Twelve Days of Giving Reason Three – We Support Teachers!

NANO Fiction’s mission to publish and promote flash fiction means that we also care a great deal about both expanding the critical discourse surrounding the…

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Twelve Days of Giving Reason Two: Guest Reader Stefanie Freele

NANO Fiction: What first drew you to NANO Fiction? Stefanie Freele: My admiration for the well-crafted short-short. NF: Who are the writers (flash fiction or…

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Welcome to NANO Fiction’s Twelve Days of Giving!

 NANO Fiction recently celebrated its eighth year of existence, and while the publication and our programming grow every year to reach more and more new…

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Twelve Days of Giving Reason One: Guest Reader Kayla Rae Candrilli

NANO Fiction: What first drew you to NANO Fiction? Kayla Rae Candrilli: NANO Fiction was one of the first journals I became acquainted with. During…

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Five Questions with Lily Hoang

Kirby Johnson: In the current issue of NANO Fiction, you have three retellings of the Goldilocks fairytale. Beyond the obvious source material, what was your…

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Five Questions With Megan Giddings

Kirby Johnson: First off, I’d like to say that your story, “Dream Lover” in Volume 8 Number 1 is one of my favorite pieces in…

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General Submissions closing this Friday!

Dear Readers — Due to an overwhelming number of amazing submissions, NANO Fiction’s general submissions will close on November 14th and will re-open on February…

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Reducing Language, Growing Story: Flash Fiction and Word Counts

Though often left out of workshop conversations, those ubiquitous constraints known as word counts have been influencing fiction writers far more than they let on,…

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Join us at the Letters Festival In Atlanta!

Join NANO Fiction November 6-8 at the Letters Festival–a three-day independent literature festival with writing workshops, conversations, discussion panel, a book market and live readings…

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Bearish

My husband’s granddaddy felled the bear upon the rangy earth of Wyoming—the grassy compass back of that American square, a spread-wide book of glory. I…

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