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The Stars at Night 2025

by ASF Editors | March 25, 2025

The Stars at Night 2025

Join us for American Short Fiction’s grand party, The Stars at Night, on Friday, May 2, 2025, at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum in Austin. This year’s program will honor Joy Williams as the Literary Star for her extraordinary body of work, Carrie R. Moore as the Constellation Star for the story collection Make Your Way Home (Tin House, 2025),  Emily Hunt Kivel as the First Star for the debut novel Dwelling (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025), and Leila Green Little as the Community Star ... [READ MORE]

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The 2025 Halifax Prize Winners

by ASF Editors | April 15, 2025

The 2025 Halifax Prize Winners

We are thrilled to announce the winners of this year's Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize, judged by Daniel Mason. We consider it our privilege to have spent time with so many terrific submissions—thank you for giving us the opportunity to read your work. Congratulations to the winners! _____ First-Place Prize: "The Skilled Anatomist" by Colleen Rosenfeld Judge Daniel Mason writes, "'The Skilled Anatomist' takes a strange and beautiful conceit and runs with it, treading the uncanny space between ... [READ MORE]

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The Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize: Now Open

by ASF Editors | April 15, 2025

The Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize: Now Open

We’re so pleased to announce that our judge for this year’s Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize will be Eric Puchner, author of the 2025 New York Times bestselling novel Dream State as well as the novel Model Home, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and two story collections. Puchner lives in Baltimore, where he is the director of the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to publication and a $2,500 prize, we are excited to partner again with the Tasajillo Residency, an ... [READ MORE]

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MFA for All Spring 2025

by ASF Editors | January 16, 2025

MFA for All Spring 2025

MFA for ALL Registration is open for individual classes of MFA for All Spring 2025, with new faculty Matt Bell, Kristen Arnett, and ZZ Packer. Full-semester registration is closed. MFA for All was born from our desire to create a space where MFA-quality instruction is widely accessible to writers no matter their age, background, location, or financial situation. MFA for All is not a degree-granting program—it is a community-rich online educational experience led by top-notch faculty, free of ... [READ MORE]

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Deadline Extended: The 2025 American Short(er) Fiction Prize

by ASF Editors | November 12, 2024

Deadline Extended: The 2025 American Short(er) Fiction Prize

We are thrilled to announce that the brilliant Tony Tulathimutte—author of the 2024 National Book Award longlisted novel Rejection—will judge the 2025 American Short(er) Fiction Prize. The prize recognizes extraordinary short fiction under 1,500 words. The first-place winner will receive a $1,000 prize and publication. Previous winners of the Short(er) Fiction Prize have gone on to be anthologized in places such as The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. All entries will be considered for ... [READ MORE]

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The Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize 2024

by ASF Editors | April 9, 2024

The Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize 2024

We’re so pleased to announce that our judge for this year’s Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize will be Daniel Mason, author of The Piano Tuner, A Far Country, The Winter Soldier, A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, and most recently North Woods, a New York Times bestselling novel, a New York Times and Washington Post Top 10 Book of 2023, and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This year, we're again partnering with the Tasajillo Residency, an idyllic writing residency that ... [READ MORE]

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Issue 81

Guest-edited by Fernando A. Flores, featuring new stories by Yvette DeChavez, Julián Delgado Lopera, Carribean Fragoza, Alejandro Heredia, Carmen Maria Machado, Ruben Reyes Jr., and Gerardo Sámano Córdova.

You can preview the issue here.

NEWS

Read the winners of the 2024 Insider Prize

Read the winners of the 2024 Insider Prize

By ASF Editors

“Memories are a nuisance,” Peter wrote to one of our writers after reading his short story, “but nonetheless they seem to make us who we are, as this story confirms.” This year’s submissions told many stories burdened with memory, but just as many stared bravely into the face of hope, satirized the state of politics, speculated on the future of the world, or else built entirely new worlds to inhabit. In short, the stories written on the inside reflected the stories we wrote this year on the outside. Stories of human toil and dreams and everything in between.
 

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