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Tag Archives: Fiction Editor
New with Guernica, Two Stories Every Two Weeks
For years, I made sure that Guernica ran at least one story, every two weeks. Doing that worked well (very well in fact, we won many awards and published many top writers). But—and this was important—there were so many other stories … Continue reading
Faulty Plug-ins and Fiction Editing
A faulty plug-in crashed my site and left it a total wreck. It was awful, but all is fine now. In the intervening period, I’ve been editing a short story collection from a Canadian writer that’s set in the area … Continue reading
New Fiction on Guernica: Panos Karnezis
This issue of Guernica fiction has an excerpt from the novel, The Convent, to be published later this month by W.W. Norton & Co. The story of a nun who adopts a baby, it’s intense and gripping. . . Dog … Continue reading
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Book Party for E.C. Osondu’s Voice of America in NYC
Where The Gallery Bar, 120 Orchard St, New York, NY When Tuesday, November 2, 7–9 p.m. E.C. Osondu I picked his story, “Waiting” out of the slush pile. It went on to win the 2009 Caine Prize, Africa’s leading literary … Continue reading
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New Fiction on Guernica
I’m not sure how many fiction pieces I’ve edited at Guernica–maybe about 100 (an exhausting thing to contemplate). This week, we have Leora Skolkin-Smith’s short story, “The Fragile Mistress,” which is an excerpt from the novel of the same name. … Continue reading
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New fiction on Guernica, from Patricia Engel
Patricia Engel’s “Dia” explores the tension that can exist between “just friends” of the opposite sex. I find him sitting on a plastic lounge chair by the hotel pool. I give a little wave and he stands. We kiss on … Continue reading
New Fiction on Guernica, by Justo Arroyo
“The Question,” by Justo Arroyo translated from Spanish by Seymour Menton “Such fiery pupils—your immediate reaction is to avoid them. But the old man knows it, and he keeps looking at you until you have no other choice but to … Continue reading
New fiction on Guernica–from Marie Myung-Ok
It’s called “A Meeting,” which is Korean slang for “group date.” Marie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of the novel, Somebody’s Daughter. Her fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Witness, and TriQuarterly and has been short-listed for the O. … Continue reading
New Fiction on Guernica
The Seven Credos and Guest Fiction Editor Ben Marcus Acclaimed author Ben Marcus, acting as Guernica‘s Guest Fiction Editor, has chosen seven writers for October and November. Knowing that “no one trusts a barking anthologist, beating his chest over the … Continue reading
New fiction on Guernica
Waiting by E.C. Osondu Nigerian writer and Caine Prize Finalist Osondu examines life in a refugee camp: “My friends in the camp are known by the inscriptions written on their t-shirts. Acapulco wears a t-shirt with the inscription, Acapulco. Sexy’s … Continue reading
New fiction on Guernica
The Memoirs and Prison Journal of Horace W. Redpole, 1793-1794 by Paul Gregory Himmelein Grandmother was sprawled upon the couch in a heap of black crinoline; her shockingly white legs were raised in the air. Mr. Sparrow supported himself in … Continue reading
New Fiction in Guernica Magazine
* Susan Daitch’s “All that is Solid” asks, what would it be like to work in the Empire State Building if/when another great ape decides to climb it? Susan read this story at the Brooklyn Public Library (a reading she … Continue reading