Sherrie Flick

Events & News

  • Sophean Soeun wrote a sweet review of Reconsidering Happiness on her blog.
  • Ploughshare‘s blog has posted my contribution to their series Writers and Their Pets organized by editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph. May 15, 2003.
  • I have an essay forthcoming in the anthology Fried Walley and Cherry Pie: Midwestern Writers on Food. It’s now up for pre-order. Release date: November 2013.
  • Several of my previously published in hard copy only stories are now available at DeepShelf!
  • I’ll be reading at the Coffee Buddha series on Tuesday, May 28. 8pm. North Hills: 967-973 U.S. 19, Pittsburgh, PA 15237. Curated by Jeffrey Condran.
  • On Tuesday, June 18th I’ll read at Hemingway’s  in Oakland, 15213 with Leslie Ann McIlvoy, Barbara Edelman, and Sean Thomas Daugherty. Curated by Joan Bauer.
  • I put together a literary event for Mean Girls, a wonderful exhibition curated by Jill Larson at Space Gallery in Pittsburgh’s cultural district. The program MEAN GIRLS: A READING was Saturday, March 30. Writers: Yona Harvey, Joy Katz, Jen Bannan, Chauna Craig, Elise Levine, Ellen Smith, Lois Williams, Sarah Shotland, and Sarah Leavens.
  • I read in Kansas City on Thursday, March 21, 2013 at The Writers Place along with the wonderful writers Patricia Cleary Miller and Joe Harrington. 7pm.
  • On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 I read at Assemble in Pittsburgh with Peter Trachtenberg and Carmen Gimenez Smith. 5125 Penn Ave. 7pm. Curated by Joy Katz to benefit LAB. $3 at the door.
  • Boston AWP 2013: I was on a panel Thursday, March 7 at 9am. “Words to Eat: The Challenge of Writing About Food” with Clara Silverstein, Kate Myles, and Martha Bayne. Room 209, Level 2.
  • In February 2013 I joined the advisory board of Words Without Walls.
  • In February I also participated in Guy Capecelatro’s project “Some Women” for the annual RPM Challenge. I wrote lyrics for two songs: Cecil and Lenora. Bob Marion wrote the music. We recorded them with our improvised band: Potluck Bus Stop.
  • I have two stories in Weave magazine’s Winter 2013 issue, vol. 8.
  • My story “Stopping” appeared in Corium Magazine’s Winter 2013 issue.
  • Clarion University graciously asked me to read in their Spoken Word series in February 2013. Student journalist Alex Krach wrote a nice piece about it for The Clarion Call.
  • I’m writing a regular food column for Pittsburgh Quarterly magazine. My first installment, “The Beginning,” showed up in the Winter 2013 issue.
  • On February 13, 2013 I was featured reader at University of Pittsburgh’s MFA series: SpeakEasy at Assemble. Super fun.
  • My essay “Not Talking About Sage” appears in Issue 10 of Superstition Review, December 2012.
  • My story “Emmalene’s Bakery and Bait Shop” went live December 7, 2012 as part of Booth Journal and Michael Martone’s ongoing Winesburg, Indiana project.
  • Prime Number Magazine has published my story “Canoe” in its July-September issue #23.
  • There’s an interview conversation with me up at the wonderful Necessary Fiction.
  • My story “Gravity” (published in Booth journal) was selected by Dan Chaon for Wigleaf’s Top 50 (Very) Short Fiction List 2012.
  • Speaking Of… reading series in Pittsburgh has graciously asked me to return to its stage on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at the New Hazlett Theater, North Side.
  • I taught at the Ligonier Valley Writers Conference this summer, Saturday, July 21, 2012.
  • I’ve joined the advisory board of Braddock Avenue Books.
  • The Spring 2012 print issue of Booth journal includes my flash stories “Gravity” and “Sorrel.”
  • I led a writing workshop this April 13-15 in Brownsville, Nebraska as part of their Wine, Writers & Song festival. This is a super fun festival.
  • I have flash fiction in Sententia‘s all-women issue (selected by guest fiction editor Jen Michalski).
  • I helped host Carnegie Museum of Art’s Culture Club on Thursday, February 16, 2012 by reading my story “The Lake” in front of its inspiration–the painting “Lake Time” by Alex Katz–and discussing my creative process regarding writing from art. Great crowd. Super fun program.
  • I’m honored to be included in the innovative anthology Stripped, released January 2012 and available for purchase at Amazon and also PS Books Lulu bookstore.
  • Here’s a nice Woman’s Leadership feature at Chatham University regarding the Into the Furnace residency in Braddock, Pa. “Into the Furnace: Chatham Lecturer Encourages Writers to Harness Braddock’s Creative Energy.“
  • I was on a panel at AWP Chicago: Anywhere USA: Representing Place in Fiction with Ladette Randolph, Ron Hansen, Eric Goodman, and Robert Vivian. Friday, March 2, 2012. 1:30, Willford C, Hilton Chicago, 3rd floor.
  • My short-short story “Microwave” was published in Cheek Teeth, September 2011.
  • Grateful to be included in Write Place, Write Time, Liberty Hardy’s lovely writing space project.
  • My manuscript “Good Dog” — took 3rd place in Split Oak Press’ chapbook competition, judged by Donald Ray Pollock. It was also one of five finalists in The Cupboard’s chapbook contest, judged by Michael Martone.
