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The Austin-based literary magazine
American Short Fiction has been around for thirty years, and periodically puts out an ‘Emerging Writers’ issue, comprising new short works from promising but not yet well-known authors. Their latest issue (number 72) is one such edition, and for the first time it focuses on celebrating emerging Black writers.
American Short Fiction asked author Danielle Evans, whose novella and story collection
The Office of Historical Corrections was released to acclaim last year, to guest edit the new issue. “I’m usually a ‘contributing editor’ for the magazine, which is a very fancy title for meaning I just send them stories that I come across and for people who I think are promising writers, I encourage them to submit to the magazine,” Evans says. “But this time I got to actually pick the work for the issue, so it’s exciting.