Great news flash fiction writers! We’re extending the NANO Prize deadline for another five days. The new deadline will be September 5th, 2012. That’s an…
Sophie Rosenblum: You recently mentioned on Twitter that you are planning to write a piece of flash fiction for every day in August to prepare…
1. There shall be titles. Titles are everything. 2. Present tense is preferable to past tense. Because friends have told us we should live in…
School’s out for summer! But summer’s almost over. Sorry. It’s true. Many of our readers and writers are heading back to class in the coming…
Dear NANO Readers, There are just two weeks left to submit to the Fourth Annual NANO Prize. For those of you who have not yet submitted…
I read fiction for two reasons: 1.Entertainment People say life is short because it’s actually very long and full of liars. If life were short,…
You kick me out of the house for the afternoon and tell me to call you when I feel scared about something. “You’re so calm,” you say. “I want to hear what you’re like in distress.”
A confession: what I write is always true. The concept of fiction has always escaped me—there are no characters here, no description of who they…
The strength of that phrase: its muscles, its weight. It suggests: flash fiction is a forever contender, serious and suspect with its uneven temper. It says just checking on this fierce thing, just shaking the cage.