Sentences with phrase «fiction as a short story»

We define flash fiction as a short story told in fewer than 1,000 words.

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Anne Tyler is listed as a member in category IV: 4, described as «Literature (Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories, Nonfiction, Playwriting, Screenwriting).»
There is a short science fiction story — the title escapes me — where time - traveling tourists hop back to watch catastrophes as they occur.
To one accustomed to thinking of the Bible as historical throughout, it may be a surprise to discover that it contains also short stories — some of the finest fiction ever written.
As the title implies, this collection concentrates on writings about AIDS, but it strays far, from Paula Treichler's exemplary analysis of US network television dramatisation of AIDS, to Richard Dellamora's reading of an Edmund White short story and Sander Gilman's survey of 20th - century German fiction about contagion, real and imagined.
She writes science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories for adults and children, and is known as a prominent voice for the asexual community.
Though it heavily reworks Bissell's story, the film feels as beautifully calibrated as a great piece of short fiction, only with visual accents and emphases filling in for the prose.
I have also published a few single short stories as ebooks, as listed below, and my work has been included in many anthologies (see Flash Fiction page for more details).
Fast forward a bit and those of us who wrote long fiction started looking at our royalty reports and realized that we were making the exact same amount per borrow for a five thousand word short story as we were for a hundred thousand word novel.
Author, journalist and blogger, she's especially keen on short - form writing, such as flash fiction, short stories and blog posts.
Speaking of hearts, there's one last reward of reviewing that I'd like to mention: that as an author myself, I know how heartwarming it is to receive an enthusiastic review for my own work, and the arrival of not one but two glowing reviews for my latest book, the collection of very short stories (aka flash fiction) has made my week already — and it's still only Tuesday.
Plympton is different from Byliner — which Love cites as its biggest competition — in that while Plympton focuses exclusively on serial fiction, Byliner's fiction is usually closer in length to that of a short story.
Having a butterfly mind is part and parcel of being a short - form writer, as I am, churning out short stories, flash fiction, blog posts and journalism, never dwelling on any one project for long.
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link Kelly Link's second short story collection is aptly titled Magic for Beginners, for the short fiction she presents here is truly magical, with masterfully crafted stories that are as dark as they are delightful.
Kelly Link's second short story collection is aptly titled Magic for Beginners, for the short fiction she presents here is truly magical, with masterfully crafted stories that are as dark as they are delightful.
If you need convincing that Mantel is as able a short - story writer as she is a novelist, there are a few samples of her short fiction online:
Authors interested in critiques of shorter works, such as stories, essays, and flash fiction, should contact the Tucson office.
As I had just published a book of poetry, another book of essays and short stories, and a third that was urban fiction, I knew I was in trouble on this front.
Simon Goodson is the author of the massively popular and highly rated Wanderer's Odyssey science fiction series, as well as the Dark Soul Silenced books and many short stories.
Live: Fiction is a stream of short stories and novellas (published as ebooks) that are inspired by current events.
Therefore, here's a writing prompt for you; do as you wish — short story, flash fiction, poem, what have you.
That's the same as with any short story submission, certainly, but with one of these, the bar is sometimes a bit higher than «normal» fiction.
Winner of the O. Henry Prize, her fiction has been included in The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, as well as other anthologies.
At a low point in my writing career, just as I was thinking about giving up, I received the good news that one of my stories had been selected for the annual Pushcart Prize anthology of the best short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry of the previous year.
For novelists, free short stories and novella are effective, as they easily attract fiction fans.
Popular author and short - story writer Ozick makes a strong and witty claim that critics need new fiction just as much as novelists need great critics in order to build a healthy literary community.
«Based on the continued success of short fiction on Kindle as well as the enthusiastic response to Day One — we received thousands of subscriptions in the first week — we know readers are hungry for short stories and excited about exploring new genres,» said Daphne Durham, Publisher of Adult Trade and Children's Group.
John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.
Amazon has a number of exclusive offerings such as their fan - fiction via Kindle Words, short stories with Kindle Singles and they also have the largest self - publishing system with Kindle Direct Publishing.
A few months ago, I published a series of short - short stories (also known as «Flash Fiction») based on pictures that I'd taken.
