Short stories get a bad rap ... Penguin Random House In this contemporary collection, women face daily violence, family issues, addiction struggles and much more. In “Tomi,” a woman is ...

Holdefer grew up in central Iowa and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His upcoming short story collection is titled “Ivan the Terrible Goes on a Family Picnic” and explores a myriad of concepts ...

Each year, among the new fiction collections fighting for ... s “Are We Ever Our Own” (BOA Short Fiction Prize) follows descendants of a Cuban family to America and beyond.

The bestselling family drama ... There are 17 stories. Some of them are flash fiction, so they’re really, really short. And they’re all about the Indigenous experience in North America ...

I thought, “Violence would be the last story in the collection, “The Fireman’s Wife and Other Stories.” My short story “All ... of grief and enduring family connection, themes that ...

Family, maybe, intruding on her writing ... a six-figure two-book deal, short-story collection followed by a novel, prizes and longlists, optioned for film by a commercially viable director ...

This is the Alaska that longtime Homer author Richard Chiappone stakes his claim on in “Uncommon Weather,” his recently published short story collection ... runs in his family, and Melanie ...

She takes on climate impact in an especially inventive way in her new short story collection entitled Honeymoons ... the type of family background they have. And so that's a piece of reality ...