short fiction

Fall Story Roundup

Fall Story Roundup

But it’s in autumn that reading becomes more than itself; a fetishized activity.

Meet our new Associate Editor: Zack Rybak

Meet our new Associate Editor: Zack Rybak

“I don’t think there’s another genre that opens up the possibility of feeling not quite so alone the way fiction does.”

Q&A with Martha Miller

Q&A with Martha Miller

Her fourth mystery novel, Widow, was published last November by Bold Strokes Books.

Q&A with Adrienne Celt

Q&A with Adrienne Celt

"Fiction, too, requires that you abandon yourself to the logic of the fictional world."

Egg Heaven, Stories, by Robin Parks

Egg Heaven, Stories, by Robin Parks

All the characters in this collection represent the basic needs of the human heart and the ways we struggle to fill those needs.

Travel the World with a New Anthology: Everywhere Stories

Travel the World with a New Anthology:  Everywhere Stories

On October 1, Press 53 will publish Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet, an anthology of twenty stories by twenty authors set in twenty different countries.

Every Kiss a War by Leesa Cross-Smith

Every Kiss a War by Leesa Cross-Smith

Leesa Cross-Smith’s debut collection is a fearless exploration of relationships. No love, lust or loss is left off the table in this sensual feast of a book.

Q&A With Spencer Gordon

Q&A With Spencer Gordon

Spencer Gordon is co-founder of the Toronto-based literary magazine The Puritan and author of the short story collection Cosmo.

Illness and Life in Carve Stories

Illness and Life in Carve Stories

Guest post by Cynthia Litz, MD, a reading committee member of Carve since 2012.