Flash Fiction Writer Interview Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I love the immediacy of flash, the tightness of it. How you can say so much with so little. In college, I had a writing teacher who thought I’d be a natural at flash, but I was a poet (I … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Cathy Ulrich

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

  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

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

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

  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