num_pages: 164
description: The Best Small Fictions 2017 offers readers 55 exceptional small fictions by 53 authors. This acclaimed new annual series hailed as a milestone for the short story continues to honor contemporary masters and emerging writers of short-short and hybrid forms from across the globe. Guest editor Amy Hempel chose the winners from a pool of 105 finalists: They conjure and seduce they startle and haunt they are funny and searing short and shorter. The 2017 volume includes Pamela Painter Brian Doyle Ian Seed Frankie McMillan Karen Brennan Stuart Dybek and W. Todd Kaneko and spotlights Joy Williams and SmokeLong Quarterly.Featuring Small Fictions by: Nick Admussen  Nick Almeida  Lydia Armstrong  Matthew Baker  Amy Sayre Baptista  Karen Brennan  Larry Brown  Randall Brown  Erin Calabria  Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello  Carrie Cooperider  Emily Corwin  Christopher DeWan  Brian Doyle  Stuart Dybek  Kathy Fish  Sherrie Flick  Scott Garson  Jesse Goolsby  Michael Hammerle  Hannah Harlow  Allegra Hyde  W. Todd Kaneko  Joy Katz  Jen Knox  Len Kuntz  Tara Laskowski  Oscar Mancinas  Ras Mashramani  Frankie McMillan  Heather McQuillan  Cole Meyer  Eugenie Montague  Pamela Painter  Alvin Park  Kimberly King Parsons  Gen Del Raye  Mona Leigh Rose  Naamen Gobert Tilahun  Cameron Quincy Todd  Matt Sailor  Rebecca Schiff  Robert Scotellaro  Ian Seed  Alex Simand  Julia Slavin  Michael C. Smith  Phillip Sterling  Anne Valente  Harriot West  Joy Williams  Keith Woodruff  William Woolfitt
language: English
title: The Best Small Fictions 2017
publisher: Braddock Avenue Books