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

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