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Helen Raica-Klotz

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writing and workshops

Creative Writing

  • "Push," Literary Mama (forthcoming, Fall 2025).
  • Superior Stories, Michigan Writers Cooperative Chapbook Contest Winner (forthcoming, Spring 2025). 
  • “Black Sands,” Great Lakes Review (forthcoming, Spring 2025). 
  • “Being Arachne,” Awakenings Journal, March 2025.
  • “All I’ve Got is a Photograph,” Mom Egg Review, April 2025. 
  • “Willing Suspension of Disbelief,” The MacGuffin, Fall 2024. 
  • “‘What About the Cat? Feedback From an Online Writing Workshop,” Brevity Blog, September 2024. 
  • “Persistence of Memory,” Sad Girls Diary Literary Journal, July 2024. 
  • “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” Dead Girls Walking Anthology, May 2024. 
  • “The Mostly True Diary of a Part-Time English Instructor (With Apologies to Sherman Alexie),” Porcupine Literary Journal, May 2024. 
  • “Belly/Belie,” A Story in 100 Words, April 2024. 
  • “Playing with Boys,” The Muleskinner Journal, March 2024; reprinted in Writing @ SVSU, Winter 2025. 
  • “Homing Instinct,” Brevity Blog, March 2024. 
  •   “Meme-ing to Tell You,” Making Waves, Fall 2023. 
  • “Table/Tableau,” Bear River Review, 2019. 
  •  “(Not) On the Road,” Dunes Review, 2018. 
  • “Shifting Sands,” Walloon Writer’s Review, 2017. 
  •   “Persephone,” Bear River Review, 2016. 
  • “Jack O’Lantern,” Cardinal Sins, Spring 2005 (winner of the flash fiction prize).
  • “The Wedding Video, Circa 1993,” Paradidomi, Spring 2004.
  • “Making Love at 72,” Paradidomi, Spring 2004.
  • “Sleeping with Gaia, Paradidomi, Spring 2004.
  • “Eulogy for Deborah’s Unborn Child,” 43negative83, 2004.
  • “So, How About It?” 43negative83, 2004. 
  • “The Unnamed Woman: A Few Scattered Pieces,” The Spring Hill Review, August 2002 / Jihad bil Qalam: A Tri-City War Anthology, 2004.
  • “Delilah,” The Spring Hill Review, November 2001.
  • “Mary,” The Brownstone Review, Summer 1998.
  • “The Wives,” The Brownstone Review, Summer 1998.
  • “To Raphel, in Clarification.” Riverrun, Summer 1998. 

Classes, Workshops, and Residencies

  • Taleamor Writer in Residence, LaPorte, Indiana, July 2025 (upcoming).
  • Writing Lyric Essays Workshop (with Randon Billings Noble), November 2024.
  • Writing Creative Non-Fiction Workshop (with Megan Baxter), October 2024.
  • Monthly Mentorship Two: Katey Schultz’s Six-Month Writing Intensive (with Desiree Cooper), September 2024 - present.
  • Writing Fiction Workshop (with John Mauk), July 2024. 
  • Interlochen College of Creative Arts Writers’ Retreat (with Patricia Ann McNair), June 2024. 
  • “Write Here, Right Now” Writer-in-Residence, Door County, Wisconsin, February 2024.
  • Monthly Mentorship One: Katey Schultz’s Six-Month Writing Intensive (with Desiree Cooper), September 2023-April 2024. 
  • University of Michigan Bear River Writers’ Retreat (with Jerry Dennis), June 2018. 
  • Interlochen College of Creative Arts Writers’ Retreat (with Desiree Cooper), June 2017. 
  • University of Michigan Bear River Writers’ Retreat (with Sue William Silverman), June 2016. 
  • Interlochen College of Creative Arts Writers’ Retreat (with Anne Marie Oomen), June 2015. 
  • University of Michigan Bear River Writers’ Retreat (with Thomas Lynch), June 2014. 

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Contact me at raicaklotz@gmail.com.

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