S120.

Short Story as Laboratory

120C, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Saturday, March 26, 2022
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

The short story is a form uniquely suited to experimentation and play. Five fiction writers discuss innovative approaches to the short story in their own work and the work of writers whom they admire, reflecting on what premises and constraints have proved fruitful for them and for others, thinking through the purpose of experimentation—what it makes possible, both for the writer and the reader—and offering exercises to prompt writers who hope to experiment in their own work.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: AWP_outline_1_Short_Story_as_Laboratory.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Cara Blue Adams is the author of You Never Get It Back, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award, judged by Brandon Taylor. Her award-winning fiction appears in Granta, the Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. She is an associate professor at Seton Hall University.

Ramona Ausubel is the author of Awayland, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, A Guide to Being Born, and the PEN America award-winning novel No One Is Here Except All of Us. Her work has been published in the New Yorker and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program at Colorado State University.

Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of Parakeet, Safe as Houses, and 2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas. Honors include the O. Henry Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Fellowship, and the Pushcart Prize. Her alien opus novel Beautyland is forthcoming from FSG. She teaches at NYU and The New School.

Gwen Kirby

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