Interview with Stuart Dybek

Interview with Stuart Dybek

Tommy Dean asks Stuart Dybek to discuss the unique properties and variations particular to short form writing. Stuart Dybek’s story “Initiation” is forthcoming in New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton & Co, 2018) and was originally published in New Flash Fiction Review’s Issue #4, guest edited by Robert Shapard.

Notes from the Slush Pile by Al Kratz

Beginnings   I’d like to share some ideas on beginnings that occurred to me after a recent run through the slush pile. REM wrote a great song called Begin the Begin on their album, Life’s Rich Pageant. It started: Birdie in the hand for life’s rich demand. A...
Interview with Tommy Dean

Interview with Tommy Dean

We’re thrilled to have you with us at NFFR Tommy as Director of Interviews! Will you tell us about what you’ll be focusing on with your interview series?

Issue 13

Issue 13

New flash by Jeff Landon, Robert Shapard, Nancy Stohlman, Angela Readman, Sandra Arnold, Christopher Allen, Jeff Friedman, Justin Herrmann, Ron Burch, Rae Kim, Anne Summerfield, Claire Polders, Carolyn Oliver, MJ McGinn, Clio Velentza, Epiphany Ferrell, Elise Blackwell, James Coffey, Tasha Cotter, Lynne Barrett, and Christopher M. Drew.