May 6, 2020
A reading of dozens of tiny stories from micro-fictionistas,
including guest readers, plus a discussion of the Art of Flash and
prompts—including visual prompts—to write and submit your own, with
a selection to be published on the Flash Fiction Collective
Facebook page.
Author bios:
Jane Ciabattari, author of the short story collection Stealing the
Fire, writes the Between the Lines column for BBC Culture. She is a
former president of the National Book Critics Circle and a member
of the Writers Grotto. Her reviews, interviews and cultural
criticism have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the
Guardian, Paris Review, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe,
among other publications.
Grant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing
Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He has
published two books on writing, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights
and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo, and Brave the Page, a teen
writing guide. He’s also published a collection of 100-word
stories, Fissures, and Nothing Short of 100: Selected Tales from
100 Word Story. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary
magazines, including Tin House, The Southwest Review, and The
Gettysburg Review, and he has been anthologized in collections such
as Norton’s New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction and Best Small
Fictions. His essays on creativity have been published in The New
York Times, Poets & Writers, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer. He
serves on the National Writing Project’s Writer’s Council, Lit
Camp’s Advisory Council, and Aspen Words’ Creative Council. He’s
also the co-host of the podcast Write-minded.
Kirstin Chen‘s second novel, Bury What We Cannot Take (Little A,
March 2018), was named a best book of the year by Entropy,
Popsugar, and Book Bub, and a top pick of the season by Electric
Literature, The Millions, The Rumpus, Harper’s Bazaar, and InStyle.
She is also the author of Soy Sauce for Beginners, an Amazon
bestseller, an O, The Oprah Magazine “book to pick up now,” and a
Glamour book club pick.
She has received awards from the Steinbeck Fellows Program,
Sewanee, Hedgebrook, the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, the Toji
Cultural Foundation, and the National Arts Council of Singapore.
Her writing has appeared in Real Simple, Literary Hub, Writer’s
Digest, Manrepeller, Zyzzyva, and the Best New Singaporean Short
Stories. She holds an MFA from Emerson College and a BA from
Stanford University. Born and raised in Singapore, she lives in San
Francisco, where she is working on a novel about the counterfeit
handbag trade. She teaches creative writing at the University of
San Francisco and in Ashland University’s Low-Residency MFA
Program.
Meg Pokrass is the U.K. based author of six flash fiction
collections, an award-winning collection of prose poetry, and a
novella-in-flash from the Rose Metal Press. Her latest is a flash
fiction collection called The Dog Seated Next To Me, published in
2019 by Pelekinesis Press. A new novella in flash The Smell Of Good
Luck will be published in 2020 by Flash: The International Short
Short Story Press. Meg’s work has been recently anthologized in two
Norton Anthology Readers: New Micro (W.W. Norton & Co, 2018) and
Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton & Co., 2015), The Best
Small Fictions, 2018 and 2019, Wigleaf Top 50, Nothing Short Of
100, and has appeared in 350 literary magazines both online and in
print including Electric Literature, Tin House, McSweeney’s, Five
Points, Smokelong Quarterly, Tupelo Review.
All authors' books available from your favorite indie bookstores,
order from bookshop.org!