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

  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