Cheryl Skory Suma

Cheryl Skory Suma, writer

Cheryl Skory Suma launched her writing career with a self-published YA fantasy novel,  Habitan, which made the Longlist of the 2019 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards. Her poetry has appeared in La Piccioletta Barca and Public Poetry’s Enough Anthology. In 2019 she was a Semifinalist for Ruminate Magazine’s VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, and Shortlisted for Hippocampus Magazine’s Creative Nonfiction Contest, Blank Spaces spring & fall Flash Fiction contests and the Erbacce Prize for poetry. Other contest placements for 2020 include the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition, Semifinalist (for her second novel, gods Playground), and Pulp Literature’s Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest, Longlist. She is currently working on a short story collection and a third novel. Cheryl has a Masters of Health Science in Speech-Language Pathology and a B.Sc. in Honours Psychology.

Palm of My Hand — Volume 6, Issue 1

Palm of My Hand by Cheryl Skory Suma captures the tender, teachable moments between a grandfather and his granddaughter

Cheryl has taken second place in the September 2020 Write Prompt Challenge. You can read her silver medal story HERE.

Floccinaucinihilipilification — Volume 4, Issue 3

Read an excert [ here ]