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Valente, Catherynne M. This Is My Letter to the World: The Omikuji Project, Cycle One. Kinsenka Press, 2010.
This anthology collects the first two years of Valente's self-produced Omikuji Project, in which she sends subscribers, by email or by post, a short story written just for them every month. I was a member of the Project for a year that overlapped with the stories collected here, and as such I contributed a sentence to the member-written introduction, but I can't remember which one it was at this point, which seems fitting. The stories are opened by art by project members, and closed by an excerpt from the personal note Valente sends with each story.
( This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me… )
I think, having read a fair amount of Valente's conventionally published stories, that these hold their own against the more readily available ones, and that this collection is as good a place as any to start, whether on Valente or on her short fiction. It's available in paperback and as an e-book, and you can still join the Project at any time.
This anthology collects the first two years of Valente's self-produced Omikuji Project, in which she sends subscribers, by email or by post, a short story written just for them every month. I was a member of the Project for a year that overlapped with the stories collected here, and as such I contributed a sentence to the member-written introduction, but I can't remember which one it was at this point, which seems fitting. The stories are opened by art by project members, and closed by an excerpt from the personal note Valente sends with each story.
( This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me… )
I think, having read a fair amount of Valente's conventionally published stories, that these hold their own against the more readily available ones, and that this collection is as good a place as any to start, whether on Valente or on her short fiction. It's available in paperback and as an e-book, and you can still join the Project at any time.