Avery Other is a human person who likes telling stories. She lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she works full-time as an unreliable narrator. She is definitely not a plastic lawn flamingo with delusions of grandeur.
Her favorite color is pink.
accomplishments & other ʎsɯᴉɥʍ pɹᴉǝʍ
Bethlehem Writers Roundtable
2026 Short Story Award Winner, “Some Things We Just Knew,” to be published in Illusive Worlds: Sweet, Funny and Strange Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy, forthcoming in 2026
2025 Short Story Award Winner, “Smiling Fish,” to be published in Illusive Worlds: Sweet, Funny and Strange Tales of Science Fiction and Fantasy, forthcoming in 2026
2025 Short Story Award Honorable Mention, “Peaches,” BWR Author Archive: Issue 82, Autumn 2025
Pulp Literature
2025 Raven Short Story Contest Winner, “She is Magic, She is Myst,” published in Pulp Literature Issue 50, Spring 2026 ($)
NYC Midnight Finalist x 7 &
2023 500-word Fiction, 2nd Honorable Mention, “Eventually”
2024 Rhyming Story, 1st Honorable Mention, “Wait of the World”
2025 500-word Fiction, 2nd Honorable Mention, “A Sour Feast of Fears”
Twist in the Tale
2024 150-word Weird Fiction Subgenre Winner (Cosmic Horror) & 5th Place Overall, “dear void”
Twisted Tournament Round Leaderboard x 5, Overall Leaderboard x 3
Twist Magazine Vol. 2, “Mortal Coils” (page 14) & “Playlist for the Apocalypse” (page 33)
Twist Magazine Vol. 4, “To Brood and Be Both” (page 20)
Writing Battle Showdown repeat finalist & 2024 Top 10 Battle Raven
Author of several short stories and poems that her mom thinks are pretty cool
Novel progress: 0.2%
More to come. Avery is just getting started!
