Last week we featured Johanna Skibsrud’s collection This Will be Difficult to Explain, and we’re pleased to announce the winners:

Kathy Jambor (@kathyjambor)
Genevieve Chan (@gcanceko)
Laura Hauther (@trebuchet)

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Friends say they saw our bromance bloom.
I took them aside and said, admiringly, “that Nick Ostdick is alright.”
Nick took them aside and said, wistfully, “Shawn seems like a cool dude.”
There was a beer here, a beer there, always with chaperones. Then mano-a-mano happy hours that spilled into dinners that spilled into the manliest of frozen [...]

Critics compare her to Canada’s native short story master, Alice Munro, but Johanna Skibsrud has a charm—and a voice—all her own.

Ben Fountain made a lot of noise with his prize-winning collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara. Turns out he can write a damn fine novel, too.

Short Story Month countdown: 7 days to May!

Fiction Writers Review will host the third annual Collection Giveaway Project: a community effort by lit bloggers to champion great short story collections. The brainchild of Contributing Editor Erika Dreifus, 18 bloggers participated in the CGP 2011, giving away dozens of collections.

How to participate in The Collection Giveaway [...]

Last week we featured Robert Garner McBrearty’s Let the Birds Drink in Peace as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners:

Bonnie Jo Campell (@bonniejocampbel)
LorenaBathey(@LorenaBathey)
Theresa Lemieux (@mama_theresa)

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Last week we featured Aftermath, by Scott Nadelson, as our Book-of-the-Week title, and we’re pleased to announce the winners. Congratulations to:

Carolyn West (@temysmom)
Renee Johnson (@writingfeemail)
Matt Sullivan (@SEANandMICHELLE)

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This week’s feature is Scott Nadelson’s new story collection, Aftermath. The book was published in early September by Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts, an independent press that focuses on American literary fiction and narrative nonfiction, with a growing interest in international literature and books in translation. This is Nadelson’s third collection. He is also the [...]

In conversation with Julie Judkins, author Scott Nadelson discusses how the “mad mystic hammering” of Bob Dylan inspired him to become a writer, why being a formerly reluctant reader informs his teaching, and how New Jersey has evolved in his fiction from an actual place to a state of being.

V. Jo Hsu considers Rahul Mehta’s debut story collection, which she says addresses issues connected to sexual, racial, and cultural identities in artful ways, and through evocative language.