Claire Guyton

I’m a transplanted southerner very happy to be living in Lewiston, Maine, where I work as a full-time writer and editor, and part-time librarian. My short fiction appears in Crazyhorse, Mid-American Review, Vestal Review, River Styx, Sliver of Stone Magazine, and many other journals, as well as in the Maine anthology Summer Stories. I have been a Maine Arts Commission Literary Fellow and a finalist for the Maine Literary Award, and my work has been selected for the Best Small Fictions anthology and nominated for a Pushcart. I’m currently revising a collection of linked stories, and researching a novel inspired by five real women of 1890s Central Maine.

See links to a few of my more recent publications just below (and links to all my published fiction here). Page down further for coming events. Contact me at Facebook.

The photo above captures the Great Falls between Lewiston and her sister city Auburn, showing my favorite part of Lewiston’s cityscape. You can learn more about Joan Cyr’s photography here.

Like Shit on a Cracker

Published by Vestal Review

Like a fine Merlot. That’s what he said; that’s what he called me. And that wasn’t enough to put me off.

When a man says you’re like a fine Merlot and still you get in his car, make small talk about the famed restaurant where he reserved a table in the back, let him take your hand as you glide through the parking lot… you sort of have to say, yeah, I asked for it.

SELECTED FOR BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2020

Anastasia, Broken Bird

Published by New Flash Fiction Review

If she had not been the sort of princess who, as a child, liked to trip her servants, would she have come to this moment? In this blackened room crowded by fabric and limbs and hair and moans, her face half-buried in the dirt floor, asking her lungs for just one more breath? Would she know the taste of gun smoke, of plaster dust, of her mother’s blood?

SAT Question: The Moon

Published by New World Writing

Four friends and co-workers, Jenny, Elissa, Mira, and Fran, are supposed to attend an important conference, which takes place in a town roughly a three-hour driving distance from where they live. To save on gas money, they naturally decide to ride together. The route they must take is made up primarily of one long stretch of highway.

Welcome

Like Shit on a Cracker

Anastasia, Broken Bird

SAT Question: The Moon

Magazine Launch 2/29!

Author Talk 3/12

Freewrite Session 3/15

Writing Workshop 3/28