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Kristen Arnett

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...] about MFA for All Spring 2025

Filed Under: NOTEBOOK, NOTEBOOK FEATURE Tagged With: Kristen Arnett, Matt Bell, MFA, MFA for All, ZZ Packer

Contest Closed: The Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize

by ASF Editors | June 1, 2022

Contest Closed: The Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize

We’re so pleased to announce that our judge for this year’s Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize will be the wonderful Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth: A Novel (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and the New York Times bestselling debut novel Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019). This year, we're again partnering with the Tasajillo Residency, an idyllic writing residency that neighbors the Halifax Ranch just outside of Austin in Kyle, Texas. In … [Read more...] about Contest Closed: The Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize

Filed Under: NEWS Tagged With: deadline extended, halifax ranch fiction prize, Kristen Arnett, Tasajillo Residency

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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.
 

Sign up now for Send Us to Perfect Places with Kristen Arnett! Classes are $150 and registration closes May 4, 2025.

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