Congratulations to Ammi Keller, whose story, "Isaac Cameron Hill," will be anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2015, edited by Adam Johnson! The story originally appeared in ASF Issue 58. … [Read more...] about Best American
Baltimore Authors Respond to the Death of Freddie Gray: A Reading and Community Conversation
Join ASF and the University of Baltimore on May 13th for a reading and conversation with Baltimore writers who've recently confronted the death of Freddie Gray. Authors Jane Delury, Michael Downs, Derick Ebert, Kenneth Morrison, Lia Purpura, Deborah Rudacille, Khaliah Williams & others will read at 8 PM at UB's Merrick School of Business. … [Read more...] about Baltimore Authors Respond to the Death of Freddie Gray: A Reading and Community Conversation
American Short(er) Fiction Contest: Winners Announced!
We are pleased to announce the winners for the 2015 American Short(er) Fiction Prize, judged by Stuart Dybek. Thank you to everyone who submitted. We were overwhelmed by the breadth and quality of the stories, and, reading them, were thrilled again and again by the versatility and potential of the flash fiction form. The winning stories will be published in the magazine's fall issue. The first prize went to Jennifer Murvin, for her story "Emporium," a subtle rumination on a father's purchase … [Read more...] about American Short(er) Fiction Contest: Winners Announced!
Come and Take It: Texas Lit Party at AWP
Kick off your AWP with Texas’s finest indie presses and lit mags. Come have a drink on us at Liquor Lyle's on Wednesday April 8th from 7 PM until the whiskey runs dry. With your hosts: American Short Fiction, The Austin Review, Bat City Review, Foxing, Gulf Coast, Litragger, NANO Fiction, and A Strange Object. … [Read more...] about Come and Take It: Texas Lit Party at AWP
Best of the Net
Congratulations to Sarah Gerkensmeyer, whose story, "Ramona," was selected by Sundress Publications for the 2014 Best of the Net Anthology! "Ramona" was published on our website as April's web exclusive. … [Read more...] about Best of the Net
Review: Elizabeth McCracken’s Thunderstruck and Other Stories
If, as George Saunders would have it, fiction is more interesting when death is in the room, then Thunderstruck and Other Stories, which won The Story Prize last week, is positively teeming with interest. Still, the various deaths and disappearances running through the nine meticulously crafted stories in Elizabeth McCracken’s moving and deeply cathartic collection could easily overwhelm if not for the charismatic force of her prose and darkly comic bedside manner. Where a lesser writer might … [Read more...] about Review: Elizabeth McCracken’s Thunderstruck and Other Stories