Archive - The Art of Flash Fiction

Time, Movement, Change: The Engine of Flash

With examples from Ada Limón, DeMisty Bellinger, & Lydia Davis

Jun 29 • Kathy Fish

Poetic Forms & Devices in Flash Fiction Part Four - Abecedarians, Anaphora, & More

(From The Comical Hotch Potch, or The Alphabet turn'd Posture-Master, 1782 —Public Domain)

Jun 22 • Kathy Fish

Written in Stone: Writer Commandments

and the joy of (sometimes) breaking them

Jun 15 • Kathy Fish

Links for TOMORROW'S (6/12) Write Together Sessions!

Summer can be a busy time.

Jun 11 • Kathy Fish

A True Literary Hybrid: Poetic Forms & Devices in Flash Fiction Part Three - The Haibun

Poetic Forms & Devices in Flash Fiction: Part Three

Jun 8 • Kathy Fish

Emotional Concision: Poetic Forms & Devices in Flash Part Two - The Pantoum

Grisaille Lancet Top with Foliate Pattern, French, ca.

Jun 1 • Kathy Fish

May 2026

"Asbestos Gloves": Poetic Forms & Devices in Flash Part One - The Sestina Flash

Photo by David von Diemar on Unsplash

May 25 • Kathy Fish

In Defense of the Lowly Writing Prompt...

...and anything else that gets you to the page

May 18 • Kathy Fish

Neither Here Nor There: Layered Liminality

Jack Lemmon & Sandy Dennis, The Out-of-Towners, 1970

May 11 • Kathy Fish

Synchronicity & Juxtaposition: Dramatically Setting Your Flash in Motion

“...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...” ~Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

May 4 • Kathy Fish

April 2026

gather what you have, rest when you need to

Description: A time-worn black and white photograph, circa 1962, of my six young brothers and me as a toddler. Not pictured: my younger brother not yet…

Apr 27 • Kathy Fish

Is Flash Fiction "Gimmicky?"

Apr 20 • Kathy Fish

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