Join us for an evening discussion on writing and publishing short stories. Our moderator will lead an expert panel in a conversation about the craft of writing shorter fiction.
In addition to reflecting on the writing process, the panelists will address issues related to the publishing aspects of writing, such as contacting agents and working with publishing houses. Each panelist comes to 826 with a unique experience and approach to the craft of short stories, and their combined expertise should prove an invaluable resource for aspiring and seasoned writers alike. No details will be spared, all pertinent secrets will be revealed.
About the moderator:
Eli Horowitz is the publisher at McSweeney's. Over the past five years, he has edited books and stories by writers including Dave Eggers, William Vollmann, Nick Hornby, Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates, Chris Adrian, and Salvador Plascencia. Horowitz's design work has been honored by I.D., Print and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Before McSweeney's, he was employed as a carpenter and wrote science trivia questions tenuously linked to popular films. He was born in Virginia and now lives in San Francisco.
About the panelists:
Ann Cummins is the author of short story collection Red Ant House and novel Yellowcake. Growing up in a family that mined silver, coal and uranium since they migrated from Ireland to Colorado in the early 20th century, Cummins' work often touches on working class people. She graduated from the writing programs of John Hopkins University and the University of Arizona. Her stories have been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney's and The Best American Short Stories, 2002. She also received the Lannan fellowship in 2002 and lives in both Oakland, California with her husband and Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University.
Nona Caspers' book of stories Heavier Than Air (now in paperback, University of
Massachusetts Press) received the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction
and was an Editors' Choice in the New York Times Book Review. She's
published short fiction, a genre she loves, for years in anthologies
and journals, supported by a Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Grant and
Award, Iowa Fiction Award, Barbara Demming Grant and Award, among
others. She's currently working under an NEA fellowship on a series
of short-shorts "The Alley Stories" set in San Francisco. Her "A
Little Book of Days", set in the Mission District, is forthcoming with
Spuyten Duyvil Press, NY. She teaches creative writing at San
Francisco State University. http://www.nonacaspers.com/
Eric Puchner is the winner of the Pushcart Prize and Joseph Henry Jackson Award for his short story collection published in 2007, Music Through the Floor. He was the Wallace Stegner and John L'Heureux Fellow at Stanford University where he currently teaches. His short stories have been published in Zoetrope: All Story, the Chicago Tribune, The Sun, The Missouri Review and Best New American Voices, 2005. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, novelist Katharine Noel.
Judy Budnitz has been published in such literary magazines as The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, and McSweeney's. Most recently, she penned the story collection, Nice Big American Baby, which cuts open topics such as family and culture through creeping fantasy and mind-bending humor. She has also written Flying Leap, which was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998 and the novel, If I told You Once that won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. She lives in San Francisco.
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Writing and Publishing the Short Story
June 26, 2008
$100
