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Together We Can Bury It by Kathy Fish

Together We Can Bury It by Kathy Fish Lit Pub Books Softcover, 162 pages ISBN: 978-1-937662-04-2 The title of Kathy Fish’s flash fiction collection, Together…

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Desire

And how many were there? The entire senior class, close to three hundred. Some administrators; a score of teachers. The football coach, six parents, one…

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Prompt #17

Sometimes I get into a rut with writing, a place where nothing feels fresh, where I can’t get past my own world and ways of seeing to consider something original. This is one of my favorite exercises for such times.

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Hint: Teaching How to Read and Write off the Page

Let us begin with this: flash fiction is an excellent genre for the writer and reader. For the writer, flash provides unique techniques, opportunities for bursts of inspiration, varied markets, new methods of reading aloud their work, inventive varieties of form, a fresh way to think about words, lack of words, compression, space.

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I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying by Matthew Salesses

I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying by Matthew Salesses Civil Coping Mechanisms Softcover, 138 pages ISBN: 978-1-937865-06-1 All but one of the 115 stories in…

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Five Questions with Our New Review Editor: Peter Fontaine

Sophie Rosenblum: Tell our readers a little about yourself. What do you like to read? And Write? Peter Fontaine: I’m thirty-five, I live in Atlanta,…

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The Children’s Book Writer

He preferred to write drunk. His books were more successful when he wrote them drunk. His theory was that his drunk books were looser and…

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National Flash Fiction Day: An Interview with Calum Kerr

Sophie Rosenblum: What is National Flash Fiction Day? Calum Kerr: As the name suggests, it’s a day to celebrate the tiny stories which come under…

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NANO Prize Interview with 2013 Judge Sean Lovelace

Sophie Rosenblum: Those of us who write know how random getting published can be; one editor might love a piece while another editor (sometimes at…

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Pop Shop Houston

Join us May 11th and 12th at Spring Street Studios (1824 Spring Street, Houston, TX 77007) for Pop Shop Houston: Indie Craft Fair, Art, and…

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