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

  Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? Discovering flash fiction as a reader opened my mind as a writer. Finally, I had found a genre in which I could truly experiment without the risk of wasting months on a story I wouldn’t be able to finish. Once I started writing … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Claire Polders

Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I sort of fell into flash—I was writing these brief bits of prose and then trying to string them together into braided essays or some longer work until I realized they could stand alone. That this was a thing, a form in its own … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Dina Relles

Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? It gives me the chance to create many new worlds. Ideally, I want each flash fiction to be a unique experience for the reader, and to feel like a place, or a memory of a place. Like momentarily stumbling into someone else’s dream, and … Continue reading Mini-Interview with

Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? I will admit I enjoy the immediate buzz you get from completing a flash story. With longer pieces, I need to be in a very different place, psychologically, if I am going to be able to concentrate long enough to complete it. So, there … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Jennifer Harvey

  Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? Flash can be so many things. It can be used to tell a traditional story or it can be conceptual. It’s a painting or a sculpture, a Rube Goldberg contraption, something you can hold in your hand (or at once in your brain) … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Jennifer Fliss

Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? One of the reasons is probably time. It’s hard to make time for larger projects when I’m teaching. But I’ve always been attracted to the lyric fragment and to small moments in larger works, and I love the compression and resonance of very short writing. … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Jacqueline Doyle

  Why do you write flash? What makes it different for you? The accessibility of flash is a real selling point for me. Both writing and reading flash can fit into small slivers of time between other commitments. There is satisfaction in getting an entire first draft onto the page in one short sitting. What … Continue reading Mini-Interview with Stephanie Hutton