You’ve writ­ten some flash, and now, before it’s com­plete, you must revise in order to get the piece to be the best that it can be, whether you’re look­ing to sub­mit it for pub­li­ca­tion, or sim­ply share it with friends and col­leagues.

A review of Rose Met­al Press’s THEY COULD NO LONGER CONTAIN THEMSELVES: “The over­all won­der of this plump lit­tle gem is that there is no jock­ey­ing for space, no jostling of elbows, no step­ping on toes.”

Sil­ver Surfer + Five Ran­dom Words = Flash Fic­tion Glo­ry

An excerpt and response to Robin Black’s blog entry about the sub­jec­tiv­i­ty of read­er respons­es.

A prompt for a flash inspired by Frost’s “The Road Not Tak­en.”

The Los Ange­les Review announces an online flash fic­tion work­shop.

A mem­ber of the edi­to­r­i­al staff for Mat­ter Press’s Jour­nal of Com­pressed Cre­ative Arts dis­cuss­es what he’s look­ing for in a sub­mis­sion.

My plan was to write a sort of struc­tured mini-essay, care­ful­ly laid out. But I chanced upon a few mat­ter-full para­graphs writ­ten by Flan­nery O’Connor

The best flash fic­tion I ever wrote–at least it con­tained some of my best stuff–there’s about a mil­lion drafts of it in this draw­er here, I couldn’t fin­ish it. I found that I was fak­ing things all the time, dodg­ing issues and let­ting my char­ac­ters dodge them. 

Mat­ter Press is pro­vid­ing com­pres­sion state­ments from flash fic­tion writ­ers.