Flash Craft Series

As the start date for my April Into the Flash course nears, I’m starting to wrap up this series of posts. But no discussion of flash would be complete without a nod to our friends across [...]

Between Panic & Desire by Dinty W. Moore is technically memoir, and it’s full of chapters that are flash length, as well as structures that break form and tradition. As detailed on [...]

Today I’m going to read from Desiree Cooper’s collection, Know the Mother, published by Wayne State University Press. There are so many strong moments in this book, but “Soft [...]

The Short Series are three anthologies that changed my understanding of what’s possible in creative nonfiction and flash form writing: In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal edited by Judith [...]

For today’s craft discussion, I want to share Meg Pokrass’ lovely flash piece, “Stranded Sea Mammals,” published in Jellyfish Review. If you don’t know Meg’s [...]

Ecstatic Cahoots by Stuart Dybek is a collection of 50 flash fiction stories that “target the friction between our need for ecstatic self-transcendence and our passionate longing for trust [...]

Bruce Holland Rogers may be a “well kept secret” in some circles, but as an Oregonian, I have known about him and his work for years. Today’s flash form craft lesson video [...]

February and March blogs posts are full of flash form resources and craft talks with a book recommendation perfect for wintertime… Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska, edited by [...]

I’m willing to put my own work up for scrutiny here, too, and since we’re talking flash form writing craft, I wanted to share the first story in Flashes of War, titled “While [...]

Funny Bone Flashing for Comic Relief edited by Peter Blair and Ashley Chantler fills the publishing gap of limited humorous flash fiction writing. It’s “Wry, off-beat, quirky, [...]