http://savetheshortstory.org Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:33:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week I participated in a panel at Sarah Lawrence College discussing how to submit to magazines. My fellow panelist was an agent and she basically popped everyone's hope balloon by telling them over and over again that no one wants to publish short story collections. I know, I know, it's ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/07/01/4-debut-authors-short-listed-for-frank-oconnor-award/ Doesn't everyone love Alice Munro? Alice Munro was announced as the winner of the third Man Booker International Prize. The panel made this comment: "Alice Munro is mostly known as a short story writer and yet she brings as much depth, wisdom and precision to every short story as most novelists bring ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/05/27/alice-munro-wins-the-man-booker-international-prize/ Elizabeth Strout has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "Olive Kitteridge," a collection of 13 linked short stories. The stories are set in rural Maine and center around Olive Kitteridge, a seventh-grade teacher. Isn't it great that people are recognizing great story collections?  I haven't read it yet, but several of ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/04/20/elizabeth-strout-wins-the-pulitzer-prize-for-olive-kitteridge/ Recently, three new literary biographies about Flannery O' Connor, John Cheever, and Donald Barthelme have placed a new spotlight on the short story. A. O. Scott wrote a piece in the NY Times this past weekend about the new resurgence of the short story. He writes: Reading through their collected stories, ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/04/05/praising-the-american-short-story/ Anne Sanow won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for her short story collection Triple Time, which will be published in September. There were 300 works submitted. Ann Patchett, who works diligently to save the short story (and was kind enough to include two One Story stories when she edited the Best American ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/03/25/anne-sanow-wins-drue-heinz-literature-prize/ Who would have thought that almost a hundred years after his death, we would be able to read a new Mark Twain story?Apparently, "The Undertaker's Tale," was discovered in the Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens) archive. The story is going to be published in the quarterly mystery magazine the Strand. Supposedly, it's ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/03/13/a-new-mark-twain-story/ Last night Tobias Wolff won The Story Prize for his new collection of short stories, Our Story Begins. It's basically the equivalent of a Greatest Hits album. During his interview with Larry Dark, he mentioned that he didn't want this book to be a complete compilation since that might be a bit ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/03/05/tobias-wolff-is-the-winner-of-the-story-prize/ I first read "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" in Best American Short Stories and Karen Russell had one of the best new voices I had read in a long time. Today I came across an article about her and she said: "I really didn't think people would read the ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/03/02/karen-russell-writes-short-stories-for-pleasure/ I'll be at the One Story booth at the AWP conference. If you're going to be there, please stop by booths 324 & 325. It's going to be a lot of fun! We're also throwing a small party on Friday night, so please come by the booth to get the details.   http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/02/11/awp-chicago/ In the latest issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, there is a question and answer transcript of a conversation between four young literary agents. It's a pretty good article which goes into detail in a candid way about the type of work literary agents are looking to represent. There's a ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/02/03/jeff-kleinman-hates-short-stories/