Whiskey, Etc.

Sherrie Flick is the author of the short story collections, I Have Not Considered Consequences, Thank Your Lucky Stars, and Whiskey, Etc. (all published by Autumn House Press), the novel Reconsidering Happiness (University of Nebraska Press), and the essay collection Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist (University of Nebraska Press). Whiskey, Etc. was the winner of the Foreword INDIES bronze prize and named one of Entropy’s Best Fiction Books of 2016. A story from Thank Your Lucky Stars was performed at Symphony Space and aired on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She served as coeditor of the anthology Flash Fiction America (W. W. Norton) with James Thomas and John Dufresne and was series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018 with guest editor Aimee Bender. She is the recipient of a 2023 Creative Development Award from The Heinz Endowments and a Writing Pittsburgh fellowship from The Creative Nonfiction Foundation. She lives in Pittsburgh where she is a senior lecturer at Chatham University and a member of Shiftworks’ Creative Corps.

"Sherrie Flick’s Whiskey, Etc. makes the most of the unique meaning-making opportunities available in the flash fiction story collection form in fascinating ways. The book is organized into eight thematically linked sections of flash stories: songs, pets, coffee/tea, dessert, art, cars and canoes, soap, and whiskey. And Flick compels her readers into her story worlds with irresistible openings. . . . these flash stories seduce the reader and cannot be forgotten." —Wes Blake, “8 Brilliant Flash Fiction Books That Pack a Quick Punch,” Electric Literature"Flick’s collection keeps readers engaged with her crisp and lyrical writing. Her eye for detail is poetically rendered, and she turns the mundane into the beautiful." —Megan Douglas, Barrelhouse Reviews"Over and over in this collection, we are led to the realization that something important, maybe the only thing that’s important, is missing. What makes Flick’s balancing act so compelling is that even though its sense of emptiness underlies everything, it’s never in a way that feels sinister or maudlin. This collection is a treasure." —Damian Dressick, “7 Flash Fiction Collections You Should Be Reading,” Electric Literature"Whiskey, Etc. by Sherrie Flick is a sharp-edged, intelligent, brilliantly written collection of short shorts by a writer at the very top of her game. One finds glimpses of Joy Williams here, but this is unmistakably Flick’s world, inhabited as it is with dogs & songs & whiskey & lovers. Of grace and undoing. The remembered & the remembering. This book took my every last breath away." —Kathy Fish"Sherrie Flick’s Whiskey, Etc. is finer than the best brand of whiskey. With its clean fridges, cooked eggs and fresh-brewed coffee, crickets, pistols, pies, this book will leave you singing like the birds inside it. Flick's clean crisp prose with it refreshing style provides a delectable mix of tastes full of satisfying richness; each of these stories is like a memorable meal. And though Whiskey, Etc. is deliciously intoxicating and addicting, it is also sobering, full of heart, and real." —Kim Chinquee