Description:
Fractured Lit's fourth annual anthology, judged by Morgan Talty, hosts another cast of eclectic and entertaining flash fiction stories written by today's finest practitioners of the craft of short short stories.
Brief description: Morgan Talty is a citizen of the Penobscot Indian Nation. He is the author most recently of the debut novel Fire Exit. His debut short story collection, Night of the Living Rez, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Sue Kaufman Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the New England Book Award in Fiction, the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Honor, and was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, and The Story Prize. His writing has appeared in The Georgia Review, Granta, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Narrative, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. Talty is an assistant professor of English in creative writing and Native American and contemporary literature at the University of Maine, Orono, and he is on the faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing as well as the Institute of American Indian Arts. He lives in Levant, Maine.