The Short Story Month celebration continues all over:
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Follow author Emma Straub on her year-long, 12-city “book tour” for her collection Other People We Married. She writes, “There are twelve stories in Other People We Married, and each story takes place in a different location. Every month for the next year, I will read a [...]
Editor’s note: As part of our continuing celebration of Short Story Month, we’re delighted to present a guest post by Matt Bell, editor at Dzanc Books and of the literary magazine The Collagist.
here’s so much good fiction online that writing about only a few of the magazines out there seems an incredibly unfair task: During [...]
Siobhan Fallon’s debut story collection You Know When the Men Are Gone lets readers into a secret world of military families. Behind perfectly manicured lawns and Family Readiness Groups, Fallon’s stories reveal the stress of repeated deployment, wounded service members, and the difficulties of homecoming. Beth Garland, herself a military spouse, reviews a collection infused with “grief, heroism, and bitter disappointment.”
This week’s featured title is Josh Weil’s story collection The New Valley. Weil was born in Roanoke, Virginia, to a family of would-be “back-to-the-landers.” With an agronomist father and a mother “deeply attuned” to nature, it comes as no surprise that Weil pays such careful attention to the natural world in his writing. The New [...]
Editor’s note: As part of our Short Story Month celebrations, we’re delighted to present this guest post by agent Julie Barer of Barer Literary.
I once dated a man who shared my taste in fiction almost completely. Diehard fan of the often overlooked Canadian writer Robertson Davies? Check. Particularly drawn to novels that played with genre [...]
This week’s challenge: take a tabloid headline—the wackier, the better—and write a short story taking the headline completely seriously.
For example, you might check the Weekly World News’s website or search for images of its front page (as it’s sadly no longer being printed).
Or you might sift through the News of the Weird [...]
Short Story Month wouldn’t be complete without some first-rate flash fiction. This morning, enjoy the following selections by Tara L. Masih, editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction and author of the excellent collection Where the Dog Star Never Glows (Press 53, 2010) and the flash fiction chapbooks Fragile Skins [...]
Here’s another helping of short-story related news for this week:
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BookCourt in Brooklyn presents two reading from new collections:
Monday, May 16th, at 7:00 pm: Danzy Senna, from You Are Free
Tuesday, May 17th, at 7:00 pm: Donald Moss
David Abrahms of The Quivering Pen will be doing daily giveaways of short story collections the week of May 16—i.e., [...]
“Trying to be weird and strange isn’t as interesting as coming up with a reason for it,” Arthur Bradford says of his 2001 short story collection, Dogwalker, in an interview with Robert Birnbaum. Labeling Bradford’s work “weird” may be a bit of an understatement, given stories that include a woman giving birth to a glowing [...]
I don’t remember the first time I read “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. It seems I’ve been haunted by that story forever: the dusty June center of town where the annual lottery is held, in my imagination a composition of all the Vermont towns I’ve lived in, and the blind cruelty of the populace a [...]
