Wolfsong (ELJ Editions 2023), Kathryn Silver-Hajo’s first full-length publication, is a gorgeous hybrid collection of flash fiction and CNF stories capturing formative moments in girls’ and women’s lives. There is pain in these stories. And...
I think I found John Fulton's short story collections somewhere in my early writing days; after reading stories by Carver, Baxter, Bausch, Jean Thompson, and Tobias Wolff. I've always found a warmth and a beating heart in John's stories, a way of...
Myna Chang’s new flash collection, The Potential of Radio and Rain (out now from CutBank Books), is a revelation on the ferocity of human need set against the epic forces of nature. Her sentences snap as fast as a cyclone, whipping misfit...
Avee Chaudhuri: Children at play seems to be of recurring interest in the collection. There are all these powerful and evocative instances and sentiments of children at play, and the chapbook's longest piece is “The Rumpelstiltskin Understudies,...
Judge, Peter Orner, chose these 20 stories for inclusion in the next anthology! At My Job I Work the Robotic Arms by Kati Fargo Ahern Unfinished Equations by Reneé Bibby Odds and Ends by Brett Biebel The Cloud Lab by Megan Callahan Maid in America...
46 stories on our Longlist! We're working on selecting our shortlist now, and soon we'll announce those titles and get the stories off to judge Natalie Lima! The Winter Flute Leucosia’s Last Song Surfacing Wild Bill's Last Ride A Visit from Baba...
We're excited to name the winner and the runners-up! We'll publish all three micros in June! Winner! Grilled Cheese by Addison Hoggard Runners-up: A letter from the thrice-widowed, late Elsbeth Sorrow to the daughter she grew in the garden by Vic...
Sarah Freligh’s new collection, A Brief Natural History of Women, will be released in June by Harbor Editions. These flash and micro stories explore the rust-shot reality of women and girls perpetually trapped in a harsh place and time. Each...
From this top ten, editor Tommy Dean will choose a winner! Branded by Peter Bruno Lemons by Kristin Chemis Burnt Offerings by Mary Francis Grilled Cheese by Addison Hoggard Demon at Noon by J A Knight A letter from the thrice-widowed, late Elsbeth...
Jolene McIlwain's Sidle Creek, a collection of flash and short stories, is amazingly balanced between characters we care about and the joy and conflict in the natural world. This book will take you into the heart of the natural world, where it's...
Of these 42 stories, judge Peter Orner will choose 20 for inclusion in the next anthology! At My Job I Work the Robotic Arms A Corridor Full of Them Unfinished Equations Maybe in Moline The Cloud Lab Maid in America Brain, Brian Patrons Launch Day...
Sometimes you read a single story by a writer, and you become a fan for life. This happened when I read Andrew's story "Hole" in his first collection, The Theory of Light and Matter. In my early writing days, Porter's stories were a fantastic way...