Writing Short Stories: Advice for Kids, Beginnings (Part I) TSS Publishing·April 14, 2020Imagine this: It’s a late Tuesday evening and you’ve said goodnight to everyone. You’ve gone upstairs to bed....
20+ Recommended Writing Guides TSS Publishing·January 29, 2020Earlier today I put out a call on Twitter asking for some recommendations for writing guides that went...
Hemingway and Parataxis, by Peter Jordan TSS Publishing·January 23, 2020When the 22-year-old Ernest Hemingway relocated to Paris in 1921 some of the century’s greatest experimental writers were...
Crafting Short Stories: A Good Opening Sentence, by Peter Jordan TSS Publishing·September 20, 2019Essay by Peter Jordan The opening sentence is crucial in a short story, yet so many writers get...
Best British & Irish Flash Fiction 2018-2019 TSS Publishing·September 1, 2019TSS Publishing is proud to present our list of the very best fifty British and Irish Flash Fiction...
Doris Lessing: Behind the Door of Room Nineteen, by Kate Jones TSS Publishing·July 30, 2019I came to Doris Lessing’s story ‘To Room Nineteen’ several years after reading her seminal novel The Golden...
See you Jimmy! Further Considerations of Hemingway’s ‘Up in Michigan’ by Mike Smith TSS Publishing·July 28, 2019Peter Jordan’s essay on ‘priming’ in this early Hemingway story sent me scurrying to the Finca Vigia collection....
Writing Soul Etchings: a Collection of Short Stories, by Sandra Arnold TSS Publishing·July 26, 2019Three years ago a poet friend, Jim Norcliffe, told me about the upcoming New Zealand National Flash Fiction...