Cassandra's Published Works
that Appeared and Forthcoming in Literary Journals or Magazines
in Print & Online
Creative Nonfiction
Why Are You Here
Naked
A Future, Bright and Free
Sorrow
Stone Flowers
The Things That I Don't Like
Poetry
Not Good Enough
Perception: My Heart is Yours
I Never Had You
Broken
Deception
Torturing the Soul
Life Worth Living
Sonnet to My First Daughter
Rag-Doll
Never to Try Again
Not Speaking My Truth
and more
Flash Fiction
The Scent of White Chrysanthemums
Parenting Advice
Without Love
The Engagement
Allure
The Cabin
Finalist
A Future, Bright and Free
Sorrow
Empowered
Paying Attention
Allure
The Cabin
The Scent of White Chrysanthemums
Contest Winnings
Naked - 2nd Place in 2020 at a WOW! Women on Writing Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest
Nominations
She represented her college in several competitions with her fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and plays:
Things That Matter
Parenting advice
The Chair
Three Tickets for the Show
and more
Honorable Mention
The Cabin
Runner Up
Why Are You Here?
A Future, Bright and Free
Art & Photography
Losing Paradise
Iced Over
Her Chapbook and her Novella are Coming Soon along with
Mommy's Journal
Collection of Creative Nonfiction
Poetry Chapbook
Imprisoned
Cassandra Crossing
Biography
Cassandra Crossing immigrated to the US in hopes of a better life, yet she found heartaches and pain. She changed her name to fit in, yet even after many years, she's viewed as a foreigner. But as in the movie, "The Cassandra Crossing," as they survived a catastrophe, she's a survivor and she finds joy in nature and the little things.
She writes from personal experience about love, despair, loss, and hope. Her work includes short stories, creative non-fiction essays, flash fiction, plays, and poetry. She’s also working on a few novels and novellas.
Her creative nonfiction essay "Naked" won 2nd place, April 2020, in a WOW! Women on Writing contest and was published online. "Why Are You Here?" won Runner Up status and was published online in 2019, while "Sorrow" (2019), "A Future Bright and Free" (2020), "Empowered (2020), "Paying Attention" (2020), and her flash fictions "Allure (2017), "The Cabin (2019), and "The Scent of White Chrysanthemums" (2019) were finalists at contests by WOW! Woman on Writing. "The Cabin" received an Honorable Mention in 2020. An interview was published by them on January 5th, 2020, and one in April 2021 after "A Future Bright and Free" also won Runner Up statues and was published online.
Cassandra's creative nonfiction essay "Things That Matter", her fiction "Parenting Advice" and plays “The Chair” and “Three Tickets for the Show” had been selected as finalists by the college she attended to represent them in several literary competitions in recent years.
Her work appeared in online literary journals and magazines like The Scarlet Leaf Review, The Illinois State Poetry Society, 2019, 2020, WOW! Women on Writing, 2019, and forthcoming in Spark Literary Journal, Unlimited Literature Magazine (UL-Mag), and Ariel's Dream Literary Journal in print, in Beautiful Words by Ariel Publishing, The Bookends Review, 2020, and more.
You can also find some of Cassandra’s work on her website: ccrossing888.wixsite.com/cassandra and on Patron: www.patreon.com/CassandraCrossing.