Chase Burke is a fiction writer from Florida. He earned his MFA from the University of Alabama’s Program in Creative Writing, where he worked as the Fiction Editor of the Black Warrior Review.
Chase’s fiction, book reviews, and essays have been published in many venues, including Glimmer Train, the Ploughshares blog, Salt Hill, Electric Literature, Black Warrior Review, Sycamore Review, Quarterly West, and Yemassee. His chapbook of very short stories, Lecture, was published in 2020 by Paper Nautilus Press as a winner of their 2019 Debut Series Contest. A second chapbook, Men You Don’t Know You Know, won The Cupboard’s 2020 contest and was published in April 2021.
Chase won Glimmer Train’s Award for Very Short Fiction and was the runner-up in Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize for Fiction, judged by Kelly Link. His story from Yemassee was noted as a Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. His fiction has earned scholarships to attend the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference and was selected as the winner of the 2020 Cecelia Joyce Johnson Award for the Short Story by the Key West Literary Seminar. He has also presented on fiction and storytelling at the AWP and Other Words conferences.
Chase is working on two books: a novel called Singalong about sibling rivalry and fame, and a collection of stories, many of which are set in Florida, tentatively called Some Sharks, or maybe The Waterpark.
You can contact Chase here, or see some things he has published here.