Fiction Writing | Sherrie Flick

Books

Flash Fiction America:
73 Very Short Stories
Edited by James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne
Foreword by Danielle Evans
W. W. Norton, February 2023
Available at your local independent bookstore, Bookshop, Amazon, and elsewhere.

“These deeply original stories create a mesmerizing kaleidoscope of experiences.” —Booklist

“Thomas, Flick, and Dufresne’s elegant anthology brims with economical, well-crafted prose … [Flash Fiction America] showcases a multitude of talent.” —Publishers Weekly

Thank Your Lucky Stars
Short Stories
Autumn House Press, September 2018
Available at Amazon and The University of Chicago Press, and many fine independent bookstores, including City of Asylum.

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“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.” —Dan Chaon

“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 also 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. I was reminded of so many of my favorite story writers, from Gracy Paley to Aimee Bender to Raymond Carver. But mostly, I was reminded of Sherrie Flick.” —Steve Almond

“At the end of the first story, when a woman “thanked her lucky stars,” I knew I was in for a wild ride through stories where “happiness seems possible” in spite of bleak and changing landscapes filled with puppies and cats, cigarettes, whiskey and wine, longing and desperation, and men—oh those men—and yes, love. Read Sherrie Flick’s collection. You will thank your own lucky stars.” —Pamela Painter

“Whether a character is buying corn, or having their photograph taken with an authentic cowboy, or choosing a new suit, you never know what will happen next in a Sherrie Flick story. Her new collection brims with wit and wisdom, love and disaster, and the best kinds of surprises. Each of her stories is a richly imagined little world. I loved visiting every one of them.” —Margot Livesey

Whiskey, Etc.
Short (Short) Stories
Autumn House Press, 2016

Available at Amazon, White Whale Bookstore, City Books, Caliban Books. Elliott Bay Book Company, IndieBound and, many other independent book stores around the country. Available for commercial distribution through The University of Chicago Press.

Named to “Best of 2016: Best Fiction Books” List —Entropy

2016 Foreword INDIES bronze award for best short story collection

Finalist for the Phillip McMath Post-Publication Book Award and the Eric Hoffer Book Award

Named a 2016 notable title by Pittsburgh City Paper

“Flick’s collection keeps readers engaged with her crisp and lyrical writing. Her eye for detail is poetically rendered, and she turns the mundane into the beautiful.” —Megan Douglas, Barrelhouse Reviews

“Flick nails the ending every time.” —Kelly Lynn Thomas, Eleventh Stack, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

“Whiskey, Etc. is a sharp-edged, intelligent, brilliantly written collection of short shorts by a writer at the very top of her game.” —Kathy Fish

“…deliciously intoxicating.” —Kim Chinquee

“As if dining on small plates of delicious food, doubters of brevity’s value will leave Whiskey, Etc. feeling pleasantly full.” —Fred Shaw, Pittsburgh City Paper

“Flick is an expert at finding the unnerving, the unusual, the exceptional in life’s regularities.” —JoAnna Novak, DIAGRAM

“We trust Flick’s voice to bring us the news, for better or worse, but always the truth, like it or not. And like it we do.” —Robert Shapard & James Thomas

“…quirky characters in swift, bold gestures.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Sherrie Flick is one of the best and more prolific short writers publishing today.” —Michael Czyzniejewski, Story366

Reconsider Happiness Reconsidering Happiness: A Novel
Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, 2009

Available at Nebraska Press, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Powell’s.

I Call This Flirting

I Call This Flirting
Flash fiction chapbook, Flume Press, 2004

Available at Amazon

Anthologies

The Best Small Fictions Best Small Fictions 2018
Braddock Avenue Books, series ed. Sherrie Flick, guest ed. Aimee Bender
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Available at SPD

Short-form Creative Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury) eds. H.K. Hummel and Stephanie Lenox

Available at Bloomsbury

New Micro: Exceptionally Short Stories (W.W. Norton) eds. James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro

Available at Amazon

Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales From 100 Word Story (Outpost19 Books, 2018) eds. Grant Faulkner, Lynn Mundell, and Beret Olsen.

Available at Outpost19 Books

Short on Sugar High on Honey: Micro Love Stories (Flash: The International Short Story Press, 2018) eds. Tom Hazuka and Mark Budman, Peter Blair, and Ashley Chantler