The strongest, sharpest short stories can live inside readers for months and pack an emotional wallop equivalent to a gut punch. This conversation, co-sponsored by MWPA and PRINT: A Bookstore, will celebrate fierce transformative short stories by acclaimed writers Danielle Evans, Laura van den Berg, and Farah Ali. How have each of these writers discovered and honed their unique and fearless voices? What is a writer’s obligation to engage with the politics of the world?
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Please visit PRINT: A Bookstore to order copies:
The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears by Laura van den Berg
2020 Pushcart Prize Best of the Small Presses featuring Farah Ali’s story, “The Effect of Heat on Poor People.”
Danielle Evans is the author of the story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the PEN America PEN/Robert W. Bingham prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Paterson Prize, and a National Book Foundation "5 under 35" selection. Her stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories. She teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
Laura van den Berg’s most recent book is the widely praised short story collection, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears. Other books include the novel The Third Hotel and two other collections of stories, The Isle of Youth and What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, as well as the novel Find Me. Her stories have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading.
Farah Ali is from Pakistan. Her work has been anthologized in the 2020 Pushcart Prize as well as received special mention in the 2018 Pushcart anthology. Her stories can be found in Shenandoah, The Arkansas International, The Southern Review, Kenyon Review online, Copper Nickel, and others.