My new flash fiction collection, Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018 is featured on David Abrams’ Quivering Pen Blog today as part of his Friday Freebie feature! Info on how to enter to win a FREE copy is HERE. Double your chances of winning by linking The Quivering Pen to your Facebook page or Twitter!
Dan Crawley reviews my new collection at Soft Cartel. Here is an excerpt: “Study Fish’s magnificent word choices, her unique descriptions of us like we’ve never been described, learn her distinctive translations of love and struggle and togetherness and separations. Learn that she has written the new stories of our time, any time, in a fresh, original
I’m so excited to announce that my fifth collection of flash fiction has released and is available now directly from Matter Press! From a review by Kristin M. Ploetz at JMWW: “The dozens of literary journals that published many of these stories the first time (Jellyfish Review, Smokelong Quarterly, FRiGG, Wigleaf, Hobart, Yemassee Journal, and Guernica, just to name a few)
Many thanks to Kristen M. Ploetz at JMWW for this lovely review of my forthcoming flash fiction collection, WILD LIFE: COLLECTED WORKS. I’m so honored and grateful. Here is an excerpt: “As this vast collection of 109 stories shows, Fish is a tireless flash fiction maven and master. What can you say about a writer
I’ve got a new story up at Wigleaf today. A friend described it as “odd, quiet, and sad” which sounds about right. There’s also an odd postcard and a brief interview up on the site. Wigleaf is celebrating its 10th year as a brilliant venue for flash fiction and the publisher of the yearly Wigleaf
I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation with the lovely and talented Cathy Ulrich at Pidgeonholes. She asked some great questions about my series of Five Micros published there a few months ago. Here is an excerpt of the interview: “ULRICH: What I love about these interconnected pieces is how much history they hold, how expansive they
I’m thrilled to announce that Matter Press is re-issuing my 2011 collection, Wild Life, including flash and prose poetry from my previous collections as well as new work. We are aiming for a March 1st release if not before. Please let me know if you’re interested in reviewing this collection. I will have ARCs available
I’m incredibly honored that my piece, “Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild,” originally published in Jellyfish Review,* is included in the 2018 volume of Best American Nonrequired Reading. Many thanks to series editor Clara Sankey and the high school students from 826 National, as well as guest editor, Sheila Heti. Also included is work
The Writing Wild in Costa Rica Retreat is now nearly filled. Only one room remains and it’s the lovely Shine Room, the largest of the Casa, featuring a queen bed, two twins (that can be set as bunk beds), a private bathroom, as well as space for an additional bunk bed. These are the very
I’m so pleased to have two of my flashes (“The Possibility of Bears” and “Akimbo”) featured in the W.W. Norton anthology, New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, edited by James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro, amongst some of my all-time favorite writers. Many thanks to Tommy Dean for another thoughtful interview. Tommy asked great questions about my