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Emily Roth

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librarian and fiction writer. winner of Reflex Fiction’s winter 2022 flash fiction competition, other words in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Masters Review, and more.

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Thank you @havehashad.com!! my first published story in uhhhhh a while 💀

21.01.2025 18:58 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1

So honored to have a story on the list!

30.09.2023 01:36 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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The Summer of Barbenheimer A Selected History of Art Under Constraint

I uh, went a lil too hard and wrote eight mini-essays about Barbenheimer, Satoshi Kon, Dmitri Shostakovich, and more. This one was a lot of work but it was the only way to get this tangled mess of ideas out of my head. Hope you enjoy it!

06.09.2023 14:44 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Levels of Voice I often talk about writers needing to be Jacks (or Jills) of all trades. Yes, we are in the business of creating stories that make people think or feel or laugh. But in order to do that successfully w...

My September newsletter is all about the levels of voice - author / narrative / character - how to shift between them, how to harness different voices etc. There's even a diagram and everything...

prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/p/levels-of-...

04.09.2023 09:50 👍 34 🔁 15 💬 5 📌 1

Super thought-provoking, thank you!! I love the idea of a story as a prism.

07.08.2023 13:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hiroshima A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.

so now that everyone has seen oppenheimer might i recommend some 'light' reading by john hersey?

02.08.2023 16:22 👍 54 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 7

I absolutely loved this new story by Kathy Fish!

03.08.2023 14:38 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Here’s one of my stories from SmokeLong Quarterly! https://www.smokelong.com/stories/when-the-fire-goes-out/

24.07.2023 23:25 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1