http://savetheshortstory.org Tue, 13 May 2008 03:53:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What a great idea - Sniplets.com  is the short story's answer to itunes. They're basically audio short stories you can purchase and download. I like to listen to audiobooks in my car, but sometimes it will be a week before I take another drive long enough to get back into ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/05/12/sniplits-anyone/ The Million Writers Award is a $300 prize sponsored by the Edit Red Writing Community given to a short story published online. They recently published the list of 2007 notable stories, and a top ten list will be published at the end of May. When that list is published, the public ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/05/08/million-writers-award-for-fiction/ Someone commented yesterday that a verbose explanation for writing that doesn't work seems unnecessary. I admit that my one criticism of the MFA classes I took was that there were professors who pored over and discussed stories to death. Stories that were pretty much unsalvagable. I don't think that it does ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/05/02/in-defense-of-feedback/ Penguin UK launched a digital writing project that married reality games to short story writing. The site is called We Tell Stories and the ambition is to create new forms of the story for the internet age. I browsed through the site and it's interesting, but I don't know about its ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/04/27/the-new-choose-your-own-adventures/ Whenever I read the slush for One Story, I usually don't make comments or suggestions. My reasoning is that in the time I could spend to write up one helpful letter to one author, I could have handled twelve slush responses. Therefore, I send out the ubiquitous form rejection letter ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/04/22/our-stories-may-save-your-short-stories/ All of us who read the slush at One Story do so in the hopes of finding that new, unique voice. Sometimes it's just the luck of the draw. When I first started as a reader, I found Patrick Somerville's story, Trouble and the Shadowy Deathblow. A few years later, ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/04/17/first-fiction/ Jhumpa Lahiri talks with The Star, Toronto's newspaper, about the short story. "In the wider world, there is a terrible hierarchy that people have between stories and novels. There is a sense that bigger is better and smaller is a diminutive, lesser thing. It's maddening to me because I don't understand ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/04/15/the-most-remarkable-works-of-fiction/ This year at AWP, several of my friends urged me to check out Subtropics, the lit. mag. published out of the University of Florida. I remembered reading and liking one of their stories, "Gringos," by Ariel Dorfman, in the O. Henry Prize Stories 2007, so I picked up the latest ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/04/08/subtropics-on-my-mind/ While I was a graduate student at NYU, one of our assignments was to present a short story of our choosing to the fiction seminar class and lead a discussion on the story's structure. It was kind of the equivalent of a dress-making class, where the teacher asks you to ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/04/06/another-jhumpa-collection/ I came across this interview with a Nepali author named Ramesh Vikal. It's cute because he starts the interview by talking about this book he's translating from the English language, an interesting science fiction novel written by a 19-year-old girl named Mary Shelley. At no time during the interview does ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2008/03/30/the-short-story-it-is-in-crisis/