For a while now, SmokeLong Quarterly has been running an excellent series titled, “Why Flash?” If you’re a writer of very short fiction, or are interested in becoming one, the first place to start is by reading flash fiction (which you can find in abundance at SLQ, of course). Once you’ve read some flash, perhaps you’d like to get a little nerdier about it. This series has you covered.
In order of publication, here are the entries so far:
- It’s a Not Quite Accident by Virgie Townsend
- Because of “Karintha” by Tyrese L. Coleman
- Just a Flash. Did You See It? by Leesa Cross-Smith
- Fox Coats and Dictionaries: A History of My Flash Education by Ursula Villarreal-Moura
- Coming Out to Flash Fiction by Santino Prinzi
- On Frayed Ends and Open Doors by Joyce Chong
- Framing Flash by Georgia Bellas
- What is Possible by James Yates
- Idea of the Sprawl by Brian Oliu
- The Expansiveness of Compressed Writing by Karen Craigo
- It Is Always a Sunday Afternoon in April by Myfanwy Collins
- Like Apples and Rollerblades by Christopher Allen
- Universe, Multiverse, Miniverse by Tara Campbell
- Interested in Everything by Aubrey Hirsch
- Fiction That Strikes Like Lightning by Berit Ellingsen
- The Flash That Haunts Us by Hillary Leftwich
- The Silence and the Flood by Alvin Park
- Flash Addiction by Claire Polders
- Flash Fiction: A Flash Essay by Rolli
- Space Between by Ravi Mangla
- On the Mirror and the Echo by Carmen Maria Machado
- Flash Fiction for Genre-Benders by Dot Dannenberg
- Flash Fiction as Language Art by Anne Weisgerber
Or, if you want to read everything at once (or bookmark the page for future entries not yet captured here), you can find them all at http://www.smokelong.com/category/features/news/why-flash-fiction-series/.
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