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Flash form writing is an excellent way to engage and jumpstart your creativity, just make sure you have the 5 S’s. I’m delighted to share this brief, instructional video with my [...]

I recently shared a snapshot on social media, depicting a moment in my life that involved cooking, writing, and mindful parenting. Later, I realized that what I shared is in the spirit of this [...]

Flash fiction writing does this using precise word choice, images, metaphor–in just a few pages. If you know how to do that, you can write scenes in your novels or memoirs, you can tighten [...]

The Internet is like profit or like sugar; none are inherently evil or pure. The Internet just is. Profit is, too. And sugar, love it or hate it, also hangs out in that “is-ness” realm. But what [...]

Into the Flash is a 5-week, immersive, flash form writing class that will teach you how to imagine, think, and create work that conjures as much possibility as this picture. It only runs in April [...]

2017 came up quite shy of my former “one book a week” reading average, but when I went to my Goodreads page to tally my pages for the year, I was actually pretty surprised. Reading [...]

At AWP, I attended a panel exploring the “trend” in flash fiction (or flash form writing – including lyric essay, flash nonfiction, prose poetry, etc.). The authors that [...]

Today I’m celebrating the work of esteemed author Pete Fromm, whose short stories, novels, and memoirs have won countless awards and are read across the globe. Pete’s writing always [...]