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It takes many small things to make something big. Fifty-five acclaimed and emerging writers-including Emma Bolden, Ron Carlson, Kelly Cherry, Stuart Dybek, Blake Kimzey, Roland Leach, Bobbie Ann Mason, Diane Williams, and Hiromi Kawakami-have made the debut of The Best Small Fictions 2015 something significant, something worthwhile, and something necessary. Featuring spotlights on Pleiades journal and Michael Martone, this international volume-with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler serving as guest editor and award-winning editor Tara L. Masih as series editor-is a celebration of the diversity and quality captured in fiction forms fewer than 1,000 words. Small fictions by Adam O’Fallon Price, Anna Lea Jancewicz, Anya Yurchyshyn, Blake Kimzey, Bobbie Ann Mason, Brent Rydin, Casandra Lopez, Catherine Moore, Chris L. Terry, Claire Joanne Huxham, Dan Gilmore, Dan Moreau, Danielle McLaughlin, Dave Petraglia, David Mellerick Lynch, Dawn Raffel, Dee Cohen, Diane Williams, Emma Bolden, George Choundas, Hiromi Kawakami, J. Duncan Wiley, James Claffey, James Keegan, Jane Liddle, Jane Swan, Jeff Streeby, Jonathan Humphrey, Julia Strayer, Kathryn Savage, Kelly Cherry, Lauren Becker, Leesa Cross-Smith, Lindsey Drager, Lisa Marie Basile, Maureen Seaton, Michael Garriga, Michael Martone, Misty Ellingburg, Naomi Telushkin, Randall Brown, Roland Leach, Ron Carlson, Ron Riekki, Rusty Barnes, Seth Brady Tucker, Stefanie Freele, Stephen Orloske, Stuart Dybek, Valerie Vogrin, William Todd Seabrook, Yennie Cheung, Zack Bean
The Best Small Fictions 2015From Queen's Ferry Press- Amazon Sales Rank: #301750 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.99" h x .37" w x 5.00" l, .40 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 160 pages
Review "The time is right for a Best of the Year anthology." --Stuart Dybek, author of The Coast of Chicago and Ecstatic Cahoots"This is truly a well-selected collection and it has given me a new appreciation for small fiction. The Best Small Fictions 2015 will make you a believer in small fiction as literature." --Joseph Spuckler, Evil Cyclist's Bookshelf "In this extraordinary collection of small fictions . . . readers are gifted with stories that slap wings onto their backs or drop anchors into their hearts, oftentimes both." --The Small Press Book Review"The Best Small Fictions 2015 achieves [a] bright, burning end through its broad sweep of stories, leaving the open-minded, open-hearted reader breathless." --Brandon Romano, Fiction Southeast"These small fictions are small only in length, not in impact. Their minuteness provides a different lens upon life--one that illuminates the telling yet elusive moments that bigger stories often overlook.... A series celebrating these tiny gems is long overdue." --Grant Faulkner, cofounder of 100 Word Story, author of Fissures "The loud and long message of the seemingly quiet and the definitely short is in ample supply inThe Best Small Fictions 2015.... [T]here is pathos, depth and welcome language-fireworks in these small gems." --Nuala Ní Chonchúir, author of Miss Emily"Super-short stories . . . have exploded in popularity. Where should newbies start? With Best Small Fictions 2015 . . . [r]eaders will be introduced to a wealth of fresh and existing talent....Discover some haunting voices for yourself this fall." --Rebecca Foster, BookTrib"What an astonishing book--how practically every fiction seems a vaster story told in brief." --X.J. Kennedy, author of Fits of Concision: collected poems of six or fewer lines
From the Author Featuring small fictions by Adam O'Fallon Price, Anna Lea Jancewicz, Anya Yurchyshyn, Blake Kimzey, Bobbie Ann Mason, Brent Rydin, Casandra Lopez, Catherine Moore, Chris L. Terry, Claire Joanne Huxham, Dan Gilmore, Dan Moreau, Danielle McLaughlin, Dave Petraglia, David Mellerick Lynch, Dawn Raffel, Dee Cohen, Diane Williams, Emma Bolden, George Choundas, Hiromi Kawakami, J. Duncan Wiley, James Claffey, James Keegan, Jane Liddle, Jane Swan, Jeff Streeby, Jonathan Humphrey, Julia Strayer, Kathryn Savage, Kelly Cherry, Lauren Becker, Leesa Cross-Smith, Lindsey Drager, Lisa Marie Basile, Maureen Seaton, Michael Garriga, Michael Martone, Misty Shipman Ellingburg, Naomi Telushkin, Randall Brown, Roland Leach, Ron Carlson, Ron Riekki, Rusty Barnes, Seth Brady Tucker, Stefanie Freele, Stephen Orloske, Stuart Dybek, Valerie Vogrin, William Todd Seabrook, Yennie Cheung, Zack Bean
