Prompt #21

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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Prompt #20

When writing is going well, almost nothing is important enough to stop you: the sink full of dishes, your cat yeowling to be fed, that…

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Prompt #19

If we are to be at all invested in social networking, we can’t go by a single minute without knowing what people are eating for…

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Prompt #18

We all spend time, money, and energy on curious fascinations. Maybe you detail your moped every Wednesday or have doubled your grandma’s collection of two…

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Only 9 Days Left!

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…

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Five Questions with Allie Marini Batts

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,…

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What Isn’t Said

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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What Works Works

Writers of flash work the rules in various ways, sometimes compressing traditional narrative to create thumbnails of larger, longer tales, all the needed elements rendered…

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A Sudden Flash, or Into and Out of the Pan

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…

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Fun Camp by Gabe Durham

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…

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