issue Thirteen. Tiny Molecules. https://www.tinymolecules.com/issues/thirteen This story has been nominated for the Best of the Net 2023 Anthology.

2020 “For the Bounty Provided Us.” January. Volume 11.2. First-prize winner of Blood Orange Review’s inaugural fiction contest.  https://bloodorangereview.com/fiction/for-the-bounty-provided-us/ 

2019  "The Man on the Fence." Finalist Tupelo Quarterly Review Open Prose Prize. November.  http://www.tupeloquarterly.com/the-man-on-the-fence-by-joel-streicker/ 

2019  “Chimera.” Futures Trading. 6.2. http://futurestradinglit.weebly.com/exchanges/futures-trading-62

2018  “The Holy Hunchback.” Gravel. December. https://www.gravelmag.com/joel-streicker.html

The Internet is not forever (except if you do something embarrassing)! Gravel died sometime after publishing this story (purely coincidental, by the way) and took its archive with it to its shadowy grave. I've placed the story on my academia.edu page (https://sfsu.academia.edu/JoelStreicker).

2018  “Horse Walks into the Bar.” New Flash Fiction Review. Issue 14. http://newflashfiction.com/joel-streicker/ 

2017  “The Pursuit of Happiness.” Kestrel. Issue 38. Fall. (Translated into Spanish as "En busca de la felicidad," by Juan F. Hincapié, Revista Universidad de Antioquia, no. 335.)  https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/revistaudea/article/view/339929/20794794 

2017  “Trombone.” Burningwood Literary Journal. Issue 83. https://www.burningword.com/2017/07/trombone/

2017  “Dear Ms. Ainsley.” Great Lakes Review. http://greatlakesreview.org/dear-ms-ainsley/

2016  “I’m Really Going to Miss This.” The Opiate. Fall. No. 17. https://theopiatemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/the-opiate-vol-7-interactive.pdf

2014  “They Must Be Told.” Hanging Loose. No. 104.