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Prompt #60

Happy Birthday, Ernest Hemingway! Today we celebrate the life of one of the best flash fiction writers around. In his honor, do your best to…

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All Movies Love the Moon: Prose Poems on Silent Film by Gregory Robinson

All Movies Love the Moon: Prose Poems on Silent Film by Gregory Robinson Rose Metal Press Paperback, 96 pages ISBN: 978-0-9887645-5-2 Gregory Robinson’s innovative collection,…

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Five Questions with Sarah McCartt-Jackson

Kirby Johnson: Your piece, “Flux” appears in our most recent issue of NANO Fiction, 7.2—how did this piece come about? Is it part of a…

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Prompt #59

On this day in 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received his patent for the very first typewriter. PROMPT: Write a story where a character invents something….

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Saturn by Simon Jacobs

Saturn by Simon Jacobs Spork Press Paperback, 43 pages ISBN: 978-0-9887503-4-0 Saturn is a series of 19 short narratives in which David Bowie features as…

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Five Questions with Rebecca Wadlinger

Kirby Johnson: Your two pieces, “The Enthusiast” and “The Beautiful War” appear in our most recent issue of NANO Fiction, 7.2. Both pieces touch on…

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A Brand New Reason to Love NANO!

NANO Fiction is delighted to announce that we are now in a position to pay our contributors! Starting with issue 8.1, all writers who have…

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Prompt #58 — The Last Cuts Are The Deepest

Many times a story is submitted to NANO Fiction and the editors love everything about it except for the last line or two. PROMPT Take…

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Prompt #57 — It’s not always about Flash…

Sometimes we set out to write a piece of flash fiction, but the story demands more. We may grapple with including details, character history, or…

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The Girl in the Golden Hood

Despite watching her grow from a toddler to a child to a young teenager, the wolf had never dreamed that the girl he often watched…

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