Anthologies
& Reprints
featuring work by Melissa Pritchard
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"Writing Exercises," Naming the World and Other Creative Writing Exercises, ed. Bret Anthony Johnston. To be published by Random House, the book will also publish pieces by Richard Bausch, Dorothy Allison, Elizabeth McCracken, Mark Windegardner, Joyce Carol Oates, Margot Livesey, Alan Cheuse, Russell Banks, and others, January 2008.
“Desirelessness,” Desire: Women Write about Wanting. Ed. Lisa Solod. Seal Press: Groundbreaking Books by Women for Women / Avalon Publishing, November 1, 2007.
"Disappearing Ingenue," A Writers Country. eds. Tim Schell and Jeff Knorr (Prentice Hall) NJ, 2006.
"A Private Landscape,"A Garden of Forking Paths: An Anthology for Creative Writers, eds. Beth Anstandig and Eric Killough. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2006.
“Salve Regina,” Behind the Short Story: From First to Final Draft. eds Ryan Van Cleave and Todd Pierce. Pearson/Allyn and Bacon/Longman, 2006.
"Port de Bras," High Horse: Contemporary Writing by the MFA Faculty of Spalding University. Fleur-de-Lis Press, Louisville, KY, May 2005.
"Photograph of Luisa," Deepening Fiction: An Intermediate Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers. eds. Sarah Stone and Ron Nyren. New York: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon/Longman, 2005.
"Nutrimento Prezioso" ("Sweet Feed"). Da Costa A Costa: 12 racconti americani di oggi. (From Coast to Coast: Twelve Short Stories by American Writers of Today). School of Literary Translation, Mario Materassi, ed. Palomar di Alternative, University of Florence, Italy, 2004.
"Funktionslust." Pushcart Prize XXVI, Best of the Small Presses, Pushcart Press, Wainscott, NY, 2002.
"Salve Regina." Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards, series editor, Larry Dark, October 2000, Anchor Books, NY.
"The Instinct for Bliss." The Prentice Hall Anthology of Women's Literature, Prentice Hall Inc. NJ, 2000. pp 920-30.
"Sweet Feed." A Writer's Country, Prentice Hall. Tim Schell and Jeff Knorr, co-editors. August 2000. (Companion anthology to college textbook, Mooring Against the Tides: Writing Fiction and Poetry. Prentice Hall, August 2000).
"Uriel." Best of the American Voice #50, Louisville, KY, Fall 1999.
"Closed to the Natural World." Best of Hawaii Review: Twenty-Five Years of Great Writing, issue #50, Vol. 21.2, Spring/summer 1998. pp 158-165.
"The Instinct for Bliss."Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood, paperback edition, North Point Press, division of Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, May 1997. pp 215-231
"Spirit Seizures."American Gothic Tales, Dutton Signet, editor Joyce Carol Oates, December 1996. pp 475-85
"The Instinct for Bliss." Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood, North Point Press, division of Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, May 1996. pp 215-231.
"Eating for Theodora." Walking the Twilight II: Women Writers of the Southwest, Northland Publishing, Flagstaff, AZ, Spring 1996. pp 89-104.
"The Instinct for Bliss." The Pushcart Prize XX, Best of the Small Presses, Pushcart Press, Wainscott, NY, November 1995. pp 277-289.
"Battered Lives." reprint of book review, Waverly Place \, Susan Brownmiller, Discovering Author Series, Gale Research Inc., Chicago Tribune, February 1989, p.4, publication date Fall 1995-6.
"El Ojito del Muerto." Walking the Twilight, Women Writers of the Southwest, Northland Publishing, Fall 1994, pp 115-125.
"Eating for Theodora." ASU Insight, Faculty/Staff publication, Vol. 14, No. 24, December 1993.
"A Graven Space." Hayden's Ferry Review, Fall Issue 1993, Issue 13, Arizona State University, pp 47-49.
"La Bete: A Figure Study." The Flannery O'Connor Award: Selected Stories, University of Georgia Press, 1992, pp 208-222.
"Phoenix." Three Genres: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, Prentice Hall, college textbook, 5th edition 1992, Stephen Minot editor, pp 151-157.
"Hallie: How Love Is Found When the Heart Is Lost." The Best of the West 4, W.W. Norton & Co, New York, NY, 1991, pp 197-206.
"Spirit Seizures." The Literary Ghost: Great Contemporary Ghost Stories, Larry Dark editor, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991, pp 144-156.
"A Private Landscape." Prize Stories 1984: The O'Henry Awards,William Abrahams editor, Doubleday & Co., New York, NY, 1984, pp 127-133.