It is supported by its own library touted as the «YouTube» of eBooks where both amateur and professional writers can share content by uploading their published and unpublished works for readers to download, and there are tons of fiction short stories, fantasies, science fiction, romance, etc., that you won't find in Kindle or Nook sites.
Bundles of short stories sell well in various fiction genres, as well as in sub-genres of major categories like romance.
Susan Kaye Quinn is the author of the Singularity Series, the bestselling Mindjack Trilogy, and the Debt Collector serial, as well as other speculative fiction novels and short stories.
The force of Ebooks IS with me as I aggregate my collection of over 100 short stories and flash fiction pieces from my 4 - year - old e-mail subscription short fiction Web site http://www.LongShortStories.com into my first of several ebooks.
Even so, while I don't remember a time when I didn't write — poems and stories as a child, a few semi-serious short fiction efforts in high school as part of an honors English course — it never occurred to me that I might follow in my mother's footsteps.
Check out Fabula Argentea, which regularly features both traditional short stories as well as flash fiction.
I'm also an indie author myself, having published the science fiction thriller Luck and Death at the Edge of the World as well as novellas and short stories.
As we move through the class, you're not only writing your own short stories, you're also discovering the Kindle short fiction BLUEPRINT... What to publish, and when, so that your Amazon income steadily increases.
We edit all genres of fiction and nonfiction, such as short stories, novels, memoir, and academic work.
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Such writing can include traditional or mainstream short - short stories as well as various other types such as American haibun, ghost stories, monologues, epistles, mysteries, myths, tall tales, fables, anti-fables, parables, romance, fairy tales, horror, suspense, science fiction, prose poetry, and more.
The potential for a renewed interest in short stories — stand - alone fiction that will no longer have to wait to be anthologized or published as a collection — as well as timely pieces of non-fiction on current world events means that readers without the time or inclination to tackle longer pieces of literature can now fill their reading needs with shorter and less pricey ebooks.
- Booklist «Celebrated short story writer Beattie... juxtaposes a master class on writing fiction with fiction itself... it is obvious how much fun Beattie is having with this project - an ideal book for readers who want to understand process as much as product.»
His short stories have appeared in Tin House, the Southern Review, the Kenyon Review, and Esquire.com, and have been widely anthologized, in such volumes as Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge (HarperCollins), Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader (Bloomsbury), and Best New American Voices 2005 (Harcourt).
I published a flash fiction collection called New Skin in January, and I republished my contribution to Holly Lisle's Adventure of Creation anthology, Finding Light, as a stand alone short story just a few days ago.
She is best known as an author of science fiction and fantasy short stories who writes and teaches about how fantastic fiction might reflect real - world diversity of gender, sexual orientation, race, colonialism, physical ability, age, and other sociocultural factors.
Since his first published short story won the Rod Serling Memorial Award in the 1982 Twilight Zone Magazine Short Fiction contest, Dan Simmons has won some of the top awards in science fiction, horror, fantasy, and thriller genres, as well as honors for his mainstream ficshort story won the Rod Serling Memorial Award in the 1982 Twilight Zone Magazine Short Fiction contest, Dan Simmons has won some of the top awards in science fiction, horror, fantasy, and thriller genres, as well as honors for his mainstream ficShort Fiction contest, Dan Simmons has won some of the top awards in science fiction, horror, fantasy, and thriller genres, as well as honors for his mainstream fFiction contest, Dan Simmons has won some of the top awards in science fiction, horror, fantasy, and thriller genres, as well as honors for his mainstream ffiction, horror, fantasy, and thriller genres, as well as honors for his mainstream fictionfiction.
His fiction has appeared in Esquire, The Paris Review, Harper's, Tin House, Granta, and Playboy, as well as The Best American Short Stories.
Wagner's own website is a catalog of his writing style, including sample flash fiction stories that are open to readers, as well as a purchasable works from short story anthologies and longer titles.
I don't tend to think of myself as a fan of short fiction, so when a friend recently pressed The Persephone Book of Short Stories on me, I was, to say the least, dubshort fiction, so when a friend recently pressed The Persephone Book of Short Stories on me, I was, to say the least, dubShort Stories on me, I was, to say the least, dubious.
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