{"id":2010,"date":"2016-04-06T09:05:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2016-04-06T09:05:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:05:46","slug":"amy-hempel-to-judge-the-best-small-fictions-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=2010","title":{"rendered":"Amy Hempel To Judge The Best Small Fictions 2017!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"amyTara Masih and Queen’s Ferry Press have announced the next guest editor for The Best Small Fictions<\/em>. So exciting!<\/p>\n

\ufffcThe Best Small Fictions 2017 Announcing Guest Editor Amy Hempel<\/p>\n

\ufffc\ufffc”The Best Small Fictions . . . could be at the forefront of a burgeoning cultural movement.”
\n\u2014Allan Drew for The Newtown Review of Books<\/p>\n

Coming in October 2017, the third volume of The Best Small Fictions will feature Amy Hempel<\/strong> as Guest Editor. Series Editor Tara L. Masih will be joined by Michelle Elvy as Assistant Editor. Kim Chinquee will serve as Prose Poetry Consultant and Small Fictions Consultants include Brian Doyle, Ioanna Mavrou, Ben White, and Leesa Cross-Smith.<\/p>\n

The Best Small Fictions 2016, Guest Edited by MacArthur Fellow Stuart Dybek will be available this fall. Winners include:<\/p>\n

Amir Adam \u2022 Daniel Aristi
\nTina Barry \u2022 Paul Beckman
\nLaurie Blauner \u2022 John Brantingham Alberto Chimal \u2022 Justin Lawrence Daugherty Toh EnJoe \u2022 Grant Faulkner
\nKathy Fish \u2022 Rosie Forrest
\nMegan Giddings \u2022 Amelia Gray Charles Hansmann \u2022 Britt Haraway Mary-Jane Holmes \u2022 Laird Hunt
\nA. Nicole Kelly \u2022 James Kennedy
\nEtgar Keret \u2022 R. O. Kwon
\nNathan Leslie \u2022 Paul Lisicky
\nEliel Lucero \u2022 Nancy Ludmerer Melissa Manning \u2022 Michael Martone Elizabeth Morton \u2022 David Naimon Jessica Plante \u2022 Dianca London Potts Dawn Raffel \u2022 James Reidel
\nSophie Rosenblum \u2022 Caitlin Scarano Vincent Scarpa \u2022 Robert Scotellaro Courtney Sender \u2022 Janey Skinner Curtis Smith \u2022 Robert Vaughan
\nClio Velentza<\/em><\/p>\n

“Prepare to be surprised by this striking new series\u2014it
\nhas quickly become essential reading.” \u2014Amy Hempel<\/p>\n

Amy Hempel is the author of four acclaimed story collections. They were compiled and published in 2006 as The Collected Stories, which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the year by the New York Times and
\nwon the Ambassador Book Award for best fiction of the year. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the USA Foundation, and has won the PEN\/Rea and PEN\/Malamud Awards, among others. In 2015, Hempel received the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence from Centenary College. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages, and her stories have been heavily anthologized, including in Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories. Hempel taught at Harvard, New York University, Princeton, Bennington, and elsewhere, and now teaches at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n

“It will be well worth your while to spend a minute or 60 with some of the brightest concise writing
\navailable today.\u201d\u2014NewPages<\/p>\n

\ufffcWe would like to acknowledge the contributions of
\n\ufffcX.J. Kennedy, Michael Martone, Dawn Raffel, Motoyuki Shibata, and James Thomas; much appreciation also goes to roving editors Michael Cocchiarale,
\nTara Laskowski, and Mary Slechta, Best Small Fictions 2015<\/em> consulting editors<\/p>\n

WWW.QUEENSFERRYPRESS.COM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tara Masih and Queen’s Ferry Press have announced the next guest editor for The Best Small Fictions. So exciting! \ufffcThe Best Small Fictions 2017 Announcing Guest Editor Amy Hempel \ufffc\ufffc”The Best Small Fictions . . . could be at the forefront of a burgeoning cultural movement.” \u2014Allan Drew for The Newtown Review of Books Coming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,809,954,982,994,995],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-hempel","tag-queens-ferry-press","tag-stuart-dybek","tag-tara-masih","tag-the-best-small-fictions-2016","tag-the-best-small-fictions-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}