Yet, inside both of these stories, other stories are told. Now, in the ranks of Saunders and Link, we should add Brian Evenson's newest collection, A Collapse of Horses.Ī Collapse of Horses' central narrative concept is introduced and concluded by its bookending stories: "Black Bark" and "The Blood Drip." "Black Bark" is about two injured outlaws fleeing into the desert similarly, "The Blood Drip" is about two nefarious men driven out of town. The kinds of books that continually open up their specific world with each piece. Works like Tenth of December by George Saunders or Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link. And I'm not talking about novels-in-stories I'm talking about thematically-linked, tonally-rich, expanding universes. The ability to put together not only a collection of individual artistic creations, but to also have them work in conjunction with each other, in a dialogic pattern of narrative inhale and exhale and the moments in-between-that's true mastery, in my opinion. Be it Pink Floyd's The Wall or Nine Inch Nails's The Downward Spiral. Self-published writers and writers with story collections and novels with a small circulation are welcome to submit.I love a good concept album. (We are interested in offering a larger platform to new writers. Submissions are open from Sept 15 – Nov 15.This contest is in the very best of hands. Evenson is a Shirley Jackson, International Horror, and Edgar Award finalist, as well as the winner of three O. He is one of fiction’s best literary writers with a stellar eye for gothic and dark literary fiction.
Click here to read past winners, check out the submissions guidelines, and submit! Happy Fall, y’all.īRIAN EVENSON is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses. Second and third place stories win $200 and $100 respectively, publication, and correspondence from our judge. The winning story receives publication, $2000, and a note from our judgeon why the story was chosen. Send us your very best fiction of 7000 words or less. So, we are stoked to put out a call for stories for this year’s Fall Fiction Contest judged by Brian Evenson. There is something about the chilly weather and changing leaves that spurs our creativity and makes us crave a good short story.
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