Sherrie Flick

Events & News

  • I have six little short stories in Drunken Boat’s issue #12; it just went live September 7, 2010. Check it out.
  • On Saturday, September 25th I’ll read as part of Pittsburgh’s amazing Small Press Festival, along with Terrance Hayes and others.
  • Monday, September 27th is “Authors’ Night” at the Gibsonia Library with me, Nancy Krygowski, and Lois Williams, 7pm.
  • Come out to Braddock for “Wood-Fired Words” on Saturday, October 2. Featured writers include Joseph Bathanti and JC Hallman. Plus, wood-fired pizza, art, music, and more. Unsmoke Systems, Braddock, Pa. 7:30pm.
  • I’m representing Rose Metal Press on November 11 at the Barrelhouse Reading Series, Wonderland Ballroom, Columbia Heights, Washington, DC along with Adam Golaski.
  • In January 2011, I’ll be the January term writer-in-residence at Salem College, NC and will teach an intensive flash fiction course while there.
  • I teach in Chatham University’s low-residency MFA program. I’ll be leading workshops in Fall and Spring 2010/11 in their on-the-ground MFA program as well.
  • I also teach undergraduate writing classes at University of Pittsburgh and taught a great class at Carnegie Mellon University, spring 2010.
  • My novel Reconsidering Happiness is up for order at University of Nebraska Press! and Amazon! And Powell’s. Hurray! It’s available at many independent bookstores around the country, too.
  • Tara Masih reviews Reconsidering Happiness at Gently Read Literature.
  • Christopher Zoukis reviews Reconsidering Happiness at Basil & Spice. Nice.
  • The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a feature highlighting my post-it note fiction project on “The Next Page,” Sunday, April 18, 2010. It includes work by my Carnegie Mellon University students.
  • Reconsidering Happiness was a semi-finalist for the 2010 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.
  • Librarian Laura Crossett writing for the LIS Domain had this to say about Reconsidering Happiness … “Just the sort of writerly novel about people figuring out their lives and their relationships that I love.”
  • Randall Brown reviews Reconsidering Happiness in the Spring 2010 issue of The Los Angeles Review. Volume 7.
  • Reconsidering Happiness was a March 2010 bestseller at University of Nebraska Press!
  • Along with Randall Brown, Lex Williford, Robert Shapard, and Kim Chinquee, on Friday, April 9 at AWP Denver, I participated in 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 asked some 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.
  • I reviewed Josh Weil’s The New Valley in the Winter issue of Ploughshares. It’s a fantastic collection of linked novellas. Buy it now.
  • Over at The Owls blog Emily Mitchell recommends Reconsidering Happiness as a favorite read of 2009.
  • Here’s a link to a Prosody radio interview on WYEP (91.3 FM) hosted by the excellent Ellen Wadey.
  • Clara Silverstein wrote a wonderful piece for the Boston Globe about Reconsidering Happiness and Ceres Bakery, the book’s fictional bakery (Penhallow Street), which also included a recipe for the orange pound cake mentioned in Chapter 16.
  • Here’s a really great review of the novel from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
  • And an interview in Pittsburgh City Paper, where my face was nearly life-sized on its cover.
  • A nice, little interview/review by Nicolette Milholin in Montgomery News.
  • The wonderful Rosalia Scalia asked me some interesting questions at Jen Michalski’s JMWW blog.
  • A lovely blog posting about Reconsidering Happiness from “Straight from the Heart in my Hip.”
  • Clifford Garstang had some nice things to say about Reconsidering Happiness: here.
  • The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field. Available now! It’s getting great reviews!
  • Jess Bouchard guest interviewed me for Randall Brown’s great blog FlashFiction.net.
  • In August 2006 the New York Times featured my Pittsburgh neighborhood (the South Side Slopes) in its “National Perspectives” Real Estate section. Beth Greenfield interviewed me, and I made my NYTimes debut …
  • I have short-short stories featured in the October 2009 issue of Flash: The International Short Short Story Magazine and more flash fictions forthcoming in Ploughshares and Los Angeles Review and included in the forthcoming anthology From Dusk to Need: 25 Years of Flume Press Chapbooks.
  • My flash fiction story “Record Albums” is included in September 2009’s SmokeLong Quarterly.
  • I have a piece of tiny flash fiction in September 3rd, 2009 Everyday Genius, guest edited by Michael Kimball.
  • Don’t forget to peruse isReads to see the Pittsburgh issue. Writing posted all over the city. I (willingly and with great enthusiasm) lost many brain cells helping organize this project with Adam Atkinson of Open Thread, Adam Robinson of Publishing Genius, and Peter Cole of Keyhole. Spring 2010 issue coming soon!
  • My Life Story is on a postcard at Michael Kimball’s blog.
  • I have a tiny flash fiction in Issue 5, Fall 2008 of Keyhole Magazine: the handwritten issue and also a longer tiny flash fiction in Issue 6, guest-edited by William Walsh.
  • Keyhole #6 has also included some bonus online tracks. Read some of my post-it note stories here.