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A flash fiction story—sometimes called a short short or nanofiction—is one that has a complete plot in under 1,500 words. Some flash fiction pieces consist of as few as five or six words. But no matter how short, flash fiction stories still contain the main elements of a plot. There...
Juke publishes a few short-shorts every couple of weeks, and they’re looking for fiction under 2,500 words. They not only publish online but have print issues, too. 22.Cheap Pop– less than 1,000 visitors monthly Cheap Pop is new but they got verve. They have a micro-fiction contest...
One flash fiction story under 500 words a week for 13 weeks – this is your challenge. Wow, here we are on Week 13. It's amazing streaking with all of you. Each week I'm excited to read your stories and see what you've all come up. I must say that I'm impressed with the div...
Though understated, these final words open the reader’s eyes to the message of the story: when we disregard science for 700 words or so, we can enjoy the delightfully endless possibilities of the imagination. Now you’ve got some flash fiction pointers, it’s time toexperiment.This form ...
The only difference is the word count limit - flash fiction under 1,000 words, instead of short stories of 3,000 to 8,000 words. It just seems odd to reject this application for the reasons you stated when there is already another record for short stories in a similar format. ...
Some authors (Vanessa Gebbie and Robert Scotellaro, for example) use “micro fiction” to differentiate their very short flashes from their flashes. Fair enough – we know what they mean. “Drabbles” (stories of exactly 100 words) are now an established form under the “flash fiction” umb...
How hard was it to whittle your version of ‘Rattle’ down to 350 words? Did you find the experience frustrating or liberating? My first attempts at flash fiction some years ago were dismal failures. I hadn’t expected it to be so difficult. It was also very sobering to realise that ...
Catherine Ogston lives in Scotland. Flash pieces have appeared in anthologies by Bath Flash Fiction Award, National Flash Fiction Day, Reflex Press plus others. She placed first in TD;LR Press 2022, Flash 500 in Nov 2023 and won the Scottish Association of Writers Flash Fiction trophy in March...
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