Short Stories
The Our World Committee on Kiawah Island has sponsored two mini-course sessions this spring. The topic has been, both times, short stories. Professor Emeritus Paula Feldman of the University of South Carolina has been the leader. For her first session, participants read stories based on nature, and Feldman donated the proceeds to the Audobon Society. She presented the check at a showing of Pam Cohen’s photographs at the Wells Gallery located at the Sanctuary Hotel, Kiawah Island. A picture is attached.
I feature these sessions because I have never mentioned short stories on the blog. Don’t know why, but maybe the time is right. “The Worn Path” by Eudora Welty was a favorite when we took the second session based on Southern writers. Feldman presented the story and commented that it is almost a perfect short story based on the criteria used to describe the genre. You may be interested in more Eudora Welty short stories.
Other well-known short story writers are Flannary O’Connor, Edgar Allen Poe, Alice Munro, Ray Bradbury and Zora Neale Hurston.
AI suggests current writers of short stories as follows: Jhumpa Lahiri, George Saunders, Lorrie Moore, Lydia Davis and Jean Stafford.
You might want to look at either anthologies (to sample the work of a variety of writers) or collections by just one author. I have featured two recent examples:
