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 easy to imagine the...
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 Conditions: 1986...
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 for me to transition...
Of these 58 stories, 40 of them will be sent to judge Peter Orner. He will choose 20 for inclusion in the next anthology! At My Job I Work the Robotic Arms Bad Boy A Corridor Full of Them Unfinished Equations Maybe in Moline Night Manager The Cloud Lab Maid in America...
Tara Stillions Whitehead is a multi-genre writer whose powerful prose explores the fine line between fiction and truth. She regularly writes about addiction, abuse, and the underbelly of Hollywood, using personal history to explore memory and trauma via authentic,...
1st Place: The circus without white horses or elephants by Fiona Lynch 2nd Place: Sheepskin by Hannah Zhang 3rd Place: Too Distracted to Function by Lannie Stabile Shortlist Natalie Abbott dm Armstrong Christine Aucoin Shannon Blake Roberta Clipper Alexis Collins Kyle...
First Place: Raising Rabbits by F.E. Choe 2nd Place: Burn It All Down by Karen Jones 3rd Place: Casual Pinch, 1992 by Alice Kaltman Raising Rabbits by F.E. Choe Will These Elevator Doors Never Open by Robert Clementson Hope by Rebecca Donley Aquatic Mammal by Shayla...
Co-Editor of the New W. W. Norton Flash Fiction America Anthology The newest installment in W. W. Norton’s popular flash fiction anthology series, Flash Fiction America, will be released on February 14. Edited by James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne, this...
Raising Rabbits Will These Elevator Doors Never Open Hope Aquatic Mammal Anchorite A Strange, Silent Relief My husband said, keep baking bread Self-Solemnization Burn It All Down Casual Pinch, 1992 Monday Bath Cuckoo Drapes Coexistence A Lovely Light Pelican Hold Fast...
Raising Rabbits Will These Elevator Doors Never Open Regrets: About Shoes You Did Not Buy Hope Lost and Found Aquatic Mammal Anchorite A Strange, Silent Relief Before The Wave Gianni Appleseed My husband said, keep baking bread Self-Solemnization Lights in the...
“There is always a wicked secret, a private reason for this,” a line from W.H. Auden’s “Twelve Songs, VIII” came to mind when reading Sheila O’Connor’s Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions (Rose Metal Press, 2019), an elegant and ambitious melding...
1st Place: Tiny Little Goat by Jasmine Sawers Admittedly, I am a sucker for a funny/sad story that succeeds. It’s a rare beast, as the line between comedy and tragedy is a treacherous one indeed. In “Tiny Little Goat”, one of the shorter stories on the shortlist, I...