A fifty-word micro from five prompt words: shawl, mas­cot, bar­rel, lith­o­graph, esplanade.

Try using hyper­ba­ton and oth­er such devices to get your flash­es to be even more flashy.

I just signed up for the 15th Annu­al Post­grad­u­ate Writ­ers’ Con­fer­ence August 9–15, 2010 work­shop with Michael Mar­tone at Ver­mont Col­lege of Fine Arts in Mont­pe­lier. Oth­er work­shops are run­ning and look inter­est­ing, but I’m espe­cial­ly excit­ed about the prospect of work­ing with Mar­tone and not only learn­ing more about short fic­tion (and maybe some […]

A flash fic­tion writ­ing prompt that has some­thing to do with adverbs and adjec­tives.

Some tell-tale signs that you’ve devel­oped a lit­er­ary flash crush.

Fifty word micro fic­tion, part of the Sun­day Micro series.

Michael Ventura’s “The Tal­ent of the Room” dis­cuss­es the need for writ­ers to learn to tol­er­ate the anx­i­ety of writ­ing hour after hour, day after day, year after year.

Sun­day Micro Fic­tion From Zoetrope Vir­tu­al Stu­dio Flash Work­shop, FF Fac­tor. Rich Osgood’s Five Word Prompt: oint­ment lurid post­card ton­ic lun­cheonette

I first heard the term “fix­i­ty” in a poet­ry class I took with the won­der­ful Ter­ri Brown-David­son: “Fix­i­ty. What fix­i­ty, any­way? Sup­pos­ed­ly, it’s the per­fect poet­ic word for the per­fect poet­ic occa­sion.”

With her tal­ent and wis­dom, Kim Chin­quee is able to dan­ger­ous­ly flirt with both poet­ry and fic­tion, and cre­ate provoca­tive art. Her newest book Pret­ty is no excep­tion.