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Charmaine Wilkerson Interview
Author Charmaine Wilkerson, who won both the Sabateur Novella Award and Bath Flash Fiction’s Novella-in-Flash Award for “How to Make a Window Snake”, a novella-in-flash, is interviewed by Meg Pokrass
Interview with Tania Hershman
Tommy Dean asks Tania Hershman to discuss her story in NEW MICRO, and to talk about the craft of writing microfiction.
Interview with Lynn Mundell and Grant Faulkner
An interview in which New Flash Fiction Review’s Meg Pokrass asks 100 Word Story’s illustrious editors Lynn Mundell and Grant Faulkner to talk about the creation of their thrilling new anthology: Nothing Short of 100, a collection of the best 100-word stories from 100 Word Story magazine.
Interview with Sarah Freligh
Meg Pokrass asks Sarah Freligh to discuss her stories in NEW MICRO and to talk about the craft of writing microfiction.
Instruction Manuals for Writing Flash by Georgia Bellas
In the garden of flash: Three mini faux instruction manuals Pay attention to the weeds What’s growing inside you? What will you cultivate? Weeds push through cracks and take over. Look at them. Study them. Why uproot something that is flourishing? A weed by definition...
Interview with Matt Sailor
Tommy Dean asks Matt Sailor to discuss his story “Sea Air” forthcoming in NEW MICRO — EXCEPTIONALLY SHORT FICTION (W.W. Norton & Co., 2018) and to talk about the craft of writing microfiction.
Interview With Tiff Holland
“It’s hot work, being beautiful, but they are willing to make the concessions, to pay cash so their wives cannot track their other lives.”—excerpt from “Hot Work” by Tiff Holland, appearing in NEW MICRO (W.W. Norton & Co, 2018)
Interview with Roy Kesey
Meg Pokrass asks Roy Kesey to discuss his thoughts on creating microfiction. Roy Kesey’s “Learning to Count in a Small Town” and “Calisthenics” are forthcoming in New Micro – Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton & Co, 2018).
Dear Leo # 2
Even If It Was Crap This column is now officially four days late. Actually, make that 11. It was my idea to do one of these every three weeks. This would give me a deadline. I would HAVE to write something, even if it was crap. There are about 13 (an unlucky 13) of...
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
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
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.
Interview with Meg Pokrass
Meg Pokrass, New Flash Fiction Review’s Founding Editor and Norton anthology contributor is interviewed here by Tommy Dean. New Micro: Exceptionally Short Stories, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton & Co. in 2018.
3 NFFR stories in new Norton Anthology
— From Meg Pokrass, NFFR Founding Editor — I'm thrilled to be holding an advanced reading copy of W.W. Norton's anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short fiction edited by Norton Anthology's editor James Thomas and microfiction author Robert Scotellaro! I was delighted...
Dear Leo # 1
How to deal with being a failed writer, writing to get in someone’s pants, writing with the blood, and a bunch of other stuff by Leonora Desar Truth alert! (Usually I write fiction and I lie.) The other week I spoke to my friend’s class. Then I wrote them this...
The Creative Process
—The Creative Process (Paris) in Collaboration with NFFR— We’re very excited here at New Flash Fiction Review! A handful of excerpts from New Flash Fiction Review‘s last 5 years have been selected by The Creative Process for an upcoming exhibition as part of the...
Issue 12
New flash by Robert Scotellaro, Jason Jackson, Robert Lopez & Eva Ruiz, Sudha Balagol, Jo Davies, Anita Goveas, C.E. Shue, Stacy Trautwein Burns, Leonora Desar, Tommy Dean, Michelle Ross, Laura Tansley, Traci Skuce, David Galef, and Jacalyn Eis.
Issue 11
New flash fiction by Kathryn Ordiway, Sarah Salway, Fred Muratori, Melanie Márquez Adams, Elaine Chiew, Kim Magowan, Raki Kopernik, Justin Herrmann, Nancy Tingley, Hardy Griffin, Joy Kennedy-O’Neill, James Hartman, and Nod Ghosh.
Special Issue: Banned CDC Words
This special issue collects work published as part of our “Banned CDC Words” feature. The prompt is in response to the fight over seven health-related words the Trump administration instructed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to avoid in its 2019 budget request.