Sherrie Flick
Sherrie Flick lives in Pittsburgh. She’s the author of a novel and two short story collections. Her debut essay collection, Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press in Fall 2024. She is the recipient of a 2023 Creative Development Award from The Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation.
Writer. Editor.
Sherrie Flick lives in Pittsburgh. She’s the author of a novel, a chapbook, and two short story collections: Thank Your Lucky Stars and Whiskey, Etc. Recent work appears in Ploughshares, New England Review, Booth, Belt Magazine, and NPR’s Selected Shorts.
Co-editor for the 2023 Norton anthology Flash Fiction America, she also served as series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018 with guest editor Aimee Bender, and works as a senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly.
A 2023 Creative Development Award recipient from The Heinz Endowments, she has also received fellowships from The Creative Nonfiction Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist, her debut essay collection, is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press in Fall 2024. Autumn House Press will publish her short story collection Breaking in 2025.
Sherrie is a senior lecturer at Chatham University, teaches a variety of online classes for the general public, works as a manuscript consultant for Randolph Lundine, and frequently offers writing programs in unlikely urban spaces for the Pittsburgh Office for Public Art.
Read My Books
Flash Fiction America: 73 Very Short Stories
Full of wit and humor, readers will find themselves immersed in big worlds contained in short narratives. From a woman who gets more than what she bargained for to a cowboy down on his luck, these complex stories serve up love and loss, longing and heartbreak, and cruelty and tenderness in poetic images and the most satisfying of moments.
James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, John Dufresne, co-editors
W. W. Norton, 2023
Anthology, flash fiction
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Full of wit and humor, readers will find themselves immersed in big worlds contained in short narratives. From a woman who gets more than what she bargained for to a cowboy down on his luck, these complex stories serve up love and loss, longing and heartbreak, and cruelty and tenderness in poetic images and the most satisfying of moments.
Sherrie Flick
Autumn House Press, 2018
The Best Small Fictions 2018
The anthology features both seasoned and emerging authors who work in flash, micro fiction, prose poetry, haibun, and other hybrid forms. Tara L. Masih founded the series. This edition includes work by Lydia Davis, Rumaan Alam, Diane Williams, Kathy Fish, Michael Parker, Meg Pokrass, Deb Olin Unferth, and Desiree Cooper.
Sherrie Flick, series editor – Aimee Bender, guest editor
Braddock Avenue Books, 2018
Anthology, flash fiction
Whiskey, Etc.: (Short) Short Stories
These stories are funny and serious, outrageous and completely familiar. Readers will meet a cast of characters ranging from a woman who cleans her soon-to-be ex-husband’s house to a woman who seduces her paperboy. These stories are short, but leave readers completely satisfied and reveling in the complexity of our strange lives.
Sherrie Flick
Autumn House Press, 2016
Short Stories
Reconsidering Happiness: A Novel
Reconsidering Happiness: A Novel
In a story of lust and longing, love and loneliness, disappointment and desire stretching from the East Coast to the West, two pioneering women navigate through secrets, lies, decisions, and compromises. They crisscross each other’s lives like highways on a map, always escaping, flying toward a dreamt future, and trying to avoid the charted course.
Sherrie Flick
University of Nebraska Press, 2009
Fiction
I Call This Flirting
After years of reading Sherrie Flick’s short short stories in literary magazines across the country, it is a delight to see the best of them all together in her first collection, I Call This Flirting, winner of the Flume Press Chapbook Prize. The chapbook size is perfect for short shorts – the collection echoes the beautiful brevity of the form, yet Flirting also is plenty long enough for Flick to create an arc of mood and emotion that develops much like a novel. Initially, I’d say the theme of Flirting is love, but Flick’s stories are far from candy hearts and Valentines. Sometimes love is sweet, but more often love ends chewed up, spit out and ground into the sidewalk.
Sherrie Flick
(Flume Press, 2004)
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Flick’s new collection brims with wit and wisdom, love and disaster, and the best kinds of surprises.
These fifty stories have an astonishing scope, as vast as our American States. Sherrie Flick seems to know something about all of us, and she’s telling our secrets.
Sherrie Flick is, like every great writer, a sublime noticer. The rich bounty of stories in Thank Your Lucky Stars is a testament to the raw power of her attention, her imagination, and her compassion. Her range is astonishing. She veers from realism to fabulism to naturalism, from crickets to cowboys to fake farmers, with special commendations for those ready and willing to risk their heart for a bit more out of life.