Tag: Short Story

Conversations Between Friends: Nora Shalaway Carpenter and Rob Costello

By Guest Author | Interviews, Craft, Classroom | September 4, 2024

Image is the book cover for DANCING WITH BEARS: QUEER FABLES FOR THE END TIMES by Rob Costello; title card for the new interview with Nora Shalaway Carpenter.

Nora Shalaway Carpenter and Rob Costello met during their MFA program over a decade ago. Now both creative writing educators, they have collaborated on a number of projects, including Shalaway Carpenter’s acclaimed anthology Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Stereotypes…

Insinuating Life: Diction and Syntax in the Short Story

By Guest Author | Craft, Classroom, Critical Essays | January 24, 2024

Image is a color photograph of a window with white transparent curtains; title card for the new craft essay, "Insinuating Life: Diction and Syntax in the Short Story," by Rose Smith.

By Rose Smith • Here’s something I am curious about: when is a well-placed flourish, maybe even a flurry of adjectives and adverbs, perfect for a story, and when are the simplest of sentences called for? Two stories came…