The short story form isn’t just a springboard to longer-form writing; for many authors, it’s the perfect small canvas on which to explore, experiment, and let imaginations run wild. In this session, we’ll hear from three skilled practitioners of the genre. Noy Holland has been perfecting her short story craft for the past two decades. Her new collection, I Was Trying to Describe What It Feels Like, gathers a dozen previously published stories with thirty new ones, ranging in length from a single page to a novella, with lyrical language walking the line between poetry and prose. Debut author K. L. Pereira is also interested in the spaces between; her collection, A Dream Between Two Rivers, uses the tropes of fairy and folk tales to illuminate the experiences of those who inhabit the edges and the dark places. And Edie Meidav, the author of three novels, ranges widely in her collection Kingdom of the Young, which “glides among an impressive breadth of storytelling modes with warmth and easy brilliance,” according to a starred review from Kirkus. Our host for this session is Marjan Kamali, author of the novel Together Tea and one of the curators of the Arlington Author Salon.
