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Jeremiah Chamberlin wins Glimmer Train's Family Matters Fiction Prize!

by Anne Stameshkin

Huzzah and huge congrats to Jeremy, FWR’s Associate Editor, whose story “What We Can” has captured the $1200 first prize in Glimmer Train‘s Family Matters contest. Runners-up were, for second place, Yuval Zalkow for “God and Buses,” and for third place, Adam Theron-Lee Rensch for “Everything in Its Right Place.” The full list of finalists is available as a PDF here. Be sure to check out Glimmer Train‘s Summer 2010 issue, where “What We Can” will appear, or get a jump on it and subscribe now to one of FWR’s favorite literary magazines.


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After AWP

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

It’s a sunny Sunday morning when we wake and ready ourselves to depart Chicago. Gazing out the the window of our room on the 23rd floor of the Hilton, I can see a host of over-sized snow sculptures across the street in Grant Park—enormous frogs kissing, a six-foot tall hamburger, a gigantic head of Einstein, and an anatomically correct heart the size of a Volkswagen that is now broken in pieces, presumably after a bad Valentine’s Day last night. Beyond the park, stretching toward the horizon line, Lake Michigan is the color of blued, tin siding. It might be sunny, […]


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February/March preview and call for submissions

by Anne Stameshkin

write for us… Fiction Writers Review is seeking to grow our community of contributors. If you’re interested in writing a review, essay, or interview for us, check out our updated submissions guidelines. coming soon… Over the next few weeks, we’ll publish reviews of the following books (and more): Novels The Mayor’s Tongue by Nathaniel Rich, Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen, Beijing Coma by Ma Jiang, and The Women by T.S. Boyle Story collections In the Convent of Little Flowers by Indu Sundaresan and Delicate Edible Birds by Lauren Groff Biography Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis We’ll also offer some […]


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Fiction Writers Review at AWP!

by Anne Stameshkin

If you’ll be at AWP in Chicago this Thursday-Saturday, do stop by the University of Michigan table, where FWR will be representing with giveaway magnets and bookmarks; we’re hoping to spread the word about our site, grow our community of writers and readers, connect with publishers, and learn about new and forthcoming books. Sadly I won’t be at AWP myself (this wretched pneumonia forced me to cancel my flight today), but a number of FWR contributors will be in attendance, among them Associate Editor Jeremiah Chamberlin, who has generously offered to coordinate FWR efforts at the conference. If you’re longing […]


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FWR merch for sale!

by Anne Stameshkin

Show your support for Fiction Writers Review at our new CafePress store. By buying your dog a new t-shirt or treating yourself to a coffee mug, you’ll be putting a dollar or two toward some of the costs it takes to run this site and take FWR to AWP. Which means helping fiction get reviewed. Which means…drum roll please…helping fiction thrive. And while there’s no bookmark option on CafePress, you can order a fictiontastic thong. I’m still working on resizing the logo for magnets, which will be our AWP giveaway. Why magnets? They’re more durable than bookmarks or stickers, more […]


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shout-out: Preeta Samarasan on the lists!

by Anne Stameshkin

Preeta Samarasan‘s Evening is the Whole Day is getting some well-deserved list love. For the Guardian‘s best books of 2008, Ann Tyler names the novel as one of her top three (along with two other books reviewed on FWR, Miriam Towes’s The Flying Troutmans and Richard Price’s Lush Life), and Ali Smith also chooses it (along with Toni Morrision’s A Mercy and the reprint of Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity) for the Times Literary Supplement‘s Books of the Year List. Congratulations, Preeta! And thanks to fabulous lit-blogger Bibliobibuli for the news and links.


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AWP 2009

by Anne Stameshkin

This is just a happy little note to say that FWR will be at AWP in February 2009; this year, the conference is in Chicago. We won’t have a table of our own or a listing in the program, but we will be operating in guerrilla-style from a corner of the Michigan MFA table, spreading the Fictional Word with mugs and T-shirts and business cards (and possibly a working laptop). I’ll be actively looking to make publisher contacts, to recruit writer-reviewers, to meet authors, and to boost readership. If you’re going to be at the conference, let me know if […]




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