One of the beautiful things about writing colonies, besides the nature that often surrounds, the artwork being created, and the solitude, is the amazing people you meet, some of whom become life-long friends. Such is the case with Elizabeth Evans, whom I met at MacDowell one summer probably more decades ago than either of us [...]
Meg Tuite is one of those creative people who's brilliant at everything she does. Her fiction and poetry are stunning and her main form, but you should see her paintings and even the wonderful décor and yard art in the backyard of her adorable adobe home in the Southwest. Meg's fiction is out of this [...]
Peter Cherches has been writing short-prose since before cute phrases like “Flash Fiction” or “Short Shorts” were coined to characterize the genre. His first books came out in the early 1980’s, from notable downtown New York presses like Red Dust and Benzene. Back then, in addition to publishing his pieces widely in both mainstream and [...]
Part of an ongoing series by Bonnie ZoBell, entitled "Creating and Publishing a Flash Chapbook." This originally appeared in Flash Fiction Chronicles. by Bonnie ZoBell I’m going to tell you what I know from my own experience and what I’ve heard from other writers. However, I’m also going to rely largely on fiction chapbook editors [...]
By Bonnie ZoBell Nate Jordon's extraordinary new chapbook The Weekender holds nothing back but takes us right inside a jail and fairly slams us—no, not up Nothing is held back inside the Merced County Corrections Facility. Sure, there is the cheek spread and full cavity search we've all heard about, but here we're told in a human tone [...]