C. Wair
Claudia Wair
writer
STORIES
Fantasy in Flash Fiction Online — 7/14/26
Originally published in Writers Resist
Flash fiction in Lost Balloon — 7/8/26
Flash fiction in Vestal Review — 6/1/26
Microfiction in Bending Genres — 2/10/26
Dystopian flash in Writers Resist
Flash fiction in Flash Fiction Magazine
Craft essay: What Makes This Story Exceptional? — “Wild Mint” by Claudia Wair
Sci-fi flash in Sci-Fi Shorts
Content Warning: domestic violence
Creative nonfiction in JMWW
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Speaking the Names of the Dead
Microfiction in 50 Give or Take
Microfiction reprint in FlashFlood
Flash nonfiction in Decolonial Passage
Flash fiction in Every Day Fiction
Flash fiction in Pithead Chapel
Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist 2025
Creative nonfiction in Gastropoda
Urban fantasy in MetaStellar
Originally published in the anthology Dread Naught but Time
Flash fiction in Astrolabe
Nominated for Best Small Fictions
Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist 2024
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The Ragdoll Girls
Literary microfiction in The Centifictionist
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If I Had Wings
Literary microfiction in The Centifictionist
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The Keynote Speaker Has a
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Lot to Say
Literary microfiction in The Centifictionist
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Starlight and Mulled Wine
Fantasy micro in Rune Bear Weekly
Historical fiction in Sundial Magazine
Prose poem in Writers Resist
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Prose poem in Tangled Locks Journal
Literary microfiction in JMWW
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction
Literary flash fiction in WWPH Writes
Nominated for Best of the Net
Fantasy in Corvid Queen
Speculative flash fiction in The Wondrous Real
Ghost story in The Sirens Call - pg. 48
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Awake
Fairy tale in Fudoki Magazine
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Wake Up, Katy
Literary flash fiction in Reflex Fiction
Experimental fiction in Chrome Baby)
Nominated for Best of the Net
Literary flash fiction in Flash Fiction Magazine
Creative non-fiction in Typehouse Literary Magazine - pg. 24
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Herald
Fantasy flash fiction in Fudoki Magazine
Dystopian fiction in Writers Resist
Literary flash fiction in Fiction War
fantasy flash fiction in Fiction War
BIO
Claudia Wair is a Virginia-based Black writer whose work ranges from literary fiction to fantasy to sci-fi to creative nonfiction. She's currently drafting a contemporary fantasy novel.
Claudia's work has appeared in publications such as Pithead Chapel, Vestal Review, Bending Genres, Astrolabe, MetaStellar, Writers Resist, as well as several anthologies. Her fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, Best of the Net, and Best Small Fictions. She's a Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference alumna.
Claudia created The MAP journal, a 10-minute-a-day guided journaling method designed to help users improve their mindset and accomplish their goals.
When she’s not writing, you can find Claudia reading, camping, or obsessively analyzing episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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