A Newsletter of Interest to Flashers, Flash Fiction Writers, That Is

Flash fiction, it seems, is of great interest to both writers and readers. I see multiple "Yahoos!" on the IWW's Writing list for short pieces published on the Internet or in print.

What is "flash fiction?" Wikipedia notes ...

Flash fiction, also called sudden fiction, micro fiction, postcard fiction or short-short fiction, is a class of short story of limited word length. Definitions differ but is generally accepted that flash fiction stories are at most 200 to 1000 words in length. Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) wrote a six-word flash: "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn." Traditional short stories are 2,000 to 10,000 words in length.

There are hundreds of markets for flash fiction, and there's even an associated genre of flash creative nonfiction. The premier market for that short creative nonfiction is Creative Nonfiction Magazine's associated Web-based publication, Brevity. That magazine has a blog, and it's feed is available in the right-hand column of this blog.

If you find flash your forte, or if you'd simply like to learn more about the genre, a good place to start is the IWW's Prose or Practice lists, and a good resource is Flash Fiction Flash, The Newsletter for Flash Literature Writers, a free email newsletter.