American Short Fiction is a nationally circulated literary magazine founded in 1991 and based in Austin, Texas . Issued triannually, American Short Fiction publishes short fiction, novel excerpts, an occasional novella, and strives to publish work by both established and emerging contemporary authors. The magazine seeks out stories "that dive into the wreck, that stretch the reader between recognition and surprise, that conjure a particular world with delicate expertise—stories that take a different way home."
19-670: American Short Fiction sponsors two annual short fiction contests, the Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize judged in 2018 by ZZ Packer , and the American Short(er) Fiction Prize. The magazine also sponsors a reading series in Austin as well as online workshops for fiction writers. Founded in 1991 by editor Laura Furman , American Short Fiction was published until 1998 by the University of Texas Press in cooperation with
38-788: A MacArthur Fellowship . Whitehead was born in New York City on November 6, 1969, and grew up in Manhattan . He is one of four children of successful entrepreneur parents who owned an executive recruiting firm. As a child in Manhattan, Whitehead went by his first name Arch. He later switched to Chipp, before switching to Colson. He attended Trinity School in Manhattan and graduated from Harvard University in 1991. In college, he became friends with poet Kevin Young . After graduating from college, Whitehead wrote for The Village Voice . While working at
57-510: A Comeback: American Short Fiction Returns Once Again" 4. Wolitzer, Meg. "Best American Short Stories 2017" ZZ Packer Zuwena "ZZ" Packer (born January 12, 1973) is an American writer, primarily of works of short fiction . Born in Chicago, Illinois , Packer grew up in Atlanta, Georgia , and Louisville, Kentucky . "ZZ" was a childhood nickname; her given name is Zuwena. Her writing
76-681: A thirty-one-year-old Harvard graduate with the vivid name of Colson Whitehead." The Intuitionist was nominated as the Common Novel at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The Common Novel nomination was part of a longtime tradition at the Institute that included such authors as Maya Angelou , Andre Dubus III , William Joseph Kennedy , and Anthony Swofford . Whitehead's nonfiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times , The New Yorker , Granta , and Harper's . His nonfiction account of
95-528: Is an American novelist . He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist ; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ; and The Nickel Boys , for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received
114-402: Is taught in creative writing courses nationwide and with good reason. This short story collection is brimming with characters who are striving to find themselves, to understand themselves, and to survive", commented novelist Colson Whitehead . In an interview when Packer was a Radcliffe Fellow , in 2015, she reported that she working on a novel set during Reconstruction in the aftermath of
133-401: The 2011 World Series of Poker , The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky & Death , was published by Doubleday in 2014. Whitehead has taught at Princeton University , New York University , the University of Houston , Columbia University , Brooklyn College , Hunter College , and Wesleyan University . He has been a writer-in-residence at Vassar College , the University of Richmond , and
152-617: The Civil War . The novel-in-progress, The Thousands, "chronicles the lives of black, white, and Native American families shortly after the Civil War, through Reconstruction and the Indian Campaigns in the Southwest". She has been regularly contributing to The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker . Colson Whitehead Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969)
171-655: The University of Wyoming . In 2015, he joined The New York Times Magazine to write a column on language. The Underground Railroad was a selection of Oprah's Book Club 2.0 , and was chosen by President Barack Obama as one of five books on his summer vacation reading list. In 2017, the novel was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction at the American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference in Atlanta , Georgia. Colson
190-549: The Voice , he began drafting his first novels. Early in his career, Whitehead lived in Fort Greene, Brooklyn . Whitehead has since produced 11 book-length works—nine novels and two nonfiction works, including a meditation on life in Manhattan in the style of E. B. White 's famous 1949 essay Here Is New York . Whitehead's books are The Intuitionist (1999); John Henry Days (2001); The Colossus of New York (2003); Apex Hides
209-726: The Hurt (2006); Sag Harbor (2009); 2011's Zone One , a New York Times bestseller ; 2016's The Underground Railroad , which earned a National Book Award for Fiction ; The Nickel Boys (2019); Harlem Shuffle (2021); and Crook Manifesto (2023). Esquire magazine named The Intuitionist the best first novel of the year, and GQ called it one of the "novels of the millennium". Novelist John Updike , reviewing The Intuitionist in The New Yorker , called Whitehead "ambitious", "scintillating", and "strikingly original", adding: "The young African-American writer to watch may well be
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#1733114445526228-692: The Texas Center for Writers and National Public Radio 's "The Sound of Writing" broadcast. During its initial run, the magazine was a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award for fiction and contributors’ work was anthologized in The Best American Short Stories , The O. Henry Prize Stories , and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses . The journal was purchased in 2003 by Badgerdog Literary Publishing and released
247-1245: The first issue of its second run in Winter 2006. Following a hiatus in 2012, the magazine reorganized under current editors Rebecca Markovits and Adeena Reitberger, and is now published by the Austin, Texas-based non-profit American Short Fiction, Inc. The journal maintains high standards for publication. In April 2017, Bret Anthony Johnston 's story, "Half of What Atlee Rouse Knows About Horses" featured in American Short Fiction 's 25th Anniversary Issue, won The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. Two recent stories, Danielle Evans's "Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain" and Kyle McCarthy's "Ancient Rome" have been chosen to appear in The Best American Short Stories 2017 . Contributions have also been anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading and have appeared in Best American Fantasy . 1. American Short Fiction : About 2. Ankrum, Nora. "Write of Passage" 3. McGarvey, Shannon. "Call it
266-510: The prize called the novel "a spare and devastating exploration of abuse at a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida that is ultimately a powerful tale of human perseverance, dignity and redemption". It was Whitehead's second win, making him the fourth writer to win the prize twice. In 2022, it was announced that Whitehead will executive produce the upcoming film adaptation of the same name . Whitehead's eighth novel, Harlem Shuffle ,
285-557: Was conceived and begun before he wrote The Nickel Boys . It is a work of crime fiction set in Harlem during the 1960s. Whitehead spent years writing it, and finished it in "bite-sized chunks" during the months he spent in quarantine in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic . Harlem Shuffle was published by Doubleday on September 14, 2021. Crook Manifesto , Whitehead's ninth novel and
304-611: Was first published in the Debut Fiction issue of The New Yorker in 2000. Her short story in the issue became the title story in her collection Drinking Coffee Elsewhere . As Publishers Weekly put it, "this debut short story collection is getting the highest of accolades from the New York Times , Harper's , the New Yorker and most every other branch of the literary criticism tree." "ZZ Packer’s Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
323-522: Was honored with the 2017 Hurston/Wright Award for fiction presented by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. The Underground Railroad won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction . Judges of the prize called the novel "a smart melding of realism and allegory that combines the violence of slavery and the drama of escape in a myth that speaks to contemporary America". Whitehead's seventh novel, The Nickel Boys ,
342-511: Was published in 2019. It was inspired by the story of the Dozier School for Boys in Florida, where children convicted of minor offenses suffered violent abuse. In conjunction with its publication, Whitehead was featured on the cover Time magazine's July 8, 2019, edition, alongside the strap-line "America's Storyteller". The Nickel Boys won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction . Judges of
361-523: Was published in the magazine Seventeen at the age of 19. Packer is a 1990 graduate of Seneca High School in Louisville, Kentucky. Packer attended Yale University , receiving her BA in 1994. Her graduate work included an MA at Johns Hopkins University in 1995 and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop of the University of Iowa in 1999, where she was mentored by James Alan McPherson . Her work
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