FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Mark Givens / 909-293-9270 / mark.givens@pelekinesis.com
Title: Best Microfiction 2026
Author: Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, and Diane Seuss, editors
Category: Fiction
Publication Date: July 7, 2026
Pages: 196
Binding: paperback
ISBN: 978-1-962702-09-6
Suggested Retail Price: $20.00
Claremont, CA – April 08, 2026 – Pelekinesis is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Best Microfiction 2026, new fiction from Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, and Diane Seuss, editors, available July 7, 2026 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 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss serving as final judge, and the world's best very short short stories.
Best Microfiction 2026 by Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, and Diane Seuss, 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-2026.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.
Diane Seuss’s sixth collection is Modern Poetry (Graywolf Press 2024), a finalist for the National Book Award, and on the shortlist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press 2021) was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Pen Voelcker Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize. Four-Legged Girl was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She received a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2021 John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Seuss is a chancellor for the Academy of American Poets. Her seventh collection, Althea: poems, is forthcoming in 2027. She was raised in rural Michigan, and has lived for many years in Kalamazoo, where she was Writer in Residence at Kalamazoo College.
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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