December’s Table of Contents

From the Editors

Welcome to the December issue of Every Day Fiction. We’ve put together quite a line up for you, with work from old favourites like Celeste Goschen, Kevin Shamel, and Steve Goble, as well as new authors like Fred Warren and our Christmas Eve piece, “A Christmas Toast”, by Frank Zubek. For Christmas Day, we have “Kanti Chooses Santa” by Sarah Hilary.

For Readers:

Author interviews are back! September’s most-read author was Greta Igl for her story “Free“. Because we weren’t able to complete her interview in October, we are publishing it on the 1st of December. October’s most read story was “Life Without Jerry” by Celeste Goschen, and we are excited to announce that her interview will be airing on the 15th.

For Writers:

As EDF has become well known in the literary community, the quality of the submissions has greatly improved–so much so that we’ve decided to nominate some of our best stories for the Pushcart Prize. This prestigious prize has been awarded every year since 1976 to the best works in the small press. Every year, winners are collected and republished in their anthology.

With over 400 stories published, choosing the nominees was an incredibly difficult task for us. We agonized over our decisions, and in the end chose stories that we felt stood out, but that had also done well with readers (read: scored highly in the star rating system).

The nominees are:

ONE BRIGHT MOMENT • by Joel Willans

LARRY LEGEND • by Jason Stout

WITHOUT NAPIER • by Michael Ehart

SPRING MELT • by Gay Degani

WING MENDING • by Dave Macpherson

WITH LOVE FOREVER YOURS • by Alex Moisi

Congratulations to the nominees, and we hope they win!

Also, the EDF Author forums are rocking. If you’d like a forum of your own, please contact us.

Finally, the EDF Writing group is picking up more members than ever. If you’d like to be a part of the group, please contact us.

December’s Table of Contents