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

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