Best Small Fictions 2024

BEST SMALL FICTIONS is the first-ever contemporary anthology solely dedicated to anthologizing the best internationally published short hybrid fiction in a given calendar year. Inaugurated with the 2015 edition, the series features the best microfiction, flash fiction, haibun stories, and prose poetry from around the world. From the 2024 introduction by guest editor Amber Sparks: The very-short story writer must take those basic elements of story and crush them down into a very small, dazzling diamond. Small fictions can often be epic, spanning centuries, epochs, geological ages; and keeping them so tightly compressed can lend an air of almost mystic importance, of great and terrible power to describe and remake the world in an instant. When I think about small in art, I think dollhouses, dioramas, miniature portraits. I think Joseph Cornell’s boxes and Walter Potter’s taxidermies. I think of Wes Anderson’s short films and Victorian mourning lockets. In other words, I imagine tight spaces that contain an ocean of story. To me, a small fiction is a planetarium: It contains the whole universe within, and we are all invited to look and look and look. I hope the universe opens to you in this book.
ASIN: 1946580538
VSKU: BVV.1946580538.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Sparks, Amber|Alexander, Phoenix|Bender, Aimee|Chen, Renee|Balagopal, Sudha|Philyaw, Deesha|Delgado, Moisés R.|Rigodon, Val|Leslie, Nathan|Rooney, Kathleen
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.