Selected Publications

Jason Prokowiew’s essays and articles have appeared in a range of literary journals and other publications including Roxane Gay’s “The Audacity,” The Guardian, Salon, Cognoscenti, and North American Review. A selection of works follows.

Roxane Gay’s Emerging Writer Series, The Audacity:

• The Demulcent of Shame

Winner of the 2023 Lascaux Prize in Creative Nonfiction

Honorable Mention in the 2024 Winning Writers’ Essay Contest

North American Review:

• Why We Stole

The Guardian:

• Why I Quit Diet Culture

The Hooghly Review:

• Inheritance

Business Insider:

• On Our Year Abroad

WBUR’s Cognoscenti:

• What We Give-and Receive-with the Words, ‘I’m Sorry’

• My Father Survived Starvation as a Child

• What Does It Mean to Lose Your Home?

• Making Peace with My Nightmares

• My Two Dads: the One I Had, and the One I Deserve

• The Club Q Shooting is Not the Queer Story I Wanted to Tell

• Florida is Outlawing the One Thing That Helped Gay Kids Like Me

Salon:

• ‘Tis the Season to Love or Hate on Mariah Carey

• He-Man: Most Powerful Gen X Unifier in the Universe

Stories from the Stage:

• Sing! (from the Transformation episode)

• The Power of the Story

Brevity Blog:

• Don’t Listen to Anybody

• Good Art Friends

• Get Out There Like Gaga

• An Interview with Emily May about Some Girls

Humans of the World:

• My New Leash on Life

Pangyrus:

• George Michael: A Life—A Review