Welcome to Avery.
Avery is an anthology of fiction — fiction, because, in a world made meaningful by storytelling of all kinds, it's still what moves us most.
Perhaps you've noticed that Avery also does something an anthology of fiction isn’t supposed to do: it publishes stories that haven't been published anywhere else. Our stories are here, now, to be read, now. We — Avery's readers, writers, and contributors — are deciding what’s worthwhile and what’s necessary. You needn't wait for the Best Best Best of the Year — we've got it for you in every issue.
So what is worthwhile? What kind of stories do we read? Donald Barthelme once said the only criteria on which to judge a story is: Does it knock your socks off? We like that, but we don’t think it’s entirely accurate. We like stories that knock our socks off, but we also like stories that slip our socks off gently, or rip our socks off unexpectedly, or tug and tug at our socks until they’re lying on the floor beside the bed. The important thing is that by the end of the story our feet are bare.
We plan to publish two anthologies per year. We hope that writers will find their way to us, so that readers can find their way to them.
Averies 1, 2, and 3 were made possible by the generosity of many people, who donated anywhere from $20 to $500. To everyone who donated, thank you!
And we still need your help. We live paycheck to paycheck here at Avery, so every little bit helps. A $50 donation, for example, goes far. Really.
We’d like to thank Manhattan College for their very generous donation. Because of them, we were able to print Avery 4.
If you’d like to donate, please send checks payable to Avery House Press to the following address:
Avery House Press, Inc.
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Avery is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization. All donations are tax deductable.
Stephanie Fiorelli is a graduate of John Carroll University’s MA program and currently teaches writing at Manhattan College. Her work has appeared in Poets and Writers. She lives in New York City.
Adam Koehler is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Composition Program at Manhattan College, where he teaches writing. He lives in New York City.
Emma Straub was the 2008-2009 Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she also received her MFA. Her work has appeared in The Saint Ann's Review, The Boston Review, flatmanCROOKED, Barrelhouse, and other journals. More information can be found at www.emmastraub.net.
Nicolette Kittinger (Assistant Editor) is an MFA student in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago; Assistant Producer of Windy City Story Slam, a reading competition; and a freelance Google ad copywriter. Her work has appeared in anthologies, nonfiction glossies, online mags that have gone under, and the tops of web searches everywhere.
Email us at info@averyanthology.org for more information.
Michael Fusco owns and operates his own firm, Michael Fusco Design, in addition to being the art director for Pegasus Books. Michael designs books, albums, logos, and identities, many of which can be seen at his website, www.michaelfuscodesign.com, and on www.m-plus-e.com.