![]() ![]() ![]() I sent frantic emails to my thesis advisor who promptly called me into her office. I was turning forty this year, a late bloomer. ![]() I applied to my program adamant about composing short stories but then experienced a moment of fearful uncertainty when a well-meaning instructor advised me to instead pursue my young adult novel, a book whose inchoate existence surprised me when it thrived over two semesters. I have committed myself to a collection for my MFA thesis work in the fall. I pose this question as a writer and reader of short stories. In an article last November, The Review revealed that even renowned published authors testify to the monetary inequities between the novel and short fiction. If it’s not an agent in a smart pantsuit at AWP touting the importance of a novel being an emerging writer’s first book, it’s MFA colleagues commiserating on the discouragement they faced even before producing a collection. There has been much lamentation about the decline of the short story collection. ![]()
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