Anthology Project: The Collected Stories of Michael Martone Attention students, colleagues, and friends of Michael Martone, fiction writer and teacher! Can you vividly recall certain stories that Michael Martone told in class, public speaking engagements or in conversation? Funny, thoughtful stories that made a point, illustrated a concept, revisited an important moment in time? Stories that you may have ended up hearing more than once? I am looking for your retelling of those memorable anecdotes, tales, parables, and/or stories for an anthology with the working title THE COLLECTED STORIES OF MICHAEL MARTONE. Like Michael, I'm interested in how various people, particularly writers, perceive the same voice or process the same memory. My fondest hope is that I can find different representations of the same verbal and stylistic tics as well as multiple variants of the same stories (such as the well-known tale, "The Day My Parents Left Me At The Orphanage.") I am undertaking this project with Michael's knowledge and consent, though he is not materially involved in it. I expect to be working on this project for the next 2-5 years, expect to collect work by at least 25 different authors, and intend to seek a writer of note to write an introduction to the volume, in addition to an expected preface by Michael Martone. Publication plans for the book have yet to be settled. At this point in the process, I am soliciting input from potential contributors. If you think you may have a story to contribute, please send a letter of interest to bard(at)sixbrickspress.com, and tell me a little about your memorable Martone story.