March 26, 2017
Congratulations to Jesse Goolsby, whose story, "Waist Deep at Hapuna," will be republished in The Best Small Fictions 2017. "Waist Deep in Hapuna" was first published in Pleiades issue 36.2. For a sneak peek, read the excerpt below, then purchase a subscription to Pleiades here. - "Waist Deep in Hapuna" by Jesse Goolsby - I'm an active-duty Air Force officer and I don't want to die. - Urgency is my ...
March 19, 2017
This is a continuation of our posts on teaching revision, most recently this one. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.]. About a week ago a writer friend posted something on Facebook about a student not wanting to make her story clear and comparing it to "Hills Like White Elephants." The point being, I guess, to argue for ambiguity as a kind of ...
March 15, 2017
This is a continuation of our posts on teaching revision. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.]. I'm teaching my revision-only course again this Spring, and though there is some repetition from the last time, including some repeated revision prompts (see here and here for old examples--I'll post any new ones once the course has wrapped up), because of ...
March 05, 2017
We are very pleased to announce that Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi's story "dissolving newspaper, fermented leaves" received a "Special Mention" in the Pushcart Prize XLI Anthology. For a sneak peek, read the excerpt below, then purchase a subscription to Pleiades here. Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi dissolving newspaper, fermenting leaves To persuade her cricket to eat, Margaret Morri cooked every recipe she’d ...