Elephant Herd by Zhang Guixing, translated by Carlos Rojas, follows Shi Shicai as he travels in the rainforest searching for his uncle, the leader of a communist guerilla group. The novel jumps in time mid-paragraph, blurs humanity and nature, and includes elements of magical realism.…
How to Write Your Way to Carnegie Hall
Yes, you can get better at writing the same way you can get better at other skills. The key is deliberate practice.
Subs and Grinders: Submission Calls for January 2025
Productive Lunch Breaks with Story Street. Your calls for submission for Jan '25
Story Street Writers’ Goals and Hopes for 2025
The New Year is here, the earth is revving up to go around another try, and we’ve got to find something to make the trip worth it. Here’s some things that your Story Street neighbors are resolving, or else just hoping, that 2025 will bring.…
Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2025
A new year is not only about hangovers and personal fitness resolutions that you’ll burn out on in 3 weeks. It also means a chance to add even more books to your ever-growing pile of to-be-read books on your side table.…
Results of our Holidays on Story Street Contest
Happy New Year to our writing community! As a special treat to kick off the year we are proud to present to you our winning stories in the 2024 Holidays on Story Street flash fiction contest, now published on the Story Street Review.…
So, what do you do?
“So, what do you do?”
It takes me a moment to let the question sink in.
“I’m a writer,” I answer, the words sticking to the bridge of my mouth. I drop my gaze and lift it again, awaiting the dreaded “Oh, so what have you published?”…
We’re leaving Hemingway writing trends behind — and that’s a good thing
Modern English writing trends enforce a Hemingway dogma that is far out of step with human experience. Fortunately, we are leaving all that behind. I hope. I think we are. Aren’t we?
All of us amateur writers have heard things like:
- Don’t use purple prose (and, swear to God, if you rhyme, we’re getting pitchforks)
- Don’t use too many adverbs (you get one ‘‘-LY’’ token per page)
- Don’t ever use a big word if a smaller word will do
- Be concise
and be brief and be minimal - Cut anything unnecessary
These modern English writing trends result in manicured gardens.…
Story Street Writers’ Favorite Books of 2024
Alex Przybyla Recommends:
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes, translated by Edith Grossman
Don Quixote’s Bookshop.org link is here
I’ve never read Don Quixote before. Even in a year of fantastic books — honorable mentions are East of Eden and The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers, which both made me ugly-cry for their sheer beauty — Don Quixote takes the cake.…
Our Next Contest: Holidays on Story Street
Story Street Writers happily announce our Holiday Flash Fiction contest, with the theme: "The Aftermath".
The contest is free to enter, open for entries from Nov 15 through Nov 30