Gwen E. Kirby’s “How to Retile Your Bathroom in 6 Easy Steps!” utilizes the conventions of an instructional manual to uniquely represent the interiority of a woman experiencing disruption and loss.
“I often describe the role of editor as similar to that of midwife—we’re helping something come into the world, but it will not be our baby.”
Congratulations to these four pieces we chose to nominate for the Best Small Fictions anthology, which seeks “flash and micro fiction, haibun stories and prose poems published in 2019”:
Nancy Chen Long’s poem “Reverberation” fights back against silence and erasure. The poem’s title points toward the resonance of sound, and this is exactly what Chen Long’s words do: even in stillness the music of her language ripples across the page.
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In the opening lines of Samyak Shertok’s “Operation Rhododendron,” everyday objects transform into makeshift weapons for role-playing scenes of war.
Check out our nominations for the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best Microfiction!
Spider Love Song and Other Stories by Nancy Au is a short-story collection about stories—how narratives can be used to construct and deconstruct lived realities.
I was first drawn to Taneum Bambrick’s full-length debut Vantage (Copper Canyon, 2019) because it had “an ecological eye,” but after reading the collection, I realize how much of a disservice it is to characterize this book solely as environmentally urgent.
My family feared white people. White people, after all, danced on our newly paved driveway, leaving gym-shoe footprints. White people threw rocks and rotten eggs at our windows. White people stole my family’s first big purchase, a ’72 Thunderbird that was found two months later—stripped—in a steakhouse parking lot off Cicero Avenue. White people were …
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