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Flash Fiction America Reading

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Let's celebrate flash fiction! Join Sherrie Flick, co-editor of FLASH FICTION AMERICA: 73 VERY SHORT STORIES, and contributors Christopher Allen, Pamela Painter, Joshunda Sanders, and Jasmine Sawers, as they read from the new Norton anthology!

SHERRIE FLICK Is the author of a novel and two short story collections. She is a senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly, served as series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018, and is co-editor for Flash Fiction America.

CHRISTOPHER ALLEN is the author of the flash fiction collection Other Household Toxins (Matter Press, 2018). His work has appeared widely and is forthcoming in The Best Small Fictions 2022 and Flash Fiction America (Norton) in February 2023. Allen has judged The Bath Flash Fiction Award, Micro Madness, the Cambridge Flash Fiction Award, and is the 2023 flash fiction judge for the Bridport Prize. He has a BA in music business from Belmont University and an MA in English from Middle Tennessee State University. Allen is a nomad.

PAMELA PAINTER is the award-winning author of five story collections, and co-author of What If? Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Five Points, Flash Boulevard, Matter Press, SmokeLong Quarterly, among others, and in numerous anthologies such as Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction, Micro Fiction, New Micro, and Flash Fiction America. She has won three Pushcart Prizes and Agni Review’s John Cheever Award for Fiction. Painter’s stories have been presented on National Public Radio, on the YouTube channel, CRONOGEO, and staged by WordTheatre in Los Angeles, London and New York.

JOSHUNDA SANDERS is an award winning fiction writer and the author of several books, including the forthcoming debut novel, Women of the Post. She is a proud Bronx native and lives there, where Rhythm, her contribution to Flash Fiction America is based.

JASMINE SAWERS is a Kundiman fellow and Indiana University MFA alum whose work appears in such journals as Ploughshares, SmokeLong Quarterly, Foglifter, and many more. Their flash collection, The Anchored World, was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. They are proud to serve as an associate fiction editor for Fairy Tale Review. Originally from Buffalo, Sawers now lives outside St. Louis.

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