KYLE ALDERDICE

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SELECTED WRITING

"Richard" / FINALIST: The 2026 Saints and Sinners Short Fiction Contest
"Once in Royal David's City" / A Very Sufjan Christmas
"Young Soldier's Diary, May 1431, A Knot of Towers That Was a Church Before the War" / American Short Fiction
WINNER: The 2025 American Short(er) Fiction Prize
"June, East 74th Street" / Pinch Journal Online
"Two Naval Officers Are a Bit Confused to Be Honest" / Strange Hymnal
"The Thanksgiving Visitor" / Swing
"Happy Birthday" / Carve
EDITOR'S CHOICE The 2023 Raymond Carver Contest
"4 Poems" / The Broadkill Review

ABOUT

Kyle Alderdice is a fiction writer, poet, and French translator from New York. He is the winner of the 2025 American Short(er) Fiction Prize chosen by Tony Tulathimutte, and his work appears in Pinch, Swing, Carve (Editor's Choice 2023 Raymond Carver Contest) and Strange Hymnal, among others. He has received funding from the Bread Loaf Translators' Conference, which he attended in 2024 and 2025. He studied French and Political Science at Duke University, and he holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington where he also taught Creative Writing.

Kyle lives in New York City and is actively seeking representation for his first novel.

Kyle Alderdice

CONTACT

Inquiries can be sent to:

alderdicekyle@gmail.com