Community Ink: Sherrie Flick

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Adults
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Community Ink: Local Author Series

This community-focused series is designed to spotlight and celebrate the literary talent of Western Pennsylvania. This platform creates space for local authors to share their work, discuss their creative process, and connect directly with readers. These events feature book readings, lectures, signings, and Q&A sessions, fostering an intimate and interactive atmosphere. We've hosted authors like Marie Benedict, Brooke Barker and Boaz Frankel, Andy McPhee, and Clare Beams to name a few.

Our hope with Community Ink is to strengthen ties between authors and their local audience; showcase writers across genres, from fiction and poetry to memoirs and academic works; offer insights into the writing process, publishing journey, and the power of storytelling while providing visibility and encouragement for authors to thrive within their community.

Sherrie Flick will read from and discuss her two latest, and very different from each other, books. The essay collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist (University of Nebraska Press) traces her creative growth and examines how leaving the rustbelt, traveling, and returning to the region made her a specific kind of feminist and writer. I Have Not Considered Consequences (Autumn House Press) is a short story collection with a mix of flash fiction and longer stories that features a mix of bears and humans trying to make sense of their worlds. The two books are ultimately each a half that together make a whole sense of Sherrie’s world view.

Sherrie Flick is the author of three short story collections, all published by Autumn House Press. They are Whiskey, Etc., Thank Your Lucky Stars, and I Have Not Considered Consequences. Her recent awards include a Creative Development grant from the Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from the Creative Nonfiction Foundation. She is co-editor for the Norton anthology Flash Fiction America and a long-time senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. An essay in her collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist, was notable in Best American Essays 2023. In spring 2025 she served as the McGee Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at Davidson College, and she recently joined the low-res MFA faculty at West Virginia Wesleyan. She lives in Pittsburgh.

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