Berkeley Fiction Review

The Parakeet

And now, Nasrin spent her days at home, alone. And the honey afternoon light, viscous and…
The Hatch

The darkness is a challenge, but the hardest part is not knowing what happened to everyone…
To The Quick

I think I love her, but it’s too soon to say that, so I just tell…
Sudden Fiction Contest 2025 Winners

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Berkeley Fiction Review’s 2025 Sudden Fiction contest!
Growing Pains

I’ve never believed in soulmates, but if I’d had to name one person to call mine,…
Bayshore

What she had not expected was all of the things that came with the fertility exam.…
Interview with the Author: Joan Sung on Family, Writing, and her New Memoir, Kinda Korean

I have been writing since as long as I could remember. Back in the early nineties, I would…
Collectively Conscious

My twin brother and I always believed that if we could read each other’s minds, we…
Enlightenment

You parked the carts of fruit across the intersections of Nanjing and arranged the fat ones…
Golgori

Each century went by the same as the last: his command, waking the morning skies of…