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The Comedy of Short Fiction

Annell López

5.7.24

The author of I’ll Give You a Reason contemplates the common ground between a joke and a short story.

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Laurie Frankel

1.22.24

The author of Family Family explores why tired tropes proliferate in fiction—and how to avoid them.

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Peter Kispert

3.1.21

The author of I Know You Know Who I Am recalls his first attempt at writing a braided narrative.

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Khadijah Queen

1.25.21

The author of Anodyne shares her methodology for determining the order of poems in a collection.

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Jordan Kisner

12.7.20

The author of Thin Places considers how to write an essay (or essay collection) that follows the arc of epiphany.

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