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Mapping Short Story Month: An ALU Infographic

No, they’re not stories that are mad at you: short story collections offer a window into ideas, themes, and feelings, as well as providing an author the chance to flex their writerly muscle, honing every paragraph down to perfect sentences; sentences to perfect words. As Andrew Forbes wrote of short stories on his piece about Anna Leventhal’s Sweet Affliction, short stories are “truth minus the sprawl.”

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No, they’re not stories that are mad at you: short story collections offer a window into ideas, themes, and feelings, as well as providing an author the chance to flex their writerly muscle, honing every paragraph down to perfect sentences; sentences to perfect words. As Andrew Forbes wrote of short stories on his piece about Anna Leventhal’s Sweet Affliction, short stories are “truth minus the sprawl.”We’ve compiled wonderful short story collections with similar thematic elements in this rather Wonderbread-ish infographic below. All of the books featured are listed in the index below the image. Happy reading, and happy short story month!
by Kathy Page (Biblioasis)
by Elisabeth de Mariaffi (Invisible Publishing)
by R.W. Gray (NeWest Press)
by Matt Rader (Nightwood Editions)
by Spencer Gordon (Coach House Books)
by Elaine McCluskey (Gaspereau Press)
by Greg Bechtel (Freehand Books)
by Alissa York (Arbeiter Ring Publishing)
by R.W. Dunlop (Now or Never Publishing)
by Kate Cayley (Pedlar Press)
by Megan Gail Coles (Creative Book Publishing)
by Bill Haugland (Vehicule Press)
by Jennifer Stone (Signature Editions)
by Mike Spry (Insomniac Press)
by Sharon Abron Drache (Inanna Publications)
by Joan Clark (Goose Lane Editions)
by Jon Paul Fiorentino (Anvil Press)
by Julie Paul (Brindle & Glass)
by Chris Eaton (ECW Press)

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