Stories That Wrestle With Black Girls’ Coming of Age

The flash fiction literary community is like an extended family. If you are a writer and reader of flash, it is in all likelihood that your inner circle of literary peeps are other flash fiction folks or, you at least, know of one another. Six degrees is more like one or two in this community. […] The post Stories That Wrestle With Black Girls’ Coming of Age appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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Short story 'newspaper' hits bookshops

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News Corp. for First Time Details Tabloid Bribe for Story on Child Killer

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Sky's Crawford to write Libya story

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BBC Short Story Award to accept global entries in 2012

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Print Comes Up Short

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Santa story in first 3D ebook

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Stelling sells his football stories to Headline

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