I’ve published seventy short stories, collected in my latest work, Visible Human, and three novels: The Road to the Island, In the City of the Disappeared, and Last Chance for First, as well as a memoir, If You Turn to Look Back, and two books of nonfiction, A Method to March Madness: An Insider’s Look at the Final Four and A Summer That Can Change Your Life (both co-written with C.J. Jones). A former editor of Quarterly West magazine at the University of Utah, I have edited ten anthologies of short stories: Flash Fiction (with James and Denise Thomas); Sudden Flash Youth (with Christine Perkins-Hazuka and Mark Budman); Flash Fiction Funny; Flash Nonfiction Funny (with Dinty W. Moore); Flash Nonfiction Food (with Kathryn Fitzpatrick); You Have Time for This; A Celestial Omnibus; Short on Sugar, High on Honey, 7-13 Word Love Stories (with Mark Budman); Best American Flash Fiction of the 21st Century (with Mark Budman; Shanghai, China) and Operation Panic: Cold War Stories of the Atomic Bomb (with Jimmy J. Pack Jr.).
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Most Recent Book:
ISBN 978-1954907669
Winner, 2025 Blue Light Book Award, Tom Hazuka has co-edited the short story anthologies Flash Fiction, Sudden Flash Youth, You Have Time for This and A Celestial Omnibus, and published the novels The Road to the Island, In the City of the Disappeared, and Last Chance for First. He teaches fiction writing at Central Connecticut State University.
“Tom Hazuka has long been a major editor of flash fiction anthologies, and for decades I’ve enjoyed reading his work in magazines. Now at last we have a full volume of his own flash stories and they’re brilliant. Raw, acerbic, soulful, funny. What a treasure.” -Robert Shapard, author of Bare Ana and Other Stories; co-editor of Norton sudden and flash fiction anthologies
“The characters in Tom Hazuka’s collection Visible Human are all wonderfully human as they confess and complain, hope and dream. They allow their transgressions to play out in full view, with humor and yearning, in arresting stories that ask for and earn the reader’s admiration and absolution.” -Pamela Painter, Author of Fabrications: New and Selected Stories
“With Visible Human, Tom Hazuka casts a wise and incisive glow over the commonplace as only the best storytellers can. He gives us narratives, with a diamond cutter’s precision, that are as universal as they are personally told. Here is sure word of those fissures and hard-won triumphs that mark our days.”-Robert Scotellaro, author of What Are the Chances? and Quick Adjustments
“I’ve been a fan (I’ve published four of his stories in my lit journal 100 Word Story) of Tom Hazuka’s writing for years, and I’m delighted by his new collection. These inventive stories run the gamut of emotions from deadly serious to slapstick, told in singularly Hazukian language that sparkles, surprises-and never fails to entertain.”-Grant Faulkner, co-founder, 100 Word Story
Operation Panic
ISBN 978-1960456076
An anthology of short fiction originally published between 1946 and 1980, with stories focusing on the use of atomic weapons.
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Flash Nonfiction Food
ISBN 978-1949116229
Working within a 750-word limit, each of these nonfiction pieces is driven by a hunger for something filling.
If You Turn To Look Back
ISBN 978-1954907669
If You Turn to Look Back combines memoir with political, social, and economic investigations of what it means to be an American and a citizen of the world.
Flash Fiction Funny
ISBN 978-1595408822
Tom Hazuka’s Flash Fiction Funny is a delight. Comical, silly, absurd, slapstick, quirky and always fun, it tickles. Well-crafted flashes by established and up-and-coming authors find humour in a wonderful array of characters and scenarios.
Sudden Flash Youth
ISBN 978-0892553716
In these stories of no more than 1000 words, well-known and emerging American authors spotlight crucial moments of change during coming-of-age.
You Have Time For This
ISBN 978-1932010176
Welcome to the book that satiates your craving for quality literature without taxing your schedule. Inside you’ll find fifty-three stories of love, death, fantasy, and foreign lands, collected by two of the top names in short-short fiction.
A Celestial Omnibus
ISBN 978-0807083352
Luminous fiction on themes of faith and meaning from favorite writers, including Sandra Cisneros, Andre Dubus, Louise Erdrich, Stephen King, Flannery O’Connor, Philip Roth, E. M. Forster and others.
Flash Fiction
ISBN 978-0393308839
The anthology that gave a name to a literary genre that has steadily grown in reputation and popularity over the years. No story in the book is longer than 750 words.
Last Chance For First
ISBN 9780979882401
An exciting, realistic coming of age novel of a smart star athlete surviving in high school.
In the City of the Disappeared
ISBN 978-1882593316
Harry Bayliss faces issues of loyalty and love in the political maelstorm of Chile in 1978.
Flash Nonfiction Funny
ASIN B07DTMSDRF
Flash Nonfiction Funny explores the exploding form of very short creative writing through humorous stories.
The Road
to the
Island
978-1882593231
Jimmy Dolan returns to his Connecticut hometown to seek the driver who killed his father in a hit-and run accident
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