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A Reading and Conversation with Marian Crotty, Brenda Peynado, & Blake Sanz
Saturday, March 26, 2022
9:00 am to 10:00 am
Three award-winning writers of recently published books of short fiction give brief readings, followed by moderated conversation about the short story collection in today's publishing landscape. What are the things that a collection can say in 2021 that can't be said in other ways, and how do these authors' books strive toward that aspiration? When do you know that you have a collection that works as a whole? When do you know that you have a collection ready to submit for publication?
Participants
Blake Sanz is the winner of the 2021 Iowa Short Fiction Award for his story collection, The Boundaries of Their Dwelling (forthcoming), selected by Brandon Taylor. He has had fiction appear in Ecotone, Puerto del Sol, and Fifth Wednesday Journal.
Marian Crotty is the author of What Counts as Love, which was longlisted for the PEN/Bingham Prize and won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She is an associate professor at Loyola University Maryland and an assistant editor at the Common where she works with the Common Young Writers Program.
Brenda Peynado, author of The Rock Eaters, her debut collection, has received an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a Fulbright Grant, and a Nelson Algren Award and appears in Tor.com, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, and The Sun. She is an assistant professor at the University of Houston.
