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The winners of the American Short(er) Fiction Prize are Jen Percy, with first place, for "Field Trip," and Hillery Hugg, with second, for "The Tomb." Congratulations! We'll be posting more details about these great pieces shortly.
Thanks to all who entered our our Short Story Contest! We're very happy to announce the winners of the contest, judged by Rick Moody. Dawn Ryan wins first place ($1,000 and publication) with her story "My Sister's Babies," which Moody calls "brutal, strange, funny, unpredictable, and new." Her winning story will be published in our next issue, Summer 2010. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan's "Blue Talk and Love"—"its voice . . . lyrical, nearly Faulkernian"—garners second place ($500). Congratulations, Dawn and Mecca!
In January 2010, ASF received a matching grant from the NEA. These funds will go to support production costs--including funding important things like contributors' payments.
Two stories from the magazine are in The Best American Short Stories 2009, out now. The stories receiving this honor are "The Peripatetic Coffin" by Ethan Rutherford and "NowTrends" by Karl Taro Greenfeld. Congratulations, Ethan and Karl! We have recently switched to online submissions. Please check out our submission guidelines and submit your story online via our Submission Manager. |
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- Establishing Residency
Don’t buy into the myth of the lonely writer trapped in an attic struggling to communicate? Like to collaborate? Check out this residency. *** “The Collaborative Retreat at the Cabin at Shotpouch Creek recognizes that writers are part of a dynamic system of writers, readers and wider communities.” It offers two-week residencies to two poets, [...]
- Contemporary American Fiction
I’ve been thinking a lot about Contemporary American Fiction (CAF, if you will) this week. We’ve had these circular discussions going at the bookstore about, you know, overrated writers and underrated writers (ahem); everybody’s been making their own lists so that everyone else can refute them flatly, and loudly. And there’s of course talk about [...]
- Here and There: What We Are Not Reading This Summer
There are a few things I didn’t get around to this summer, reading wise. Erm, make that a lot. OK, fine. There are, approximately, a whole ton of books (and magazines and journals…oh, the journals) that, despite my best intentions—and admittedly unrealistic ambitions—I did no more than glance at this summer. Books I couldn’t (and [...]
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Buried treasure. Tar and feathering. Fiery revivals. Yellow oblong stones that emit light and visions. The violent face-off of a father and his daughter's suitor. . . and all of that in our first story. You could say our Summer 2010 issue is action-packed. Get it here.
