Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? Before I switched to literature, I was a studio art major where I learned to appreciate how choices in materials or canvas size could limit or liberate you. Small never meant easier, simpler. Prior to studying flash as a writer, I taught its form … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Jolene McIlwain
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Mini-Interview with Tara Isabel Zambrano
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I think flash is an opportunity to capture a moment and make it bigger than life. As a writer that’s what makes it so interesting and complex to write. I started writing flash when I first joined Fictionaut and a lot of writers … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Tara Isabel Zambrano
Mini-Interview with Kathryn McMahon
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? The urgency and control. I write longer prose, too, but with flash, I don’t always have to think it out before I write it. I can just sit and capture the idea as it blooms in my brain. Even if it’s a very rough … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Kathryn McMahon
Mini-Interview with K.C. Mead-Brewer
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? First, let me say that I personally don’t tend to make genre distinctions between flash, prose poetry, or micro fiction. For me, these all fall into the same bubbling pot. I wanted to clarify this because I fell in love with this form through … Continue reading Mini-Interview with K.C. Mead-Brewer
Mini-Interview with Jayne Martin
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? It could have something to do with my insatiable need for immediate gratification, or my deeply-challenged attention span. But I think I fall into the genre naturally from years of writing television scripts where most of the scenes are pretty short. You get … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Jayne Martin
Mini-Interview with Chloe Clark
Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I think I got into writing flash because it was quick. It was something I could do while working on longer writing projects without committing myself to huge amounts of time (I like to be working on several things at once). What I discovered, … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Chloe Clark
Saying Thank You
Since joining Twitter two years ago, I've found a wonderful community of writers, writers I didn't even know that existed, who I'm sure didn't know anything about me either. Twitter opened up this entire world of people who cared about writing, who loved to read and write short stories and flash fiction, who were all … Continue reading Saying Thank You
Celebrating Flash Fiction
I'm so honored to join Wigleaf's Top 50 Very Short Fiction 2017 Long List. Flash fiction's popularity has soared in the last few years, with hundred's of literary journals either popping up over night or realizing the poignant value of such short stories. This is largely good news for both reader and writer, but it does … Continue reading Celebrating Flash Fiction
Climbing the Slide
I've been thinking a lot about my 22 month old son and how he sees and interacts with the world. It's not hard to compare him to my five year old daughter's way of taking on the world at that age. Knowing that my memory is surely imperfect, and that I've either enlarged or shrunk … Continue reading Climbing the Slide
Writing and Basketball
I’ve been thinking a lot about the differences between writing and basketball. Not the vocation or career differences but rather the way I think about the practice of either discipline. Both, like many other hobbies or avocations are certainly disciplines that take hours of dedicated attention in the pursuit of getting better. Like a lot … Continue reading Writing and Basketball