September 4, 2017
Why We Chose It
“Light Year,” by Maria Kuznetsova appears in the July/Aug 2017 issue of KROnline. Some stories catch my eye because I don’t recall having read anything like them: they wear their […]
May 4, 2015
A Reading from AWP
Ed. Note: Fiction Editor Caitlin Horrocks wrote the following story for the “New Voices at the Kenyon Review” panel presented at AWP last month. The story is composed entirely of lines […]
April 1, 2015
Why We Chose It
Rolf Yngve’s “A Prerogative” I try not to make sweeping pronouncements about what does and doesn’t work in short stories, because I’ll always turn out to be wrong. But I’ve […]
February 3, 2015
Why We Chose It
“Dead Dresses” by Rachel Cantor Rachel Cantor’s story “Dead Dresses,” which appears in the Jan/Feb 2015 print issue, begins like this: “It being an odd day, they meet on Emmilloni’s […]
April 6, 2014
Why We Chose It
On “Beauty in the Age of Chaos and Savagery” by Michael Nye I think some writers suspect editors of taking a ghoulish pleasure in saying “no” to a submission, the […]
July 21, 2012
from A Field Guide to North American Blurbs
As I’m preparing two blurbs this weekend, I’m looking at a lot of blurbs and thinking about the genre. Maybe there are some observations to be made about the varieties […]