IWW Members' Publishing Successes For The Week Ending 1/18/26

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Pamelyn Casto

A new book's just been released, titled Flash Fiction Writing Tips: Penned By Masterful Flash Writers From Around The Globe (Paperback - December 26, 2025) curated by Karen Schauber.

The book includes my tip on using defamiliarization in writing flash fiction/literature (useful for poets and prose poets, too). I'm delighted my advice is included with such outstanding writers. What's also pleasing to me is that the magazine published my tip two or three years ago.

I thought that was the end of it. It wasn't. Then I got this news about the release of this book. Some say our words can come back to haunt us. We can also say they sometimes come back to delight us.

I just completed a chapbook project with Kent Dixon titled Flash as Flash Can. It includes my interview with him, several pieces of his writing, and a craft essay. The chapbook is free and will teach you a lot about short-short work. See it here. Do take advantage of this opportunity to learn more about flash literature.

I got the go-ahead for another chapbook project with a well-known writer of haibun, Roberta Beary. I've been busy this evening putting together questions for the interview, and I'm eager to get going with it.

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