ICYMI, May is Short Story Month. And it’s a clickty-click day, with links below to three ways you can discover your next big read.
1. Scroll through Book Riot’s list of 100 Must-Read Contemporary Short Story Collections, for blurbs about books by established and new authors.
2. Browse Elizabeth Day’s list on The Guardian of 10 best short story collections by well-known authors you’d hate to miss.
3. Stop in at Fiction Writers Review for a month-full of short story highlights, including my review of Yang Huang’s new collection, My Old Faithful:
The idea of harmony is funny. Right off, I think of a sense of peace, a perfect blend. But there is complexity in the layers. I grew up the youngest in a family of five, and I have spent plenty of time reflecting on and searching for the harmony I always thought was lacking. . . . The truth is, though, that discord and differences mold us into a well-formed shape, individually and as a whole, and that shape, with its scratch of bitter and brush of sweet, is the essence of harmony. Yang Huang brings vision to this idea in her new collection of short stories, My Old Faithful, winner of the University of Massachusetts Press’s Juniper Prize.
As a BONUS, Click HERE for a chance to win a copy of My Old Faithful (courtesy of Fiction Writers Review and the University of Massachusetts Press). Deadline to enter is noon on Tuesday, May 29th.
