Lindsey Griffin of The Museum of Americana was kind enough to put this discussion about Scandamerican Domestic together with me last month. Lindsay is great — you should listen to her, not me…
New Fiction in Subtropics
I am very grateful to share that I have a new story in the most recent issue of Subtropics. I am very grateful to editor David Leavitt and his amazing staff for this.
2016 Lit Fest Craft Sessions
I am feeling very fortunate to be teaching several craft sessions for Lit Fest at The Lighthouse Writers Workshop here in Denver this coming month. I hope to see you there! The Vital Domestic Starts: 06/13/2016 Time(s): 2:00 to 4:30 PM It is often said that stories and novels centered on a domestic crisis must work double-time […]
Best Small Fictions 2016 Finalist
I’m thrilled to have my story “Up To And Including Our Limits” named among the Finalists in this year’s Best Small Fictions 2016. The story was originally published last winter in Hotel Amerika. This is the second year in a row I’ve had a story listed among the Finalists in this sweet anthology, edited by the […]
Spring 2016 LWW Class| Deborah Eisenberg & Joy Williams
I am so thrilled that the Lighthouse Writers Workshop has invited me to teach a course on two heroes of the American Short Story: Deborah Eisenberg & Joy Williams. I am so looking forward to this! Details are coming, but enrollment opens this coming week (February 15th) — join me in April and May as […]
Stories!
I am very happy to share that my story, “A Lesser Trouble,” came out in Issue 18 of Midwestern Gothic a few months ago! I am also very happy to share that I have four stories coming out in …
Two New Reviews of Scandamerican Domestic
Two really exceptional reviews of Scandamerican Domestic came out in the past few months: one by writer Amy Day Wilkinson for the Missouri Review and another by writer Brigit Kelly Young for Great Lakes Review. A particularly lovely note from Amy Day Wilkinson’s review: “What’s interesting is that the initial impulses in Merkner stories are often familiar parent impulses—flirt […]
Lighthouse Writers Workshop | Advanced Fiction Workshop
I am so looking forward to the Advanced Short Story Workshop I’ll be leading for the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, CO. The Lydia Davis Reading-as-a-Writer class that I was leading through December went incredibly well: the writers who took the class were just awesome, and we studied and engaged some of Davis’ best and most […]
Thoughts on Lydia Davis for Lit Matters
Very touched that Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, CO asked me to post a few reflections on their blog for their Lit Matters series, an annual series in which writers and readers express why supporting and elevating literary arts—the mission of Lighthouse Writers Workshop— is important to them. I reflected on the ways in which the compressed […]
Lighthouse Writers Workshops & Classes
My Fall 2015 Intermediate/Advanced Short Story workshop is now full at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, but I still have a few seats in my Reading as a Writer: Lydia Davis and the Art of Compression course — and I hope you’ll join us on Thursday nights starting in mid-November! The Lighthouse is an absolutely fantastic […]