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…
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…
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…
Dear NANO Readers, There are only 30 days left to send us your finest flash fiction! The Fifth Annual NANO Prize closes on September 1,…
I wrote a song that transforms the listener into a glass jar. I threw it together on a synthesizer. Everyone thinks I used maracas for…
Kirby Johnson: First I must mention how strikingly beautiful Your Attraction to Sharp Machines is. The book feels like a diary with its padded hardback cover and the inserts inside. What was it like to work with BatCat Press to determine the form this novella would ultimately take, and did you have an idea of how you wanted to present this story before hand?
Matthew Mahaney: Thanks. I remember asking Deanna, the BatCat editor, how much input I’d have, soon after she told me they’d chosen Sharp Machines from their open reading period.
When we first started dating, my boyfriend said that I needed to maintain both a Twitter account and a blog. “You don’t even have a…
On a beach on Lake Superior, trying to make sense of anything, Anna said, “Maybe we just didn’t love each other enough.” Waves slapped the…