T202B.
Building a Bridge: The Linked Story Collection & the Novel
Thursday, March 24, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
The linked short story collection is capacious. By considering a range of formal possibilities—from collections loosely linked by voice or theme to more traditionally linked collections united by place or character to novels that make use of the form of the collection through, for example, the use of an episodic structure—we will investigate ways to conceive of and begin (or finish!) book projects along this spectrum, guided by a sense of what the writer wants to collect.
Participants
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.
Asako Serizawa is the author of Inheritors, which won the 2021 PEN/Open Book Award and the Story Prize Spotlight Award. She is a recipient of two O. Henry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and a fiction fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Kirstin Valdez Quade's story collection, Night at the Fiestas won the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard award, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, a 5 Under 35”award from the National Book Foundation, and was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. She is an assistant professor at Princeton.
Sidik Fofana
Jonathan Escoffery
