About this item
Highlights
- The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer.
- Author(s): Meg Pokrass & Gary Fincke
- 208 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Anthologies (multiple authors)
- Series Name: Best Microfiction
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About the Book
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by Meg Pokrass, and Gary Fincke, the anthology features Tania Hershman serving as final judge.
Book Synopsis
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology features Tania Hershman serving as final judge, and eighty of the world's best very short short stories.
Review Quotes
"This collection of micro-stories teems with energy and talent. To pick this up and read it is to feel the pulse of our world: the heartbreak, the strangeness, the vast variety of voices and desires, the coming of the future. This is exactly what I want to read."
- Deb Olin Unferth, author of Barn 8
"I look forward to each year's Best Microfiction because it promises a view of life through a miniature, fractured lens. I'm enlivened by the odd shapes of these stories and the odd stories those shapes invite in, as if shopping in a Borgesian flea market. I'm reminded how the small, the quiet, tend to have the most interesting things to say."
- Grant Faulkner, executive director of National Novel Writing Month
"Reading these tiny, bright micro-fictions, I can't help thinking of the scattered, chaotic molecules of coal, buried deep in black earth, compressed into diamonds, an effortless-seeming mine craft, like there's nothing to it at all. Impossible not to marvel at these micro-fictions, such tiny bright suns as these."
- Lex Williford, author of Superman on the Roof
"A terrific collection of ultra-short stories--complex, thrilling, sometimes just crazy-nutball, in the best possible way! Huzzah!"
- Frederick Barthelme
These are small, arresting stories that cut right to the heart of the matter, demonstrating that a story well told, no matter how small, expands beyond the space it inhabits.
- Robert Scotellaro, Co-Editor, "New Micro" (W.W. Norton & Co., 2018)