About the Author ROBERT OLEN BUTLER is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of numerous novels and short story collections. He has twice won a National Magazine Award in Fiction and has received two Pushcart Prizes. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. A Fine Playlist By Jane Perill I've been excited by very short fiction--small fictions as the editors of this wonderful collection call them--since reading Tara Masih's Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction. I actually pulled out my copy to reread Robert Olen Butler's instructive essay. The stories Butler has chosen, the smallest being an incredible 27 words, do not disappoint. They vary in subject, length, style, tone, and form and yet move together like a fine playlist of music. I didn't dance to all of them, but I was moved by most. A few, notably "Dead Gary," "Last Exit Before the Toll," "Word Cross," and "Shaping Air," will haunt me. An added bonus to being introduced to fine writers at the top of their game is learning about vibrant presses--online and print--that are doing the hard work of getting the work seen in the first place.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Writing that lives beyond the page By Teresa When I heard writer Moira Crone speak not long ago, in response to a question, she talked of how a novel is a journey, but a short story is about a moment. I'd started this book at the time, so I silently wondered if that meant "small fictions" are about less than a moment. My own belief (and I'm sure I stole it from somewhere) is that the best of (long) short stories live beyond the page, and that's even truer of shorter fiction.Not only have series editor Tara L. Masih, guest editor Robert Olen Butler and their staff done fans of small fictions a great service, rounding up the best of the past year so we don't have to hunt for them in the various journals they originally appeared in, but this inaugural volume will also be a great introduction for the curious.No one person will like every single story and that's a tribute to how varied this collection is. Flash fiction sometimes frustrates me: I don't always 'get' it; but that's also true of my relationship with poetry, and in many ways a small-fiction writer is a poet, the writer having to do so much more with less. I guarantee you there will be surprises: I inwardly groaned at the title of "Pistols at Twenty Paces: On the Last Recorded Duel in Hancock County, Mississippi, April 23, 1866", but this piece by Michael Garriga is probably my favorite -- a lesson to not only not judge a piece by its title, but probably not even to judge a short by its label.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Excellent introduction to "small" fictions By Susan Drees Other than occasional stories, this is the first collection of flash or small fiction I have read. And this has been an interesting, exciting, and, in some ways, educational experience. I'm learning that, as in so many other things in life, I have much more to learn about this story form, but I will not let that inhibit my enthusiastic review of this book.When I began reading, I had decided to use post it markers to mark those stories I enjoyed. Well, that didn't work as I quickly realized that I would run through my supply of markers. So I broke my book commandment and wrote in the book. Gasp! I am doing that more lately and feel the eyes of my early teachers scowling at me. But at the same time I believe they would be happy I am so invested in reading as an adult.I found that I enjoyed probably 3/4 of the stories in this book to one degree or another. Some I loved: The Garden Sky stands out in my mind and I will read that many more times. And Pistols at Twenty Paces, that took me back to another place and then left me thinking.What has amazed me is how much can be said so quickly, so economically. I also found that there were a couple of stories that I found difficult and actually off-putting but also had to respect for the skill of their presentation.My primary take away from the world of small fictions is that there will be much disagreement about what is good and what is skilled. These all show skill but they all grab people differently. And they have to grab quickly. How they do it will determine who will enjoy the story. So this is an odd form. I invite everyone I know to give it a try. I believe you will laugh, cry, shudder, become angry or possibly disgusted. All good appropriate human emotions. Honestly earned by these stories. I don't know which will be your favorites, though I'd love to compare notes.I fully intend to check out other works from several of the authors included. There are 55 fictions included, of which I liked 43 to some degree or other. Not bad. Perhaps I am under-rating this book; perhaps a 4.5 is in order. This is where ratings are so difficult.I heartily recommend this collection and also Butler's recommendation to read the stories a few at a time. That seemed to work well for me.I was provided with an ARC through the editor in return for an honest review.
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