num_pages: 160
description: It takes many small things to make something big. Fifty-five acclaimed and emerging writersincluding Emma Bolden Ron Carlson Kelly Cherry Stuart Dybek Blake Kimzey Roland Leach Bobbie Ann Mason Diane Williams and Hiromi Kawakamihave made the debut of The Best Small Fictions 2015 something significant something worthwhile and something necessary. Featuring spotlights on Pleiades journal and Michael Martone this international volumewith Pulitzer Prizewinning author Robert Olen Butler serving as guest editor and award-winning editor Tara L. Masih as series editoris a celebration of the diversity and quality captured in fiction forms fewer than 1000 words. .................................................Whatever one calls themflash fictions microfictions short shortsthe number of outlets where such pieces are published continue to grow along with the interest of readers and writers in the form. The time is right for a Best of the Year anthology.Stuart Dybek author of The Coast of Chicago and Ecstatic CahootsThese small fictions are small only in length not in impact. Their minuteness provides a different lens upon lifeone that illuminates the telling yet elusive moments that bigger stories often overlook. A different slant on the truth emerges not in spite of their length but because of it. Short shorts often seem like the quiet stepchild in the fiction familyovershadowed by vociferous novels not quite dressed in the right attire as conventional short stories. A series celebrating these tiny gems is long overdue.Grant Faulkner cofounder of 100 Word Story author of FissuresThe loud and long message of the seemingly quiet and the definitely short is in ample supply in The Best Small Fictions 2015. From a mothers fury over misspelled words in Dee Cohens By Heart to a fathers disintegration in David Mellerick Lynchs Lunar Deep there is pathos depth and welcome language-fireworks in these small gems. Chekhov would be proud of how briefly these writers manage to speak on lengthy subjects.Nuala N Chonchir author of Miss EmilyThe Best Small Fictions 2015 is essential reading for anyone who enjoys not just small fiction but fiction in general. Don't miss it!Robert Swartwood editor of Hint Fiction:An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer
language: English
title: The Best Small Fictions 2015
publisher: Queen's Ferry Press