Flash Form Writing

This week I’ve thrown myself full bore into developing course content using Haiku Learning, an online platform that hosts courses for instructors and learning institutions across the world. [...]

If it’s not evident from the past several posts, my teaching brain is in high gear this month. I’m looking forward to flash fiction in February, a guest lecture and reading at SUNY in [...]

A few years ago, I guest blogged at Cheek Teeth Blog about the defining characteristics of flash fiction. The post quickly went to the top of that sites hits, and soon thereafter became the first [...]

It’s been 18 months since I’ve been able to share links to new short stories. While the book tour afforded many opportunities to link reviews, interviews, or radio and television [...]

[There’s a flash fiction video at the end of this post!]I’m pleased to be one of this year’s featured authors at the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival…and even more [...]

Readers, in a rare use of my blog as a platform for fiction, and in an attempt to spread the word about this competition (which requires a post for entry), I’m sharing this odd little [...]

Back at Joseph High School this morning, I was pleased to see that 1 more student joined my optional fiction-writing workshop, so that brings us up to four. I am so comfortable with this age [...]

F196. Flash Fast Sudden Fiction and the Short Story. (Ed Falco, Jayne Anne Phillips, John Dufresne, Steve Almond) The authors on this panel agreed unanimously that they don’t care what a [...]

I’ve been emailing back and forth a bit with Pacific University’s beloved JfD, fiction writer and teacher extraordinaire. He write me yesterday that a woman walked up to him in a bar last night—a [...]