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My Dead Friend Zoe World Premiere | SXSW Film Festival, 9 March 2024
Montalvo Arts Center | Press Release, 13 June 2023
My Dead Friend Zoe | Deadline, 17 May 2023
Current Finalists | Lambda Literary Awards, 2023
“Fossil Land” | The Kenyon Review, Spring 2023
Stories No One Hopes Are About Them | University of Iowa Press, 2022
VQR Fall 2022 - AJ Bermudez
“The Real India” | Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 98, No. 3, Fall 2022
“All the Places You Will Never Be Again” | Chicago Quarterly Review, No. 35, Summer 2022
“Misery & Company” | Creative Nonfiction, No. 77, Spring 2022
Making Movies Is Hard Podcast, May 2022
iCON | Grand Prize Winner of the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, 2021
“Obscure Trivia of the Artarctic” | Boulevard, Vol. 36, Nos 107 & 108, Spring 2021
“Octopus” | Story Magazine, Issue #11, Summer 2021
“Conservancy” | Litro, Summer 2021
“Ní de aqui, ní de alla” | Arache Press, December 2020
“Casualty” | Columbia Journal, 24 October 2020
“Maslow’s Hierarchy of Post-Pandemic Wish Fulfillment Fantasies” | McSweeney’s, 5 June 2020
A. J. Bermudez Oxford Magazine 2020
“The Train Speaks” | Oxford Magazine, Issue #44, Summer 2020
“Walk-Off” | Hobart, 15 April 2020
“The Inside” | Strayer Studios & The Blackhouse Foundation, Sundance Film Festival, Jan 2020
“Totenhaus” | Black Static, Issue #68, Mar/Apr 2019
“Year of the Snake” | The Masters Review, 18 Mar 2019
Creative Screenwriting Interview | 13 Mar 2019
“The Breakneck Boys” | Concīs, Issue #5
“The High-Tech Dialectic of Vulnerability” | White Hot Magazine, 17 Dec 2017
“Eating the Leaves” | Lunch Ticket, Winter/Spring Issue 2018
WILDsound Interview, 2 Nov 2016

My Dead Friend Zoe | Deadline, 27 June 2023
“Announcing the 2023-2024 Steinbeck Fellows” | LitHub
“2023 Lambda Award Shortlist Finalists Announced” | Book Riot
“10 Books You Should Read in November” | The A.V. Club
“Bottle Girl” | Electric Literature, Issue No. 548, Fall 2022
“Misery & Company” | LitHub (originally published in Creative Nonfiction, No. 77), Spring 2022
“Rabbitfish” | SmokeLong Quarterly, No. 75, Spring 2022
MAKE IT Podcast, April 2022
“The Lady Will Pay for Everything” | Winner of the Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, 2021
“Mnemophobe” | Chicago Review, February 2021
“The Voice as Heirloom” | Fiction International, Issue No. 54, Summer 2021
“Ori Dreams of a Tree” | City in a Wild Garden: Stories of the Nature of Cities, Vol. 2, 2021
“Fall” | Baltimore Review, January 2021
“Water & Earth” | Bad Bride, October 2020
“Insertion” | The Offing, 23 June 2020
“The Body Electric” | Gertrude Press, Issue #32, Spring 2020
“Spinning the Record” | Exposition Review, Annual Issue, May 2020
The American Playbook Podcast, 17 February 2020
“The Middling Class” | LGBT Toronto Film Festival, Dec 2019
“On The Negligible Proximity of Money and Mouths” | Heirlock Magazine, Vol. I, Issue II, 17 Dec 2019
MAKE IT Podcast | Episode #19
“Sabbatical” | Cheap Pop, 25 Jan 2018
“Cain vs. Cain” | Iron Horse Literary Review, 1 Jan 2018
International Screenwriters’ Association | Top 25 Writers to Watch 2019
MovieBytes Interview, 5 May 2017
Two-Person Book Club Podcast