January issue: “Long Story Short: International Flash Fiction”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Information
Contact: W. Brandon Lacy Campos, Development and Marketing Manager
Organization Name: Words without Borders
Telephone Number: 646-460-0551
Email Address: brandon@wordswithoutborders.org
Website Address: www.wordswithoutborders.org
Words without Borders announces its January issue: “Long Story Short: International Flash Fiction”
New York City, New York, January 4, 2009—Words without Borders (WWB) magazine announces the publication of our issue featuring the best of ultrashort fiction from around the world.
Susan Harris, WWB editorial director, stated, “This month we cut to the chase with the telescoped narratives known as flash fiction. Here flash translates to both speed and illumination, as writers focus on the telling moment. We are excited to introduce a master of the form, Israeli Yoav Avni.”
Avni’s“Trumpet Lessons,” translated from the Hebrew, is a perfect example of the genre, charting the arc of a life in one page. Avni lives in Tel Aviv and has published only one other story in English.
From silverware to war, the writers in this issue take us through the gamut of life’s experiences in three hundred to twelve hundred words. Writers in the current issue include: Israel’s Yoav Avni, Cataluña’s Sergi Pàmies and Quim Monzó, Angola’s Jose Agualusa, Brazil’s Pena Cabreira, Argentina’s Ana Maria Shua, Mexico’s Alberto Ruy Sánchez, Romania’s Horia Gârbea, France’s Gébé, and Russia’s Evgeny Shklovsky.
For additional information, please contact:
Contact: W. Brandon Lacy Campos, Development and Marketing Manager
Organization Name: Words without Borders
Telephone Number: 646-460-0551
Email Address: brandon@wordswithoutborders.org
Website Address: www.wordswithoutborders.org
Founded in 2003, Words without Borders is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that has translated over 1,100 pieces of literature and poetry representing 80 languages by writers from 111 countries. WWB has been featured in the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, the Boston Globe, the Guardian (UK), Vanity Fair, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as in various foreign-language papers and numerous literary blogs. We were selected as a featured “pick” by Yahoo immediately after our launch issue and voted one of Time magazine’s “Fifty Coolest Websites” in July 2004.
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