Hey, I'm Barbara

Barbara Diggs is a Washington, DC native who landed in Paris, France over 24 years ago–supposedly for two years. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming in numerous wonderful literary journals, including Your Impossible Voice, Funicular Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Fractured Lit, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Disappointed Housewife, and FlashBack Fiction. Her stories have also won Highly Commended awards with The Bridport Prize and the Bath Flash Fiction Awards, and placed as finalist in SmokeLong Quarterly’s Grand Micro Competition 2023 and Best of the Net 2023. Her work has also been nominated for a Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfictions. 

In her other life, Barbara is a former lawyer and freelance writer who, among many other things, has written six non-fiction books for adolescents and thousands of pages of copy for law firms. She lives with her husband, teen sons, and a cute Russian tortoise. She’s currently working on a novella-in-flash and trying to remember to sit with her back straight.