SHORT STORIES by COLLEGE WRITERS

 

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Gravity Fiction is a new kind of anthology – stories by college writers, with commentary on the craft of writing fiction.

 

For readers, writers, students, and teachers. This is an excellent addition to a college fiction writing course or for those studying the craft. Good examples model the process of how fine fiction is created. Commentary on

              character  |  plot  |  point of view  |  theme  |  blocking  |  motif

              frontstory/backstory  |  foil  |  genre fiction  |  voice

              foreign language  |  modes  |  premises  |  and more.
 

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction

Excerpts

 

ISBN: 978-1-4392-2499-1

216 pages

 

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Reviews

Donald Schneider

Meredith Sue Willis’s Books for Readers newsletter
Ed Davis, writer, teacher, and member of the Gravity Fiction Editorial Board, assesses Gravity Fiction in Meredith Sue Willis’s newsletter #120.

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          link to newsletter # 120 (review appears here)

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Links

Courtney Mauk author of “Beautiful Things”

Dennis L. Hitzeman author of “Never Enough”

Ed Davis

Fiction Weekly literary journal

Donald Schneider’s Literary Reviews

 


Participating Schools

Thank you to the following schools. Individuals at each send nominations of their students' fiction, or the author of a story chosen attended when the piece was written.

 

Columbia College

Fiction Writing Department

600 Michigan Avenue

Chicago, IL 60605

www.colum.edu/Academics/Fiction_Writing

 

Edison Community College

English Department

1973 Edison Drive 

Piqua, OH 45356

www.edison.cc.oh.us/english

 

Oberlin College

10 N. Professor St.
Creative Writing Program, Rice Hall 13
Oberlin, OH 44074-1095
www.oberlin.edu/crwrite

 

Pennsylvania State University

Department of English

117 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802

english.la.psu.edu/graduate/masteroffinearts.htm

 

Sinclair Community College

English & Creative Writing

444 West Third Street

Dayton, OH 45402

www.sinclair.edu/academics/lcs/departments/eng/CreativeWriting

 

Texas State University

Department of English
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666

www.mfatxstate.com

 

University of Arizona

Creative Writing Program
Department of English
P.O. Box 210067
Tucson, AZ 85721-0067
english.arizona.edu/index_site.php?id=100

 

University of New Orleans

Creative Writing Workshop
Department of English
New Orleans, LA 70148

www.cola.uno.edu/cww

 

West Virginia University

Department of English

230 Stansbury Hall

P.O. Box 6296

english.wvu.edu/graduate_studies/creative_writing

 

Wright State University

Department of English

3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy.

Dayton, OH 45435-0001

www.wright.edu/cola/Dept/eng

 

 


Nominations
Plans for subsequent editions of Gravity Fiction are to include stories from undergraduate students, from colleges and universities across the U.S. That depends on receiving nominations from faculty and staff. If you teach undergraduate fiction writing, sign up below for notification of open nomination periods and to receive updates about how to nominate your students. If you’re a student, or if you know someone who teaches fiction writing or works with a college fiction writing program, please tell school staff about this opportunity.

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Gravity Fiction

 

Editorial Advisory Board 

Ed Davis is a writer and college professor.

Pam Geisel is a former college teacher and the artist behind For Quilts Sake.

Michela Greco is a student at Bowling Green State University.

Ryan Ireland is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Wright State University.

Macy Reynolds has been a high school English teacher and college teacher.

Roger Reynolds is an avid reader.

 

Editor

Scott Geisel

 

Scott Geisel has published stories in a variety of journals and anthologies. He was a finalist for the 2008 Eric Hoffer Award for fiction and has a story included in Best New Writing 2008. He was a founding co-editor of MudRock: Stories and Tales (including Honorable Mention, Best American Mystery Stories 2004) and Assisting Editor for Flash Fiction Forward and New Sudden Fiction (W.W. Norton 2006, 2007). Scott has been a speaker at writers’ conferences, a regular writing teaching at the Dayton Art Institute, and founded a series of teen fiction writing workshops and a publication with the Dayton Metro Library. He teaches at Wright State University.

 

 


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Yellow Springs, OH 45387

 

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