Robin Black‘s collection If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This (Random House, 2010) was a finalist in the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. She is at work on her first novel and will be the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bryn Mawr College in 2012. There was more good work than I could [...]

I was asked to try to outsmart this crowd-sourced aesthetic awards system. And so no offense super-fave stories, but I thought of you as the enemy. That said, many of the stories I selected had already accumulated little blue stars, and I was glad to know there were others who had also read and appreciated the stories below.

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Now, our first guest editor’s identity can be revealed: it is none less than our very own Meg Pokrass, author of Damn Sure Right, host of the Fictionaut Five interview series, and editor for Blip Magazine. Here are the stories that caught Meg’s Editor’s Eye over the last two weeks.

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We’re excited to announce Editor’s Eye, a new blog series that aims to highlight noteworthy work that might have slipped through the cracks of Fictionaut’s automated list of recommended stories.