Announcement of the 2024 ‘Best Small Fictions’ Guest Editor: Amber Sparks
We are thrilled to announce that the guest editor for the 2024 Best Small Fictions anthology has been selected. Please welcome author Amber Sparks, who will select the Spotlighted Stories and provide an introduction for the 2024 edition, which will be available from Alternating Current Press this fall.
Best Small Fictions is the first-ever contemporary anthology solely dedicated to anthologizing the best internationally published short hybrid fiction in a given calendar year. Now in its tenth year of existence, Best Small Fictions features the best microfiction, flash fiction, haibun stories, and prose poetry from around the world.
AMBER SPARKS is the author of an upcoming novel, Happy People Don’t Live Here, and four collections of short fiction, including And I Do Not Forgive You: Revenges and Other Stories and The Unfinished World. Her fiction and essays have appeared in American Short Fiction, The Paris Review, Slate, Tin House, Granta, The Cut, and elsewhere. Her last collection was longlisted for the Story Prize, and she received a residency fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, daughter, and two cats.
