Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? For one, I like feeling accomplished; with flash, you can start and finish a story all in one sitting (sometimes more than one!), and then I feel really great about myself. I give myself a big pat on the back and congratulate myself for … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Madeline Anthes

Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I love the economy of writing in flash. How stories are whittled down until every word counts. How you can leave someone gobsmacked in such short shrift. There isn’t much to hide behind with flash, you’ve got to get in, get out. It’s like … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Jennifer Todhunter

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