Best Microfiction 2023

by Gary Fincke (Editor), Meg Pokrass (Editor)

Overview

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, this edition features Deb Olin Unferth serving as final judge, four essays & other insights, and eighty-three of the world's best very short short stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949790818
Publisher:	Pelekinesis
Publication date:	07/10/2023
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Gary Fincke, editor, has published thirty-one books of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, most recently, Bringing Back the Bones: New and Selected Poems (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2016), A Room of Rain: Stories, and The Killer's Dog: Stories (Elixir Press, 2017).

Meg Pokrass, series editor, is the author of 7 flash fiction collections, an award-winning collection of prose poetry, 2 flash-novellas and 2 new co-written collections of flash, Picking Up the Moose, co-written with Jeff Friedman (Pelekinesis, 2022) and Disappearing Debutantes, co-written with Aimee Parkison (Outpost 19, 2023). Her work has appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and international anthologies including Electric Literature, Wigleaf, Washington Square Review, American Journal of Poetry, McSweeney's has appeared in 2 Norton anthologies of the flash fiction form: New Micro (W.W. Norton & Co., 2018), Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton & Co., 2015). Meg is the Founding Editor of New Flash Fiction Review, Flash Challenge Columnist for Mslexia Magazine, and teaches private microfiction workshops. Meg lives in Inverness, Scotland.

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of six books, including the novel Barn 8 (Graywolf Press, 2020). Her work has appeared in Harper's, the New York Times, The Paris Review, Granta, NOON, Conjunctions, and McSweeney's. She has received a Guggenheim fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, and a Creative Capital Fellowship, and she was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. A professor at the University of Texas at Austin, she also directs the Pen City Writers, a creative-writing program at a south Texas penitentiary.