Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I write flash because it’s fucking brilliant. I love it. I love everything about it. There’s nothing quite like a shot of short-short fiction. I grew up adoring short stories—and I still do—but flash fiction goes beyond and enters a poetic and even psychic … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Jonathan Cardew

  Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? Flash is what I end up writing most of the time, and flash is what it is called due to word length. I’ve never been one to write long, although a good long read is immensely enjoyable. What flash has done for me, … Continue reading Mini-Interview with April Bradley

Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? Thank you for these questions, Tommy. The no-nonsense, practical answer: I think I started workshopping flash because my stories were more likely to get a lot of reviews in the online workshop I took part in 10 years ago. My short stories would get … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Christopher Allen

Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you?  I like the urgency of it, that sense that something needs to be expressed before I run out of space and words. I like its “big bang like” compression, a thing on the verge of exploding. I like the dense weight of it. What's … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Randall Brown

  Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I like being able to "see" the entire story on one or two pages. Longer stuff stresses me out because I don't feel like I can get my brain wrapped around all of it at once. I also like the economy of flash. … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Tara Laskowski

Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I like it for a number of reasons, and I think the big one is it has a lot of rules. It’s not a matter of telling a story in under a thousand words, it has, seems to me, what Yeats called the fascination … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Anne Weisgerber

  Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I’m drawn to the tightly wrapped. The truth-tellers. I find as time goes on I have less patience for filler-crap. The in-between conflict moments that allow a reader to breathe. In the midst of a psychotic episode or an altercation with a stranger, … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Meg Tuite

Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I love flash for its immediacy. I can write directly from an emotion or impression. I feel it’s like poetry that way. Flash can go deep into a moment or feeling or image, but can also give a sense of story, of an existence … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Kathy Fish

Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I love the puzzle aspect of flash – of making a story work within the parameters of a word count. It’s often more fun than working on a longer story and lends itself to experimenting more. What's your writerly lifejacket: character or plot? Probably … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Shasta Grant

  Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I’m mostly a person who can’t get from Point A to Point Z easily. Typically, I barely arrive. I’m easily distracted, I like brevity in all shapes and forms. And I’ll always like the idea of beautiful, miniscule gems wrapped in outlandish packages. … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Robert Vaughan