What makes a great short story collection? In Debutiful’s latest Q&A series, Inside the Collection, short story writers will take readers through their writing, editing, and sequencing of their debut short story collection.
In The Age of Calamities, writer Senaa Ahmad gives readers a collection of mind-bending, absurdist, funny, and speculative short stories. Each story plays with tropes and structure in a brilliant way. Prior to releasing her debut, her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Best Canadian Stories. Ahmad has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, the Speculative Literature Foundation, and the Carl Brandon Society’s Octavia Butler Scholarship.
In our first “Inside the Collection” Q&A, Ahmad dissects her debut short story collection, The Age of Calamities.
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