Sherrie Flick
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Sherrie Flickis an American fiction writer whose work has appeared inPrairie Schooner,North American Review,Quarterly West,Puerto del Sol,Weave Magazine,Quick Fiction,Lit Hub,[1]and other literary magazines. Flick is also a regular contributor to thePittsburgh Post-Gazette,which publishes her column "In a Writer's Urban Garden."[2]In 2021, her work was performed by actressMarin IrelandforSymphony Space.[3]
She has received artist residencies from theUcross Foundation,Atlantic Center for the Arts,andVirginia Center for the Creative Arts,and a Tennessee Williams Fellowship from theSewanee Writers' Conference.She received a 2007 individual artist fellowship from thePennsylvania Council on the Arts.
For ten years Flick was artistic director and co-founder of the Gist Street Reading Series inPittsburgh,Pennsylvania.She is a senior lecturer in the Food Studies program and the MFA creative writing program at theChatham University,serves as senior editor atSmokeLong Quarterly,[4]is a former series editor ofThe Best Small Fictionsseries, and is the co-editor for W. W. Norton’sFlash Fiction America.She has taught interdisciplinary writing workshops in arts institutions, including theCarnegie Museum of Artand Silver Eye Center for Photography, and curates literary programs in alternative settings like Wood-Fired Words in Braddock, Pennsylvania, and for the Pittsburgh Office for Public Art.[5]
Awards
[edit]- 2009 VCU First Novelist AwardSemi-finalistforReconsidering Happiness
- 2016CCM EntropyBest Fiction Book of 2016 forWhiskey, Etc.
- 2017INDIES Foreword Bronze Prize for the Short StoryforWhiskey, Etc.
Works
[edit]Books:
- I Call This Flirting,short stories(Chico: Flume Press, 2004).
- Reconsidering Happiness,novel(Lincoln:University of Nebraska Press,2009).
- Whiskey, Etc.,short stories(Plano: Queen's Ferry Press, 2016).[6]
- Thank Your Lucky Stars,short stories(Pittsburgh:Autumn House Press,2018).
- Flash Fiction America: 73 very short stories,Co-Editor (W.W. Norton, 2023)
Nonfiction:
- "Caretaker, Murderer, Undertaker: A Plan B Essay,"essayinPloughshares125 (Winter 2014-2015)
- "Talk Right" inWestern Pennsylvania HistoryMagazine (Summer 2021)
References
[edit]- ^""What It Would Look Like"".Literary Hub.2018-08-31.Retrieved2021-10-01.
- ^"Yes, okra grows in Pittsburgh — and makes a great South Carolina stew".Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.Retrieved2021-10-01.
- ^"Virtual Selected Shorts: Choose Your Own Reality".Symphony Space.Retrieved2021-10-01.
- ^"Staff | SmokeLong Quarterly".Retrieved2021-10-01.
- ^"Downtown Walk and Write with Sherrie Flick".Office of Public Art.Retrieved2021-10-01.
- ^"The Best Short Stories from the Heart of the Country".Literary Hub.2019-04-04.Retrieved2021-10-01.
Sources
[edit]External links
[edit]- Sherrie Flick
- Silver Spur Cafe,short story inSmokeLong Quarterly,September 15, 2006
- Shadows,short story inSmokeLong Quarterly,December 15, 2008
- Food Studies Program, Chatham University
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