Sitemap - 2024 - The Art of Flash Fiction

At Ethel & Harry's on the Last Night

How dare you!

With Gratitude: 15 Prompts to get us through the rest of this tired old year

Posterity will forget us entirely...

A Loooong List of Great Reads + A Holiday Prompt

Flash Gambits: The Breathless Paragraph

You're invited! Sunday, Nov. 24th: Immersion Extravaganza Salon & Reading

Flash Gambits

Sunday, November 24th: Immersion Extravaganza Salon Reading + From the archives: The Beauty of Flash Fiction

Discussing: "Pancakes" by Kristin Tenor, published in Wigleaf

Exposed Revision

We're in this together...

From the Archives: Harnessing Love & Fear: Ghost Stories

Flash Gambits: The Unusual Point of View

Discussing: "A Three Hour Tour" by Didi Wood (Smokelong Quarterly)

Extravaganza Recap + Salon Night Reading for Participants + A Challenge!

Flash Immersion Mini-Extravaganza, Day Three: Let's Get Dreamy

Titles!

Flash Immersion Mini-Extravaganza, Day Two: Gathering

Welcome to the Art of Flash Fiction Mini-Immersion Extravaganza! Day One: Firsts, Lasts, and Onlies

Ready! Set! Write! Preparing for next week's Flash Immersion Mini-Sprint

Four More Recommendations from the Fabulously Supportive Flash Fiction Community

There's a submission call or a contest deadline in ONE hour and you've got nothing to send...

"You think too much." On presence, mindfulness, and saving your own skin

Six Keys to Drafting with Confidence

CORRECTION - Flash Immersion Mini-Extravaganza dates: Sun., Sept. 29th thru Tues., Oct. 1st

Save the dates (CORRECTED) Three-Day Mini-Flash Extravaganza! Sept. 29th, 30th, Oct. 1st!

From the Archives: Your Flash Fiction Opening

Flash Gambits: The Flash Forward Ending

Announcing: New Round of Workshops & Autumn Retreat in West Virginia!

Seven Key Questions to Ask Every Draft

The tiny, but revealing, flash fiction flashback

A Whole Lot of Things I’ve Learned About Learning to Write

Four Flashes You Need to Read Right Now!

From the Archives: The Secret to Great Writing Revealed!

Prompt: Playing with the Unexpected

Flash Gambits: Fun, Compelling, Risk-Taking Moves You Should Totally Try

Dreams unwind...

"Frisson": The Aesthetic Chills We Get from Great Art

Soft Fascination: A Gentler Way to Pay Attention

Thirteen Steps Toward Sharpening the Language of Your Story

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps...

To Openness & Curiosity

The Heart of the Matter: Emotionally Charged Flash Fiction

Best Small Fictions Reading, Sat. April 27th, 10 a.m. Eastern Time!

The Ego vs. The Soul

Registering now: All New 3-in-90 Workshops!

REMINDER: Inaugural Flash Immersion Reading, tomorrow, April 21st! Open for link!

Drumroll: Sunday's Readers

Three Paragraphs + Anaphora

Staying "in the Heart": Attempting a dervish flash

You're invited: Inaugural Flash Immersion Reading, April 21st! Open for link!

Let's dance...

Prompts vs. Exercises

The Literalized Metaphor

Do you have a great family story that's been told and retold over the years?

The Single-Scene Flash

From the archives: Absence, Negation, and White Space

The Miraculous First Draft

Flash Immersion - FINAL Day!

Creative Alchemy: Flash Immersion - Day Twenty-Eight

The Seven-Step Micro: Flash Immersion - Day Twenty-Seven

Fun Facts: Flash Immersion - Day Twenty-Six

Fun Facts: Flash Immersion - Day Twenty-Six

Founding Members, Hello!

"Yours" by Mary Robison: Flash Immersion - Day Twenty-Five

Titles! Flash Immersion - Day Twenty-Four

Superpowers: Flash Immersion - Day Twenty-Three

A Place for Us: Flash Immersion - Day Twenty-Two

Your Writerly Dreams: Flash Immersion - Day Twenty-One

From the archives: The Secret to Great Writing Revealed! Flash Immersion - Day Twenty

To the Dying Peace Lily...: Flash Immersion - Day Nineteen

Good Sentences in Your Ears: Flash Immersion - Day Eighteen

Mise en scène: Flash Immersion - Day Seventeen

It's Imperative: Flash Immersion - Day Sixteen

February Newsletter - all subscribers

Breaking Free of the Ordinary - Flash Immersion - Day Fifteen

Pressing Pause: Flash Immersion - Day Fourteen

Join my chat!

The Rashomon Effect - Flash Immersion - Day Thirteen

Begin with the impossible: Flash Immersion - Day Twelve

Sunday thread: What's your all-time favorite movie ending?

Close encounters: Flash Immersion - Day Eleven

Significant Object: Flash Immersion - Day Ten

Liminal Spaces: Flash Immersion - Day Nine

Ekphrasis: Flash Immersion - Day Eight

A fun one: Flash Immersion - Day Seven

"Index of Body Parts" by Kim Magowan: Flash Immersion - Day Six

From the archives: Flash Fiction as Its Own Unique Form: Flash Immersion - Day Five

Sunday Thread: What's your writerly origin story?

The American Sentence: Flash Immersion - Day Four

Three Paragraphs + Anaphora: Flash Immersion - Day Three

Say hello! (If you wish)

The World in Miniature: Flash Immersion - Day Two

Ready, Set, Write! Flash Immersion - Day One

February, 2024 Extravaganza Home Page

Obsessions & Observations

Your beloved flash fictions?

Invincible summer...

From the archives: Writing with Courage and Conviction

The flash series

Upcoming workshops - What would you like me to teach?

Good madness