Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1997

by Danford, Natalie; Kulka, John

• ISBN13: 9780684833149
• ISBN10: 068483314X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-20
• Publisher: Touchstone

Summary

From Simon & Schuster, Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1997 showcases the most exciting and innovative invoice in North American fiction from 1997.

This collection presents an appealing array of outstanding short stories by talented newcomers selected from submissions from a wide range of writing workshops around the United States and Canada.

Author Biography

Natalie Danford is a freelance writer and book critic whose work has appeared in People, Salon, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, and many other publications.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(3)
Introduction	10	(7)
Alice Hoffman
Jericho	17	(19)
Margaret Price (University of Michigan)
Now You See Her	36	(16)
Michael Knight (University of Virginia)
Bloodlines	52	(15)
Julie Rold (Boston University)
The Distance Between Prague and New Orleans	67	(25)
Adam Schroeder (University of British Columbia)
The Priest	92	(11)
Kim Garcia (Florida State University)
Finding Land	103	(14)
Marian Pierce (University of Iowa)
Tallulah at Your Feet	117	(10)
Denise Simard (Saint Mary's College of California)
Cartography	127	(15)
Camie Kim (Concordia University)
Kerr's Fault	142	(18)
Jon Billman (Eastern Washington University)
Skin	160	(23)
Kerry Cohen (University of Oregon)
First Grade	183	(13)
Catherine Li--Ming Seto (University of Michigan)
Molested	196	(35)
Jean C. Lee (Louisiana State University)
Living Near Canada	231	(14)
George Rogers (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
Chemistry	245	(32)
Heather McGowan (Brown University)
Escape	277	(13)
Connie Barnes Rose (Concordia University)
Climbers	290	(11)
Wendy T. Button (Bennington College)
Watertables	301	(15)
Adam Marshall Johnson (McNesse State University)
Consolation	316	(16)
Caroline Cheng (Columbia University)
A Few Fish and Anonymous Spaniards	332	(14)
Marjorie Priceman (Pennsylvania State University)
The One Life	346	(17)
Andrew Foster Altschul (University of California, Irvine)
Mrs. Sarah Quash	363	(19)
Marlais Olmstead (SUNY at Stony Brook)
Lady Slipper	382	(13)
Lindsay Fleming (John Hopkins University
Participating Workshops	395