Last week, the Bowling Green State University MFA program welcomed Ben Stroud to campus for a Q&A and reading. Stroud is the author of the story collection Byzantium (Graywolf), which won the 2013 Story Prize Spotlight Award and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Bakeless Fiction Prize and was named a Best Book of the Year […]

For the low, low cost of $1, you can get: “The inside story of Jekyll and Hyde ten years later, a 10-year old dresses as dead poet Sylvia Plath for Halloween, and why you should not to have sex with Machiavelli’s dwarf. Plus more Kriesel poems, cartoons, and Spanky and John go to the movies.” […]

This new Shared Stories category will link to short fiction found online that I consider beautiful, funny, weird, astonishing, sad, or otherwise compelling. To kick things off, I give you “How to Tell a Story” by Margo Rabb, which won first place in the Zoetrope: All Story short story contest. I first read this story […]