I finally have gotten around to last week's assignment to listen to a webinar. I found a podcast on the California Infopeople by Michael Cart about Short Stories. http://www.infoblog.infopeople.org/2010/01/michael-cart-offers-a-salute-to-short-stories/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+infopeople+%28Infoblog%29 Another staff member and I did a presentation on Short Stories at our Reader's Advisory Conference last fall, so I thought it would be interesting to hear what Mr. Cart had to say.
Mr. Cart had many of the same observations about short stories that we did in our presentation, but his angle was short stories for young adults, so, in that respect, much different that ours in terms of audience and authors. He talked about thematic compilations of stories, as well as compilations by genre, and interlinked stories. A new term for me, in terms of a genre, was "speculative fiction." This apparently covers horror, fantasy, science fiction, etc.
The point of our presentation about short stories was that there is a new generation of great writers writing very fine fiction in the short story form. And, according to Mr. Cart, this is true for writers of young adult fiction also. I enjoyed his presentation, and have more authors and titles to add to my list of don't miss collections of short stories!
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