FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Mark Givens / 909-293-9270 / mark.givens@pelekinesis.com
Title: Best Microfiction 2025
Author: Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, and Dawn Raffel, editors
Category: Fiction
Publication Date: July 7, 2025
Pages: 196
Binding: paperback
ISBN: 978-1-949790-98-6
Suggested Retail Price: $20.00
Claremont, CA – April 08, 2025 – Pelekinesis is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Best Microfiction 2025, new fiction from Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, and Dawn Raffel, editors, available July 7, 2025 worldwide.
The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O’Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology features Dawn Raffel serving as final judge, and the world's best very short short stories.
Best Microfiction 2025 by Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, and Dawn Raffel, editors will be available through Baker & Taylor, Bertrams, directly from the publisher's website, and in fine local bookstores worldwide.
The page at Pelekinesis for supplemental material is here: http://www.pelekinesis.com/catalog/best_microfiction-2025.html
For more information please contact Mark Givens at 909-293-9270 or mark.givens@pelekinesis.com
About the author
Meg Pokrass, series editor, is the author of 7 flash fiction collections, an award-winning collection of prose poetry, 2 flash-novellas and 2 new co-written collections of flash, The House of Grana Padano, co-written with Jeff Friedman (Pelekinesis, 2022) and Disappearing Debutantes, co-written with Aimee Parkison (Outpost 19, 2023). Her work has appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and international anthologies including Electric Literature, Wigleaf, Washington Square Review, American Journal of Poetry, McSweeney's has appeared in 2 Norton anthologies of the flash fiction form: New Micro (W.W. Norton & Co., 2018), Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton & Co., 2015). Meg is the Founding Editor of New Flash Fiction Review, Flash Challenge Columnist for Mslexia Magazine, and teaches private microfiction workshops.
Gary Fincke, editor, has published thirty-one books of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, most recently, Bringing Back the Bones: New and Selected Poems, A Room of Rain: Stories, and The Killer’s Dog: Stories.
Dawn Raffel is the author of six books. Her latest, Boundless as the Sky, is a collection incorporating flash, micro-fiction, and images in its exploration of early 20th Century history, amid the rise of both fascism and technology. Previous books include The Strange Case of Dr. Couney, The Secret Life of Objects, two other collections of very short stories, and a novel in vignettes. She has taught creative writing at International Literary Seminars (previously Summer Literary Seminars) in Kenya, Russia, Lithuania, Georgia, and Canada, as well as at Columbia University and at the Center for Fiction in New York. She has also had a long career as a magazine editor, including at O, The Oprah Magazine, which she helped launch, and at the Northwest Review, where she recently served as fiction editor. Her work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including BOMB, Conjunctions, O, The Oprah Magazine, Big Other, Fence, NOON, The Quarterly,The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Providence Noir, Best Small Fictions, New Micro, and Best Microfiction.
About the publisher
Pelekinesis is a small book publishing company focusing on the development of independent authors and artists by creatively embracing the evolving publishing paradigm and utilizing modern distribution platforms. Full catalog and press material can be found at http://www.pelekinesis.com
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