Songs of My Selfie: An Anthology of Millennial Stories

Being twenty-something isn’t as cut and dry as it once was. For many, the early twenties is a time of tumultuous upheaval: unpaid internships, tiny apartments filled with roommates, and worries about what the future holds. For others, this is a time of stagnancy: of waiting and hoping and hometowns,......more

Being twenty-something isn’t as cut and dry as it once was. For many, the early twenties is a time of tumultuous upheaval: unpaid internships, tiny apartments filled with roommates, and worries about what the future holds. For others, this is a time of stagnancy: of waiting and hoping and hometowns, and wondering what the hell college degrees are good for anyway. Instead of first jobs, first marriages, and first homes, millennials have been faced with greater stresses and challenges than any other generation—yet, in the process of navigating a fast-changing world, they have been publicly maligned again and again.

celebrates the millennial through the works of up-and-coming fiction writers, all under the age of twenty-six. This collection features seventeen short stories by millennial writers about actual millennial issues, exposing this generation's true ambitions and frustrations, humor and heartbreak, despair and joie de vivre. With fresh new voices and edgy prose, these compelling stories offer a cross-section of vibrant millennial characters: unemployed grads deep in debt, expectant mothers on the cusp of adulthood, online relationship addicts, and millennials at war with their families' expectations—even while stuck living at home. Here are the strong and the weak, the self-aware and those who reject reality—all carefully crafted to buck the common perception of the millennial. And yet, with a knowing wink, each story is accompanied by a selfie of its author.

Forget what the media says—

reveals what it really means to be twenty-something today.

Stories include:

by Suzanne Herman

by Stephanie Bramson

by Mina E. Holmes

by Jared Shaffer

by Theresa Buchta

by Angus McLinn

by Angela Sloan

by Xingyue Sarah He

by Joshua Tuttle

by Tyler Barton

by Aaron Thorpe

by Tiffany Ferentini

by Tara Isabella Burton

by Katherine Sloan

by Carolyn A. Drake

by Ifra Asad

by Constance Renfrow(less)

Constance Renfrow is a New-York-based writer and editor. She is the lead editor for Three Rooms Press and a freelance editor/ writing coach. She hosts a monthly open mic series at the Merchant’s House Museum. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in such places as

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Constance Renfrow is a New-York-based writer and editor. She is the lead editor for Three Rooms Press and a freelance editor/ writing coach. She hosts a monthly open mic series at the Merchant’s House Museum. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in such places as

and

, and her articles have been featured on DIY MFA and LitroNY, among others. A lover of nineteenth-century literature, she's currently completing a three-volume governess novel, her first full-length work.

Constance Renfrow is a New-York-based writer and editor. She is the lead editor for Three Rooms Press and a freelance editor/ writing coach. She hosts a monthly open mic series at the Merchant’s House Museum. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in such places as

and

, and her articles have been featured on DIY MFA and LitroNY, among others. A lover of nineteenth-century literature, she's currently completing a three-volume governess novel, her first full-length work. (less)