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The author of The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story offers a lesson in becoming a verbal junk collector.
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The author of The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story offers a lesson in becoming a verbal junk collector.
“I write when I want to say something to someone in particular—but can’t.” —Aurora Mattia author of The Fifth Wound
The author of The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story investigates the power of a single sentence, long or short.
“I literally was Damani throughout writing—somehow I became her.” —Priya Guns, author of Your Driver Is Waiting
The author of The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story explores what is gained by cutting elements of a narrative.
“You will never get rid of the self-critical voice in your head.” —Colin Winnette, author of Users
The author of The Art of Brevity: Crafting the Very Short Story ponders the seductive power of laconic prose.
A look at three new anthologies, including A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing From Soil to Stars and Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions.
This week’s installment of Ten Questions features José Olivarez and David Ruano González, the author and the translator of Promises of Gold / Promesas de oro.
“I think the hardest part was finding an ending, specifically working against my own desire for neat resolution.” —Maggie Millner, author of Couplets