Alisa Ungar-Sargon
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Selected Writings

Fiction:
  • The Rush Magazine, "The Boys in The Yeshiva Whispered About Her" (May 2025)
  • Maudlin House, "An Airbnb in Albion, Michigan" (July 2024)
  • Monkeybicycle, "Lacey Is Asked A Personal Question During An Adult Game Of Truth Or Dare" (April 2024)
  • Wigleaf, "I Made My Boyfriend A Cake" (October 2021)
  • JMWW, "What Happens On Shabbos" (July 2019)
  • Lilith Magazine, "McDonald's Coffee" (April 2016)
Video:
  • Atticus Review, "Body" (Nov 19, 2021) [Video Essay];
  • "I Am Maxine Goldberg" (2018-2020) [Web Series]
  • New Plains Review, "Alice Fulton's About Face" (August 2017)
Pop Culture:
  • IPAs and Cupcakes Substack
  • Here for All the Reasons: Why We Watch (Anthology Essay, May 2026)
  • Alma, "High Maintenance (That Show About Weed) Captured the Life of Ex-Hasidic Jews" (February 2018)
  • OverthinkingIt.com, “Control in the Subconscious” (Jan. 2012)​​​
Creative Nonfiction:
  • Another Chicago Magazine, "Dispatch from a Pandemic: Skokie, Illinois" (April 5, 2020)
  • Image Journal's Good Letters, "Leonard Cohen's Holy and Broken Hallelujah" (September 2018)
  • Alma, "I’m an ‘Older’ Single Orthodox Woman. I Am Not Your Crisis." (April 2018)​

Recognition

  • Longlisted for The Bakwin Award for Full-Length Prose (Modest Girls manuscript)
  • Top 4 Manuscript in Split/Lip Press's Novel Reading (Modest Girls manuscript)
  • Best Small Fictions Selection ("What Happens On Shabbos" short story)
  • Nominated for The Pushcart Prize ("What Happens On Shabbos" short story)
  • Mythic Picnic finalist ("Dear Wigleaf" postcard)
  • International Video Poetry Festival Selection (Body video essay)
  • Dean David Mirsky Memorial Award for Excellence in Writing from Stern College, my undergrad alma mater
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