Short Notices

Why, hello there.

We hope you all have been enjoying the regular blog posts and are routinely stopping to admire our lovely Web editors, Stacy and Dina, as much as we do. We’re starting something new around here called “Short Notices.” We want to let you in to the office. Metaphorically, obviously. We can’t have you traipsing around our palatial, perfectly organized set of corner offices. You wouldn’t actually fit.

So look out for incoming posts hinting at the exotic inner workings of American Short Fiction, including but not limited to: updates on where we are with issues; what’s in those issues; recommendations on submitting, writing, being, and living from our staff and our friends; things we like, dislike, and feel indifferent towards; giveaways (yes!); tips, timelines, statistics, and more secret things that will make you giddy with all your new lit mag knowledge.

We’ll get you started with a little teaser. Yes, an amuse-bouche.

Today is Tuesday. We are in the office, drinking coffee (black), with the windows open because it is absolutely gorgeous in Austin in October.

We’re working on getting the Winter issue prepped to send to the printer next week and we’re so thrilled about the five pieces in it. There are magicians and possibly severed heads. There are tigers and fish and turtle shells. There’s a drought in Los Angeles. It could be the best issue ever and you should probably begin preparing for it now. Soon we’ll let you in on some first sentences, some author name anagrams.

ALSO! The Texas Book Festival is coming up, Halloween weekend, and we can’t wait for it. We’ll have a booth and we’ll be there all day Saturday and Sunday alongside our Badgerdog cohorts. Our wonderful editor Jill Meyers is moderating a panel on Obsessive Protagonists and hoards of ASF friends and heroes will be reading and talking and wandering around. Come see us if you’re in Austin and fly down if you’re not.

We’re excited about all these things. Are you excited about all these things? Are there other specific things you’d like to hear about? Let us know.