Short Stories Night

Join us for an exciting lineup of writers sharing their stories.

We’ll be featuring local authors reading from their newest, latest, and forthcoming collection of Short Stories…

• In This Ravishing World
• Island Rule
• Out There
• What We Fed to the Manticore
• The Beadworkers

This event is sponsored by Telegraph Hill Arts and Literature.

You can bring your own drinks, including alcohol. #TelHiLit does not provide cups or bottle openers, so ensure you bring your own utensils.

Telegraph Hill Arts and Literature presents writers, musicians, and other artists, while giving back to the creative community and to our neighbors. (https://telhilit.org)

Nina Schuyler's novel, AFTERWORD, won the PenCraft Seasonal Book Award for Fiction-Science Fiction and is a Foreword INDIE Finalist in Fiction and Science Fiction. It was also named a Top 100 Notable Book by Shelf Unbound. Her short story collection, IN THIS RAVISHING WORLD, won the W.S. Porter Prize and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature and will be published on July 2, 2024. Her novel, THE TRANSLATOR, was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and her novel, THE PAINTING, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. She teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies and The Writing Salon and Book Passage.

Katie M. Flynn is a writer, editor, and educator based in San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Tin House, and Tor.com, among other publications. She’s been awarded Colorado Review’s Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction and the Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her first novel, The Companions, came out in March 2020, and opens during a prolonged pandemic where the living can’t go out, but the dead can come in as companions. Her interlinked collection of short stories, Island Rule, is out now from Gallery Books.

Kate Folk is the author of Out There, a finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, and The Baffler, among others. A recent Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she’s also received support for her writing from MacDowell, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay AiR. Her debut novel, Sky Daddy, is forthcoming from Random House in 2025. Originally from Iowa, she lives in San Francisco.

Talia Lakshmi Kolluri is a mixed South Asian American writer from Northern California. Her debut collection of short stories, What We Fed to the Manticore (Tin House 2022), was a finalist for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the 2023 Northern California Book Award for Fiction; it was longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize, and the 2023 Pen/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection, and was selected as a 2023 ALA RUSA Notable Book. It’s available now wherever books are sold. Her short fiction has been published in Ecotone, Southern Humanities Review, The Common, One Story, Orion, and others.

Beth Piatote is the author of two books, including The Beadworkers: Stories, which was long-listed for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Aspen Words Literary Prize; and numerous other works in journals and anthologies. She is a Nez Perce writer, playwright, and scholar, and an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley.