Most restaurants are said to fail within the first year they open. Write a story (in 300 words or less!) about one of these sinking…
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Dear NANO Writers, There are only nine days left to submit to our Fourth Annual NANO Prize. That means there are only nine days to stare…
Will McCarry: Your piece “Snakebite” appears in our most recent issue of NANO Fiction, 6.2. We get a lot of submissions about snakes at NANO,…
Two of America’s best-known microfictions are poems, written by poets—Forche’s “The Colonel” and Hass’s “Story of the Body”—but both read like fiction, and are presented…
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Reviewers and critics have debated reasons for the advent of flash fiction for years. A dwindling readerly attention span, they say, is to blame, the…
Fun Camp by Gabe Durham Publishing Genius Press Softcover, 166 pages ISBN: 978-0-9888503-1-6 The conceit of Gabe Durham’s Fun Camp is seven days spent at…