http://savetheshortstory.org Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:46:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'll be at the One Story booth at The (Makers) Market at the OA Can Factory in Brooklyn this Sunday. I'm starting a new enterprise--we are offering mini-mentorships to short story writers. I've always wished that I had the time to offer personal rejection letters to our submitters. We get ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2010/03/08/the-editor-is-in-this-sunday-and-next-sunday/ There's this new trend in publishing that uses video trailers to launch books. We used to only see this kind of thing for James Patterson books on late night television, but those were just pictures of the book cover and that really creepy voice announcing the title. Recently, Jamieson Fry, a ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2010/02/25/116/ Here is my sister reading Bomb Jockey:  http://savetheshortstory.org/2010/02/23/color-coordinated-one-story-reader/ A few days after my friend Amanda and I introduced J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories to a friend of ours, he called us up and said, "I read the book you gave me and now I've been lying on the floor just staring at my ceiling fan for the past few hours." Very ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2010/02/04/remembering-jd-salingers-nine-stories/ The Story Prize has announced its three finalists this year:In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal MueenuddinDrift: Stories by Victoria PattersonEverything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories by Wells TowerThe finalists were selected from 78 story collections from 53 different publishers or imprints.The Story Prize is one of the largest prizes given for a collection ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2010/01/19/the-story-prize-2009-finalists/ According to The Guardian, 2009 was the year of the short story. I'm going to have to agree with them. After all, Oprah chose a short story collection for her book club for the very first time, Alice Munro won the Man Booker International, Elizabeth Strout's short story collection was ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2010/01/12/lets-declare-the-2010s-the-decade-of-the-short-story/ The start of a new year makes me think of the start of good things to come. I've been reading the most recent Pushcart Prize stories and I've been paying extra close attention to first lines--trying to come up with a perfect first line for the latest story I'm working ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/12/30/the-first-line/ This is the time of year many people are all out of gift ideas so I decided to compile a gift guide with suggestions for that special literary someone. I've always believed that a gift guide shouldn't have a TON of items. So this is just a small list of books ... http://savetheshortstory.org/2009/12/10/happy-holidays-the-short-story-gift-guide/ 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/