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

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

1. Kati Fargo Ahern
2. Reneé Bibby
3. Brett Biebel
4. Megan Callahan
5. Christine H Chen
6. Hillary Colton
7. Elizabeth Conway
8. DE Hardy
9. KA Polzin
10. Kim Steutermann Rogers
11. Arthur Russell
12. Robert Shapard

Featured Reader: Peter Orner

Peter Orner is the author of two novels, Love and Shame and Love and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, and two story collections, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge and Esther Stories. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and The Best American Short Stories. A recipient of Guggenheim and Lannan Foundation Fellowships, as well as a Fulbright to Namibia, Orner has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the University of Montana, Northwestern, and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. He is currently on the faculty of San Francisco State University and a member of the Bolinas Volunteer Fire Department.