Best Small Fictions 2024

Sparks, Amber; Alexander, Phoenix; Balagopal, Sudha; Bender, Aimee; Chen, Renee; Delgado, Moisés R.; Philyaw, Deesha; Rigodon, Val; Rooney, Kathleen

ISBN 10: 1946580538 / ISBN 13: 9781946580535

Edité par Alternating Current Press, 2025

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Synopsis :

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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Best Small Fictions 2024
Éditeur : Alternating Current Press
Date d'édition : 2025
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : very_good