Eternal Night at the Nature Museum

Tyler Barton is an OUTSTANDING literary advocate. He and his wife Erin Dorney cofounded FEAR NO LIT, a community lit organization centered on reinventing the literary event and filling gaps in writing communities. FEAR NO LIT boasts such community projects as The Submerging Writer Fellowship (https://www.fearnolit.com/fellowship), Page Match (https://www.fearnolit.com/series/pagematchseconddraft?rq=page%20match), and The Hidden Museum (https://www.fearnolit.com/t he-hidden-museum). Tyler has organized more than 50 literary events! So he is no novice in this arena and we can expect a thrilling tour from him. ; Barton has worked with journals such as Hippocampus, Blue Earth Review, The Good thunder Outreach, and he was a radio host for the KMSU Weekly Reader. ; Additionally, he received a 2019 Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts grant (https://tsbarton.com/elderlit/) for his workshops he created and offered to the elderly. Barton was able to publish a chapbook of their work called The Berries Belong to Everyone. And he plans to continue with this programming. ; Barton is the Program Coordinator for the Center for Creative Exploration (at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design). Past positions include education manager at the North Museum of Nature and Science and the conference coordinator for the Native American Literature Symposium. ; MFA from Minnesota State University, Mankato. ; Stories from this collection have been selected for 2020 Best Small Fictions, the 2020 Best Microfiction (selected by Michael Martone), as runner-up of the Kenyon Review's 2018 Short Fiction Contest, and as winner of The Chicago Review of Books 2017 Fall Fiction Prize (judged by Kathleen Rooney). ; Stories featured in journals like Copper Nickel, McNeese Review, Passages North, The Iowa Review, Cincinnati Review, Paper Darts, Kenyon Review, The Collagist, Gulf Coast, Split Lip, and elsewhere. ; Barton is extremely active and beloved on social media. (His post announcing his book earned almost 800 likes on Twitter!)