Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction by Nancy Stohlman

Nancy Stohlman's book Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction, won a 2021 Reader Views Gold Award and was re-released as an audiobook in 2022. Her other books include After the Rapture, (forthcoming 2023), Madam Velvet's Cabaret of Oddities, and The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories, among others. Her work has appeared in the Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction and The Best Small Fictions 2019, as well as adapted for both the stage and screen. She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder and around the world.

To learn more about Nancy Stohlman and her work, visit https://nancystohlman.com/

 

Topics of Conversation:

• About Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction
• What is Flash Fiction?
• Different forms of Flash
• How writing Flash improves your writing overall
• Flash Myths
• Flash Workshops, Getting Started with Flash
• What's next for Nancy Stohlman?

 

GOING SHORT: AN INVITATION TO FLASH FICTION

Flash fiction is changing the way we tell stories. Carving away the excess, eliminating all but the most essential, flash fiction is putting the story through a literary dehydrator, leaving the meat without the fat. And it only looks easy.

Enter Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction. In this, her treatise on the form, veteran writer Nancy Stohlman takes us on a flash fiction journey: from creating, sculpting, revisioning and collecting stories to best practices for writers in any genre. It is both instructive and conversational, witty and practical, and presented in flash fiction chapters that demonstrate the form as they discuss it. If you’re already a flash fiction lover, this book will be a dose of inspiration. If you teach flash fiction, you’ll want it as part of your repertoire. And if you’re new to the form, you might just find yourself ready to begin.

 

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