Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur So Young Koo An interwoven quilt of myths, hallucinations, and personal tales, Angela Hur’s novel Folklorn (Erewhon, 2021) follows the physical and spiritual journey of her fictional character, Elsa Park. This is Hur’s second novel, coming fourteen years after her debut, The Queens of K-Town. Hur’s novels explore various Korean American experiences focusing specifically on her female characters’ homecoming and rediscovery of the things and peop

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The World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest Explained Hello! In this video you’ll find a brief but compelling lecture from Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize winner, professor of fiction at Florida State University, and standing judge of Southeast Review’s annual fiction competition, the World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest. Here, Professor Butler remarks upon what he sees as the most crucial components of not only short-short stories but also fiction in general. Anyone inte