Dear Readers and Writers, As you may have heard, we’re deleting our current Facebook account in order to make a brand new fan page, and…
Here, in the state of Flash, there is only one rule: Be brief. That is it. There are those who march, waving flags, chanting things…
Kirby Johnson: Congratulations on the 2012 NANO Prize! What prompted you to enter the contest? Patrick Swaney: Thanks! I love what you guys do at…
Kirby Johnson: What makes a good flash piece? Which is to say, what do you value, as a reader, in a piece of flash fiction? And…
Join NANO Fiction at Periodically Speaking, from 6:00pm until 7:30pm on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 for a conversation and readings by Chas Carey, Stephanie Valente, Alissa Riccardelli and…
Hello, NANO Fiction readers! Ahh, election year, that time when we are slogging through and ignoring our various uncles’ Goblin Party Facebook tirades. And what…
Nora thinks air and smell are one. You breathe in sweet or sour, musty or moldy or wet-dog or chicken-broth scented. You breathe out your…
Kirby Johnson: You mentioned at one of your Houston readings that Sweet Land of Bigamy evolved from several shorter stories. When did you discover that the story…
Hi, my name’s Christopher, and I write a lot of prose poems. Why? Well, the short answer is: Russell Edson. The slightly less short answer is: Russell Edson, James Tate, Amy Gerstler, Richard Brautigan, and Charles Simic.
But that’s just me.
Dad bit down on his cigarette as he worked a knife between the seams, the deer’s head nodding and shaking in little fits. The strips…