num_pages: 288
description: An addictive new collection of very short stories curated by Flash Fiction editor James Thomas and microfiction writer Robert Scotellaro. Comprised of 300 words or fewer microfiction is difficult to write but delightful and absorbing to read. With a foreword from Robert Shapard coeditor of the Norton flash and sudden fiction anthologies an afterword by Christopher Merrill coeditor of Flash Fiction International an introduction from its venerable editors and a star-studded table of contents New Micro is a veritable whos who of the increasingly popular world of microfiction. Authors include newcomers and established writers alike: Amy Hempel John Edgar Wideman Kim Addonizio Richard Brautigan Bonnie Jo Campbell Stuart Dybek Joyce Carol Oates and James Tate among them. With 90 authors and 140 stories New Micro offers a unique reading experience a chorus of voices both fresh and familiar real and surreal but always enlighteningdistinctive and exceptional pieces of fiction that pulse and resonate each with its own story to tell.
language: English
title: New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction
publisher: WW Norton & Company (August 7, 2018)