Interview with Meg Pokrass, Founding Co-Editor of the Best Microfiction Anthology Series
Steven John interviews Meg Pokrass, Founding Co-Editor (with Gary Fincke) of the Best Microfiction series about the anthology
And the Best of the Net Nominees are…
Congratulations to this year’s Best of the Net nominees!
Get Ready for the 2025 New Flash Fiction Prize
Our annual flash contest will be open for submissions September 15 to October 15. Grant Faulkner will judge this year’s entries.
Issue 38
Our tenth anniversary issues features new work from Ashleigh Adams, Mitchell Gauvin, S.A. Greene, Neil James, Rebecca Klassen, Kathryn Kulpa, Elana Lavine, Andrew Graham Martin, Gregory Meece, Sumitra Singam, and Vijayalakshmi Sridhar.
On Mentors, Writing in Anxious Times, Numbers, and Writing to Themes
Issue 38 contributors weigh in on mentorship, writing in anxious times, and what to make of themes.
I Know Someday You’ll Have a Beautiful Life by Sumitra Singam
Your sixteen-year-old body feels a spark—indecent, unladylike. The guitar licks the flames eager. You can see the disapproving faces of your parents.