Not necessarily all stories need every one of these, and you can probably add several to the list, but these five are a great starting place if you have no idea where to begin formulating a flash fiction.
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Flash fiction is a fictional work of extreme brevity[1] that still offers character and plot development. Identified varieties, many of them defined by word count, include the six-word story;[2] the 280-character story (also known as "twitterature");[3] the "dribble" (also known as the "minisaga," 50 words);[2] the "drabble" (also known as "microfiction," 100 words);[2] "sudden fiction" (750 words);[4] "flash fiction" (1,000 words); and "microstory".[5]
In the 1920s flash fiction was referred to as the "short short story" and was associated with Cosmopolitan magazine; and in the 1930s, collected in anthologies such as The American Short Short Story.[8]
Hemingway also wrote 18 pieces of flash fiction that were included in his first short-story collection, In Our Time (1925). It is disputed whether (to win a bet), as alleged, he also wrote the flash fiction "For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn".[19]
English-speaking writers well known for their published flash fiction include Lydia Davis, David Gaffney, Robert Scotellaro, and Nancy Stohlman, and online include Sherrie Flick, Bruce Holland Rogers, Steve Almond, Barbara Henning, Grant Faulkner.
The Arabic-speaking world has produced a number of microstory authors, including the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, whose book Echoes of an Autobiography is composed mainly of such stories. Other flash fiction writers in Arabic include Zakaria Tamer, Haidar Haidar, and Laila al-Othman.
Access to the Internet has enhanced an awareness of flash fiction, with online journals being devoted entirely to the style. SmokeLong Quarterly, founded by Dave Clapper in 2003, is "dedicated to bringing the best flash fiction to the web ... whether written by widely published authors or those new to the craft."[25] Other online flash fiction journals include wigleaf, Flash Fiction Online and Flash Fiction Magazine.[26]
In a CNN article on the subject, the author remarked that the "democratization of communication offered by the Internet has made positive in-roads" in the specific area of flash fiction, and directly influenced the style's popularity.[27] The form is popular, with most online literary journals now publishing flash fiction.
Also, many of the literary magazines below publish micro fiction as well as flash fiction. The difference between the two? Micro fiction tends to run under 300 words, while flash fiction is under 1000 words. So micro fiction is even flashier than flash fiction.
Flash fiction is an art form with buckets of potential in and of itself. And if you decide that flash fiction is the form for you, there are plenty of publications looking to publish and celebrate small but mighty stories. (Some offer payments, too!) Here are six to get you started:
It's odd to me that you list only literary magazines, rather than including genre magazines, many of which are happy to take well-written flash fiction. Daily Science Fiction, for example, pays competitive rates and only publishes shorter fiction. It's a shame to limit writers' exposure to publishing opportunities due to an emphasis on "literary," often non-paying markets.
Literary veterans Nathan Leslie and Rilla Askew have hand-picked each piece to represent some facet of the human experience, the pieces of 1,000 words or less that, incredibly, manage to define beauty, to render truth. Nathan Leslie has published ten books of fiction including Three Men (year) and The Tall Tale of Tommy Twice (year). Like many writers of flash fiction, he is also a poet, having published Night Sweat (year), a collection of poetry. Michell Elvy, assistant editor, has previously served as co-editor of Bonsai: Best Small Stories from Aotearoa New Zealand (2018) and associate editor for Flash Fiction International.
Rohrberger, M. (2011). Origins, development, substance, and design of the short story: How I got hooked on the short story and where it led me. In P. Winther, J. Lothe, & H. Skei (Eds.), The art of brevity: Excursions in short fiction theory and analysis (pp.1-13). Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
Wallen, A. (2009, December). Flash-fiction masters offer tips on the form. [Review of the book The rose metal press field guide to writing flash fiction: Tips from editors, teachers, and writers in the field edited by Masih, T.]. Writer, 122(12).
I strive for a texture of sounds, and those sounds are sometimes in opposition to one another. Different tones and personas competing for precious space in something so brief creates an interesting tension and lends a note of urgency to the writing. This competition between the individual and the group can create a call and response. Often in the process, competing sensibilities clarify and define one another. The voice of one of my personas meets the voice of a community, and an energy rises that might not be there otherwise. This means of exploring experiential material has been something the flash form has allowed me to work with in ways that have also proved useful to my fiction.
Hi, Erika. Thank you, this is a handy list. Prime Number Magazine is also looking for flash nonfiction. In our updates between quarterly issues we publish flash fiction and non-fiction as well as shorter poems. Submission guidelines here:
This page lists flash fiction, micro fiction, sudden fiction, twitterage, twitterature, dribble, drabble, minisaga, nanotale, micro-story and very short fiction competitions, prizes and awards. Please read and make sure you fully understand the rules and the terms & conditions of each competition listed before entering.
The competitions listed on this page used to be included on my short story competitions page, but as flash fiction and micro fiction contests are growing in popularity, I decided to create a separate resource for them.
Marina N I've discovered Sweek thanks to your awesome list, sir! And can't thank you enough for that. That is an excellent platform for aspiring writers allowing us to grow via free reading, writing, and sharing. Love their flash fiction contests!
Miriam H Hi Chris, thank you for the comprehensive list. I've written some flash fiction 1000 words or less. Sorry to see the two sites are inactive. Are there more sites running the same contests? Thanks.
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If you like your fiction entwined with fact (faction), this collection of "flash fiction" (less than 250 words per story) is for you! Flash Fiction Challenges sponsored by the Many of the stories featured here were award-winning entries in the weekly Website Indies Unlimited. Other tales were inspired by or drawn from the short stories found in Cohen's The Road Less Taken: A Collection of Unusual Short Stories, Books 1 and 2, or from some of his mystery/thrillers.
Chris Bower is a writer and teacher based in Chicago. He is the curator and host of the Ray's Tap Reading Series and a founding member of Found Objects Theatre Group. Little Boy Needs Ride, his book of short stories with illustrations by Susie Kirkwood, is forthcoming in 2015 from Curbside Splendor Publishing.Margaret Patton Chapman received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her short fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, The Collagist, SmokeLong, Elimae, and in the anthology The Way We Sleep, among others. She is prose editor for decomP magazine, and currently lives in Durham, North Carolina.Tiff Holland is originally from Ohio. She attended The Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction appear regularly in literary magazines and anthologies and have won several awards. Her novella-in-flash Betty Superman won the Rose Metal Press Fifth Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest in 2011. She has taught creative writing and literature at Kent State, University of Southern Mississippi, and Austin Community College. She currently lives in Hawaii.Meg Pokrass is the author of Damn Sure Right (Press 53, 2011) and Bird Envy (Printed on Paige, 2014). Her flash fiction appears in 200 literary journals including Green Mountains Review, Five Points, storySouth, McSweeney's, and Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton, 2015). Meg serves as associate editor for Rick Barthelme's New World Writing. She lives in San Francisco with a dog and two cats.Aaron Teel hails from Austin, Texas, and is currently an MFA fiction fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. His work has appeared previously in Tin House, Smokelong Quarterly, Monkeybicycle, Brevity, and others. His novella-in-flash Shampoo Horns won the Rose Metal Press Sixth Annual Short Short Chapbook Contest iAuthor City: USA
Writing flash takes practice, but the form has produced some of the most interesting stories in literary canon. This article will discuss how to write flash fiction stories, explore some flash fiction examples, and end with an overview of great flash fiction magazines.
All great flash fiction stories use the following techniques. Before we look at how to write flash fiction, familiarize yourself with these techniques, as it will make your drafts much easier to write and edit. 2ff7e9595c
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