Writing Soul Etchings: a Collection of Short Stories, by Sandra Arnold
Reading Time: 4 minutes Three years ago a poet friend, Jim Norcliffe, told me about the upcoming New...
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Flash Fiction: Inciting Incidents and Why A Dog Tilts Its Head, by Adam Lock
Reading Time: 7 minutes Believe it or not, the inspiration for this article came whilst talking to my...
Chekhov’s Letters, by Peter Jordan
Reading Time: 7 minutes In 2008, I had to submit a 20,000-word dissertation of short stories for a...
Magical Realism and the Contemporary Short Story in the UK, by K. T. Wimhurst
Reading Time: 16 minutes Rental Hearts, Lion Lovers and Girlfriends in the Deep Freezer: Magical Realism and the...
Of Mice and Men: the Short Fiction of John Steinbeck
Reading Time: 15 minutes In the Penguin compilation volume, The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (2009 [1953]), the...
Alles Kaputt! Mary Postgate Revisited, by Mike Smith
Reading Time: 6 minutes It could be that one of the greatest obstacles to overcome when reading Kipling’s...
What Makes a Winning Flash Fiction? by Emily Devane
Reading Time: 5 minutes How To Write Winning Flash Fiction What makes winning flash fiction? There’s no single...
On Writing Historical Flash Fiction (Part II), by Sophie Van LLewyn
Reading Time: 8 minutes This essay is the sixth and final in this series by Sophie Van Llewyn....
On Writing Historical Flash Fiction (Part I), by Sophie Van Llewyn
Reading Time: 13 minutes This essay is the fifth in this series by Sophie Van Llewyn. Read her...