Sherrie Flick is an American fiction writer whose work has appeared in ''

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'', ''Quarterly West'', ''

Puerto del Sol ''Puerto del Sol'' is a non-profit literary magazine run by faculty and graduate students from the MFA program in Creative Writing Weave Magazine ''Weave Magazine'' was an American literary magazine based in Pittsburgh. It was established in order to remedy a perceived gender imbalance in contemporary literary publishing. ''Weave'' published literary fiction, poetry, nonfiction, reviews and ...

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Quick Fiction ''Quick Fiction'' was a contemporary bi-annual literary magazine published in the United States. The journal's publishing focus was on the narrative prose poem/flash fiction, and they proved instrumental in providing both newer and veteran writers ...

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, and other literary magazines. Flick is also a regular contributor to the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', which publishes her column "In a Writer's Urban Garden." In 2021, her work was performed by actress

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for

Symphony Space Symphony Space, founded by Isaiah Sheffer and Allan Miller, is a multi-disciplinary performing arts organization at 2537 Broadway on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Performances take place in the 760-seat Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (also called Pe ...

. She has received artist residencies from the

Ucross Foundation The Ucross Foundation, located in Ucross, Wyoming, is a nonprofit organization that operates an internationally known retreat for visual artists, writers, composers, and choreographers working in all creative disciplines. History Founded in 1981 ...

Atlantic Center for the Arts Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA) is a nonprofit, interdisciplinary artists’ community and arts education facility providing artists an opportunity to work and collaborate with contemporary artists in the fields of composing, visual, litera ...

, and

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) is a residential artist community in Amherst, Virginia, USA. Since 1971, VCCA has offered residencies of varying lengths with flexible scheduling for international artists, writers, and composers at ...

, and a Tennessee Williams Fellowship from the

Sewanee Writers' Conference The Sewanee Writers' Conference is a writers' conference held every summer on the campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. The conference was started in 1989 by founding director Wyatt Prunty and the current director is Leah S ...

. She received a 2007 individual artist fellowship from the

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. For ten years Flick was artistic director and co-founder of the Gist Street Reading Series in

Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Wester ...

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. She is a senior lecturer in the Food Studies program and the MFA creative writing program at the

Chatham University Chatham University is a private university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally founded as a women's college, it began enrolling men in undergraduate programs in 2015. It enrolls about 2,110 students, including 1,002 undergraduate students an ...

, serves as senior editor at ''SmokeLong Quarterly'', is a former series editor of ''The Best Small Fictions'' series, and is the co-editor for W. W. Norton’
''Flash Fiction America''
She has taught interdisciplinary writing workshops in arts institutions, including the

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and Silver Eye Center for Photography, and curates literary programs in alternative settings like Wood-Fired Words in Braddock, Pennsylvania, and for the Pittsburgh Office for Public Art.

Awards

* ''2009 VCU First Novelist Award''

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Reconsidering Happiness
* 2016 ''CCM Entropy'' Best Fiction Book of 2016 fo
Whiskey, Etc.
* 2017
INDIES Foreword Bronze Prize for the Short Story
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Whiskey, Etc.

Works

Books: *''I Call This Flirting'',

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

(Chico: Flume Press, 2004). * ''Reconsidering Happiness'',

novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...

(

Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincoln ...

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, 2009). * ''Whiskey, Etc.'',

(Plano: Queen's Ferry Press, 2016). * ''Thank Your Lucky Stars'',

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Autumn House Press Autumn House Press is an independent, non-profit literary publishing company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. History Autumn House Press was founded in 1998 by Michael Simms when prominent American publishers, driven by e ...

, 2018).
''Flash Fiction America: 73 very short stories''
Co-Editor (W.W. Norton, 2023) Nonfiction: *
Caretaker, Murderer, Undertaker: A Plan B Essay
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essay An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal a ...

in ''

Ploughshares ''Ploughshares'' is an American literary journal established in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, ''Ploughshares'' has been based at Emerson College in Boston. ...

'' 125 (Winter 2014-2015) * "Talk Right" i
''Western Pennsylvania History'' Magazine (Summer 2021)

References

Sources

* ''

Contemporary Authors Online ''Contemporary Authors'' is a reference work which has been published by Gale since 1962. It provides short biographies and bibliographies of contemporary and near-contemporary writers. ''Contemporary Authors'' does not have selective inclusion cr ...

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, 2008.

External links

Sherrie Flick

Silver Spur Cafe
short story in '' SmokeLong Quarterly'', September 15, 2006
Shadows
short story in '' SmokeLong Quarterly'', December 15, 2008
Food Studies Program, Chatham University
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