May is National Short Story Month at Thistledown There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didnt like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way. — Stephen Colbert There are as many ways to write a short story as there are writers who have reasons for doing so. The legacy is there: intensity, brevity and balance says Annie Prolux; the astonishing way something happens, not ‘what’ happens according to Alice Munroe. What motivates a writer to undertake the creation of this fierce literary form is also as varied as the writer’s desire. For Raymond Carver the short story addressed his concern that life was short and the water was rising; for Chekhov the short story neutralized the ease of entropy. For many Canadian short fiction writers it is the best of all possibilities: concentrated and economical like poetry yet as intuitive and complete in addressing the human condition as a novel. At Thistledown, we have been publishing short stories for decades. And unlike the declared common wisdom of New York publishers who often disguise the form as short novels, we celebrate the short story. More Here … thistledownpress/index.cfm
Posted on: Wed, 14 May 2014 23:18:26 +0000
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