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ASF Celebrates Black Writers

by ASF Editors | February 25, 2020

ASF Celebrates Black Writers

As Black History Month 2020 nears an end, we asked members of our staff compile a list of their favorite short fiction by Black writers. For this list, our scope was broad. After all, while Black History Month has its roots in American history, it's not an exclusively American endeavor. Canada celebrates along with us during February, but in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Netherlands, Black History Month is aligned with the start of the school year in October. So, rather than give our … [Read more...] about ASF Celebrates Black Writers

Filed Under: NOTEBOOK Tagged With: Aaron Teel, Adam Soto, Adeena Reitberger, Alexander Lumans, Amanda Farone, Anabel Graff, Ashley Whitaker, Black History Month, Bryan Washington, Charles W. Chestnutt, Chester Himes, Danielle Evans, Edward P. Jones, Giuseppe Taurino, Helen Oyeyemi, Jamaica Kincaid, Jamel Brinkley, James Alan McPherson, James Baldwin, John Edgar Wideman, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Marta Evans, Maurice Chammah, Melinda Moustakis, Michelle Raji, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Nate Brown, Patricia Ruiz-Rivera, Percival Everett, Peter Kispert, Philip Baker, Rebecca Markovits, Reginald McKnight, short fiction, Siân Griffiths, Stacey Swann, Stephanie Macias Gibson, Tia Clark, Toni Morrison, Uriel Perez, Venita Blackburn, Victor LaValle, Zadie Smith, ZZ Packer

Bourbon and Milk: “Oh, My Dear. Where Is That Country?”

by Giuseppe Taurino | January 18, 2017

Bourbon and Milk: “Oh, My Dear. Where Is That Country?”

Bourbon and Milk is an ongoing series that dives into the perplexing spaces parenting sometimes pushes us, and explores the unexpected ways writers may grow in them. If you’re interested in joining the conversation or contributing a Bourbon and Milk post, query Giuseppe Taurino at: giuseppe [at] americanshortfiction.org.  — The world, like the Tower of Babel… [is] made out of stories, and it [is] always on the verge of collapse. That [is] proverbial.”                                         … [Read more...] about Bourbon and Milk: “Oh, My Dear. Where Is That Country?”

Filed Under: BOURBON AND MILK, NOTEBOOK Tagged With: 2016 Presidential Election, alyssa knickerbocker, bourbon and milk, Casey Fleming, Doom, Giuseppe Taurino, Greg Brown, Inauguration, Joshua Furst, Joshua Rivkin, Lacy M. Johnson, Manuel Gonzales, Miah Arnold, parenting, writing

Bourbon and Milk: Slow but Steady-ish

by Peter Turchi | July 7, 2016

Bourbon and Milk: Slow but Steady-ish

Bourbon and Milk is an ongoing series that dives into the perplexing spaces parenting sometimes pushes us, and explores the unexpected ways writers may grow in them. If you’re interested in joining the conversation or contributing a Bourbon and Milk post, query Giuseppe Taurino at: giuseppe [at] americanshortfiction.org. — I confess, I get a little impatient when I hear graduate students with teaching assistantships—that is, students who not only aren’t paying tuition but who are being … [Read more...] about Bourbon and Milk: Slow but Steady-ish

Filed Under: BOURBON AND MILK, NOTEBOOK Tagged With: Alan Shapiro, Antonya Nelson, bourbon and milk, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Giuseppe Taurino, Heather McHugh, Kevin McIlvoy, Maurice Manning, parenting, Robert Boswell, Rodney Jones, Stephen Dobyns, Tony Hoagland, Trollope, Van Jordan, writing

Bourbon & Milk – Thankless Chasms, Unlearnable Lyrics, and the Warmth of Home

by Giuseppe Taurino | December 18, 2013

Bourbon & Milk – Thankless Chasms, Unlearnable Lyrics, and the Warmth of Home

Bourbon and Milk features lessons, observations, and conversations by and with writers living out there in one of the most perplexing outposts of the human condition – parenthood. In this monthly series, Contributing Editor Giuseppe Taurino dives into the dark spaces parenting sometimes pushes us, and explores the unexpected ways writers may grow in them. If you’re interested in joining the conversation or contributing a Bourbon and Milk post, query Giuseppe at … [Read more...] about Bourbon & Milk – Thankless Chasms, Unlearnable Lyrics, and the Warmth of Home

Filed Under: BOURBON AND MILK, NOTEBOOK Tagged With: Alexi Zentner, Eugene Cross, Giuseppe Taurino, Jennine Capó Crucet, Laura van den Berg, Manuel Gonzales, Miah Arnold, Ru Freeman, Shann Ray, Sophie Rosenblum, Xhenet Aliu

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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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