  • I’ve stepped into a new project in Pittsburgh as co-founder of “Into the Furnace,” a writing residency in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Here’s an article about it: “Gist of New Braddock Writing Residency to Come Clear in September,” Pop City, August 2011.
  • I also have an essay forthcoming in the anthology, Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie: Midwestern Writers on Food, edited by Peggy Wolff, University of Nebraska Press, Fall 2013.
  • Tereneh Mosley interviewed me at Farmhouse Magazine blog, “In the Writer’s Garden: Sherrie Flick,” August 27, 2011.
  • I received a Work of Art award for Artistic Vibrancy from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, June 2011.
  • Summer 2011 – I taught the inaugural offering of Food Writing at Chatham University.
  • I collaborated with former student Ben Gwin to create “A Novel Graduation Story” a blog post for Cathy Day’s  “The Big Thing.”
  • My little story “Little Dog” was published in Matter Press’ Journal of Compressed Arts.
  • “The Remembering”  was published in the April 2011 issue of Hot Metal Bridge. It will be part of their Best Of print edition.
  • In March 2011, I taught “A Big Class on Tiny Stories,” a master class for John Fulton’s Advanced Fiction Workshop at University of Massachusetts, Boston.
  • I served as Guest Editor at Smokelong Quarterly and selected Rachel Mangini’s excellent “Belly of a Fish.”
  • In April 2011 I read in Brownville, Nebraska for the  Wine, Writers & Song Festival.
  • Booth Journal published “Gravity” and “Sorrel,” February 2011.
  • The Winter issue of Ploughshares, edited by National Book Award winner Terrance Hayes  includes my story “The Lake.” (Here I am reading it out loud at Pittsburgh’s Small Press Festival 2010.)
  • Keeping the Wolves at Bay (Autumn House, 2010) includes my story “Good Dog.”
  • Los Angeles Review‘s issue No. 9 includes “Progress.”
  • March 2011 – I served as visiting writer at Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School, Midland, Pa.
  • The Huffington Post’s Short Story Symposium includes me along with T.C. Boyle, Blake Butler, and Justin Taylor.
  • I served as January 2011 term writer-in-residence at Salem College, Winston Salem, NC.
  • The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh City Paper published fine tributes to the Gist Street Reading Series‘ 10-year run, which ended in December 2010. (Nancy Krygowski and I co-founded the series.)
  • Rachel Whitaker e-interviewed me at Randall Brown’s Flashfiction.net.
  • “Little Dog”  was a finalist for the 2010 A Room of Her Own (AROHO) Orlando Prize for Sudden Fiction.
  • Six little short stories appeared in Drunken Boat, issue #12.
  • Reconsidering Happiness is up for order at University of Nebraska Press! and Amazon! And Powell’s. And many other independent bookstores around the country, too.
  • Tara Masih reviews Reconsidering Happiness at Gently Read Literature.
  • Christopher Zoukis reviews Reconsidering Happiness at Basil & Spice.
  • The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette featured my CMU class’ post-it note fiction, Sunday, April 18, 2010.
  • Reconsidering Happiness was  a semi-finalist for the 2010 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award!
  • Librarian Laura Crossett writing for the LIS Domain … “Just the sort of writerly novel about people figuring out their lives and their relationships that I love.”
  • Randall Brown reviewed Reconsidering Happiness in the Spring 2010 issue of The Los Angeles Review. Volume 7.
  • Along with Randall Brown, Lex Williford, Robert Shapard, and Kim Chinquee, on Friday, April 9 at AWP Denver -  The Rose Metal Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips From Editors, Teachers & Writers in the Field. (Here is audio of the event.)
  • Todd Stevens – pre-AWP questions here.
  • The Winter issue of University of New Hampshire’s alumni magazine features Reconsidering Happiness in the “In Their Own Words” section.
  • The Owls blog  – Emily Mitchell recommends Reconsidering Happiness as a favorite read of 2009.
  • Prosody radio interview on WYEP (91.3 FM) hosted by the excellent Ellen Wadey.
  • Clara Silverstein at the Boston Globe writes about Reconsidering Happiness and Ceres Bakery, the book’s fictional bakery (Penhallow Street), which also includes a recipe for the orange pound cake mentioned in Chapter 16.
  • Sherri Halgreen’s review of RH -  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  • Pittsburgh City Paper (where my face was nearly life-sized on its cover).
  • Interview/review by Nicolette Milholin – Montgomery News.
  • Rosalia Scalia interviewed me at Jen Michalski’s JMWW blog.
  • “Straight from the Heart in my Hip” – a lovely blog posting.
  • Clifford Garstang on Reconsidering Happiness: here.
  • The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field.
  • Jess Bouchard interviewed me for Randall Brown’s FlashFiction.net.
  • August 2006 the New York Times features my Pittsburgh neighborhood (the South Side Slopes) in its “National Perspectives” Real Estate section – my NYTimes debut …
  • October 2009 – Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine
  • From Dusk to Need: 25 Years of Flume Press Chapbooks.
  • “Record Albums” – September 2009 SmokeLong Quarterly.
  • September 3, 2009 – included in  Everyday Genius, guest edited by Michael Kimball.
  • My Life Story is on a postcard – Michael Kimball’s blog.