Field guide to writing flash fiction : tips from editors, teachers, and writers in the field / edited by Tara L. Masih.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Masih, Tara L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short story--Authorship.

Short story.

Short story--Technique.

Fiction--Authorship.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Flash fiction

Place of Publication:

Brookline, MA : Rose Metal Press, [2009]

Contents:

In defense of the exercise : You and the piano bench / Pamela Painter

Contemporary and historical roots of flash fiction : That "v" word / Nathan Leslie

Old wine in new bottles? Flash fiction from contemporary China / Shouhua Qi

The myth-ing link (or, linking up to myth) / Pamelyn Casto

Flash fiction from embryo to (very short) adult / Tom Hazuka

Finding freedom and feeling in the form : "Cheers," (or) how I taught myself to write / Jayne Anne Phillips

Great thoughts / Stuart Dybek

Beginnings and endings : Titled : the title : a short story story's own short short story / Michael Martone

Fireworks and burnt toast : the process of opening up your writing / Vanessa Gebbie

Smart surprise in flash fiction / Jennifer Pieroni

Making flash count / Randall Brown

Imagery as inspiration : Forty stories in the desert / Lex Williford

Staying true to the image / Robert Shapard

Hanging fire : a meta-narrative on flash fiction / Stace Budzko

Poetry versus prose : A short story theory / Robert Olen Butler

Getting the lead out : how writing really bad poetry yields really better short stories / Steve Almond

Flash fiction, prose poetry, and men jumping out of windows : searching for plot and finding definitions / Kim Chinquee

Taking risks : Put yourself in danger : an examination of Diane Williams's courageous short / Deb Olin Unferth

Flash in a pan : writing outside of time's boundaries / Sherrie Flick

Focusing and editing : Expose yourself to flash / Mark Budman

Plaster dust and sleeping jockeys : tapping your story for load-bearing sentences / Pia Z. Ehrhardt

Editing and revising flash fiction : how to COAP / Rusty Barnes

The future of flash fiction : Writing fixed-form narratives : who's going to stop you? / Bruce Holland Rogers

A flash before the bang / Julio Ortega

A call to action : On writing flash fiction / Ron Carlson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164).

ISBN:

9780978984861

0978984862

OCLC:

427527335