{"product_id":"best-microfiction-2025-9781949790986","title":"Best Microfiction 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer\/editor \u003cstrong\u003eMeg Pokrass\u003c\/strong\u003e, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author \u003cstrong\u003eGary Fincke\u003c\/strong\u003e, the anthology features \u003cstrong\u003eDawn Raffel\u003c\/strong\u003e serving as final judge, five essays \u0026amp; other insights, and eighty-one of the world's best very short short stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePokrass, Meg:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Meg Pokrass, series editor, is the author of 7 flash fiction collections, an award-winning collection of prose poetry, 2 flash-novellas and 2 new co-written collections of flash, \"The House of Grana Padano\", co-written with Jeff Friedman (Pelekinesis, 2022) and \"Disappearing Debutantes\", co-written with Aimee Parkison (Outpost 19, 2023). Her work has appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and international anthologies including Electric Literature, Wigleaf, Washington Square Review, American Journal of Poetry, McSweeney's has appeared in 2 Norton anthologies of the flash fiction form: New Micro (W.W. Norton \u0026amp; Co., 2018), Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton \u0026amp; Co., 2015). Meg is the Founding Editor of New Flash Fiction Review, Flash Challenge Columnist for Mslexia Magazine, and teaches private microfiction workshops.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFincke, Gary:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Gary Fincke, editor, has published thirty-one books of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, most recently, Bringing Back the Bones: New and Selected Poems, A Room of Rain: Stories, and The Killer's Dog: Stories.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaffel, Dawn:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eDawn Raffel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of six books. Her latest, \u003ci\u003eBoundless as the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e, is a collection incorporating flash, micro-fiction, and images in its exploration of early 20th Century history, amid the rise of both fascism and technology. Previous books include \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Case of Dr. Couney\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Life of Objects\u003c\/i\u003e, two other collections of very short stories, and a novel in vignettes. She has taught creative writing at International Literary Seminars (previously Summer Literary Seminars) in Kenya, Russia, Lithuania, Georgia, and Canada, as well as at Columbia University and at the Center for Fiction in New York. She has also had a long career as a magazine editor, including at \u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, which she helped launch, and at the \u003ci\u003eNorthwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e, where she recently served as fiction editor. Her work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBig Other\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNOON\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Quarterly, The Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Antioch Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Anchor Book of New American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProvidence Noir\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest Small Fictions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Micro\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBest Microfiction\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Pelekinesis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51415292903698,"sku":"9781949790986","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b868b338-043b-4a47-bec0-66d62993bd8f.jpg?v=1751132549","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/best-microfiction-2025-9781949790986","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}