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For those not familiar with literary work, short stories sound deceptively simple, even easy. But writers know that the length of a story is not indicative of its complexity. Novelists are often unprepared for the level of scrutiny involved in crafting a piece of short fiction, where there is nowhere to hide. In microfiction, flash fiction, and longer short stories, writers are more exposed than in any other form of writing. Short story editors know that better than anyone — and they’re there to help write
Jack’s bio is as star-studded as it gets in the field of short fiction: he’s a former Paris Review editor who studied writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop under Marilynne Robinson (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2005) and Elizabeth McCracken (PEN New England Award). The impressive names don’t stop there: he was later a Stegner Fellow at Stanford, working with Tobias Wolff. His own writing won the PEN / Bingham Award for debut fiction and received two Pushcart prizes and the Rome Prize for Literature , wherea