Join us in celebrating the publication of our fourth anthology of flash and microfiction. We were honored to work with Guest Judge Morgan Talty on this project, and we want to share these stories with you at our online reading event. Morgan will also share some of his own work as our featured reader, followed by many of the amazing writers published in this collection.

Thursday, October 24, 2024, at 4 p.m. PDT / 7 p.m. EDT on Zoom

The following writers will read their stories published in the anthology:

• Margaret Adams
• Lisa Ferranti
• Elissa Field
• Miriam Gershow
• M. Lea Gray
• Wendy Holmes
• Jim Humes
• Lori Isbell
• Betty Martin
• Sara McKinney
• Danielle Mund
• Chris Negron
• Susan Perabo

Featured Reader: Morgan Talty

Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation. He is the author most recently of the debut novel Fire Exit. His debut short story collection, Night of the Living Rez, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the New England Book Award in Fiction, the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Honor, and was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and The Story Prize. His writing has appeared in The Georgia Review, Granta, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Narrative, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. Talty is an assistant professor of English in creative writing and Native American and contemporary literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Levant, Maine.