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Matt Bell

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

ISSUE 62

by ASF Editors | November 23, 2020

ISSUE 62

Porochista Khakpour, “Kingdoms” “Years after it happened, her rapist was trying to get in contact with her. In the same week her dog arrived. Lucy called the local Greyhound Rescue chapter months before. She had filled out an application promising that she would be able to walk it at least three times a day, that she would never let it off a leash, that she would feed it regularly, that she would return it immediately should she no longer be able to act as a capable owner. She had had a … [Read more...] about ISSUE 62

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Aaron Steven Miller, Issue 62, Kyle McCarthy, Leona Theis, Matt Bell, Porochista Khakpour, Smith Henderson, Summer 2016

Things American: Writers Remember James Salter

by Nate Brown | July 22, 2015

Things American: Writers Remember James Salter

American novelist, story writer, and screenwriter James Salter died on June 19th, leaving behind a body of work that presents a vision of a century in dramatic motion. He was a writer of the quotidian and a craftsman of the first water whose interest in sensory experiences is most evident in his arresting narrative passages. Food, drink, sex, the seemingly impossible beauty of things touched, witnessed, and heard—these are rendered in precise and yet often surprising terms in Salter's work. In … [Read more...] about Things American: Writers Remember James Salter

Filed Under: NOTEBOOK, THINGS AMERICAN Tagged With: Alan Cheuse, Alexander Maksik, Andrew Malan Milward, Brad Watson, Cara Blue Adams, David James Poissant, Edward Hirsch, Geoff Becker, George Pelecanos, James Salter, Jamie Quatro, Jennifer Haigh, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Lauren Groff, Lisa Page, Lydia Conklin, Matt Bell, Maud Casey, Michael Kimball, Nate Brown, Rob Roensch, Samar Farah Fitzgerald, Stuart Nadler, Timothy Denevi, Valerie Trueblood

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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.

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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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