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Place: Frankie McMillan
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Archival Brilliance — 1

Best Microfiction 2019

A new anthology edited by Meg Pokrass,
Gary Fincke, and special guest editor
Dan Chaon. Available now!

Praise for this anthology:
“Beautiful, brooding, erotic, mysterious, idiosyncratic words shaped into thunderbolts, shocks that reveal what we didn’t know we know. Words filled with promise, bewildering and enchanting us. This is flash at its best, flash now”
—Jane Ciabattari
Available for order here

Alligators at Night

New flash fiction collection
from founding editor Meg Pokrass

Praise for Alligators at Night:
“These small fictions are elegantly wrought,
diamond-hard,and supremely satisfying”
—Robert Scotellaro, co-editor, New Micro
Available here and now!

Issues

Issue # 17 (current)
Issue # 16
Issue # 15
Issue # 14
Issue # 13
Issue # 12
Issue # 11
Issue # 10
Issue # 9
Issue # 8
Issue # 7
Issue # 6
Issue # 5
Issue # 4
Issue # 3
Issue # 2
Issue # 1

Special Features

Feature # 1 — Two by Two Story Collaborations
Feature # 2 — Seven Banned Words
Feature # 3 — Nin Andrews
Feature # 4 — Anton Chekhov Prize 2018
Feature # 5 — Jim Heylen
Feature # 6 — Love Story Bouquet
Feature # 7 — Anton Chekhov Prize 2019

Columns

Dear Leo # 1 — Usually I Write Fiction and I Lie
Dear Leo # 2 — Even If It Was Crap
Dear Leo # 3 — Dylan McKay is Not That Into Me
Dear Leo # 4 — How to Talk to Dead Writers
Dear Leo # 5 — Talk to Someone Weird
Dear Leo # 6 — Writing Your Inner Child

Interviews

Interview with Meg Pokrass
Interview with Tommy Dean
Interview with Stuart Dybek
Interview with Roy Kesey
Interview with Robert Scotellaro
Interview with Tiff Holland
Interview with Matt Sailor
Interview with Sarah Freligh
Interview with Lynn Mundell and Grant Faulkner
Interview with Tania Hershman
Interview with Charmaine Wilkerson
Interview with Sherrie Flick
Interview with Christopher Merkner
Interview with Damian Dressick
Interview with Grant Faulkner
Interview with James Thomas
Interview with Kathy Fish
Interview with Melissa Fraterrigo
Interview with Michael Martone
Interview with Tara Laskowski
Interview with Kyle Hemmings
Interview with Lynn Mundell
Interview with Curtis Smith
Interview with Nancy Stohlman
Interview with Meg Tuite
Interview with Kathleen McGookey
Interview with Molly Giles
Interview with Len Kuntz
Interview with Paul Beckman
Interview with Jim Heynen
Interview with Roberta Allen
Interview with Michelle Elvy
Interview with Barry Basden
Interview with Pamela Painter
Interview with Pedro Ponce
Interview with Theresa Wyatt
Interview with Amelia Gray
Interview with Lou Beach
Interview with Jeff Landon
Interview with Robert Vaughan
Interview with Fiona J. Mackintosh
Interview with Leonora Desar
Interview with Beth Gilstrap-Barnes
Interview with Melissa Goode

Place Stories

Place: Sheree Shatsky
Place: Sudha Balagopal
Place: Frances Gapper
Place: Mason Binkley
Place: Steven John

Triptychs

Triptych: Angela Readman
Triptych: Barry Basden
Triptych: Charmaine Wilkerson
Triptych: Christina Dalcher
Triptych: Elisabeth Ingram Wallace
Triptych: Fiona J. Mackintosh
Triptych: Jason Jackson
Triptych: Jude Higgins
Triptych: Kathryn Kulpa
Triptych: Len Kuntz
Triptych: Leonora Desar
Triptych: Lynn Mundell
Triptych: Mary Thompson
Triptych: Meg Pokrass
Triptych: Melissa Goode
Triptych: Michael Loveday
Triptych: Michelle Ross
Triptych: Nuala O’Connor
Triptych: Paul Beckman
Triptych: Rebekah Bergman
Triptych: Riham Adly
Triptych: Robert Vaughan
Triptych: Sarah Freligh
Triptych: Sharon Telfer
Triptych: Stephanie Hutton
Triptych: Tania Hershman