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The Art of Flash Fiction
Free monthly Flash Fiction Craft Articles & Prompts / Weekly Posts & Community Writing Events for paid subscribers from Writer & Teacher, Kathy Fish
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Write Together Session Links for THIS Friday, Aug. 14th!
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August Write Together is THIS Friday, August 14th - This Week's Prompt: Exploring the Hidden
“Woman Seen from the Back,” Onésipe Aguado de las Marismas French, ca.
Memories of Home: Mapping the Senses
Photo by oxana v on Unsplash
Craft Book Recommendation + This Week's Prompt
(Cover image of Short Form Creative Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, Second Edition, (Bloomsbury, 2026), H.K.
"Wash the clothes on Monday..." Writing the Imperative in Flash Fiction
an unconventional point of view
Creative Magic: Twenty-Three Fun & HUMAN Ways to Transform Your Lackluster Draft
Or create a whole new story out of thin air!
CORRECT LINK FOR 7:00 PM EDT WRITE TOGETHER SESSION
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LINKS FOR TOMORROW'S (JULY 10TH) WRITE TOGETHER SESSIONS!
Let's write!
CORRECTION: Write Together Times for Friday, July 10th: 10:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time
My newsletter said 10:00 a.m.
The Architecture of Impact: What Your Flash Looks Like on the Page
More lessons from the poets...
Time, Movement, Change: The Engine of Flash
With examples from Ada Limón, DeMisty Bellinger, & Lydia Davis
Poetic Forms & Devices in Flash Fiction Part Four - Abecedarians, Anaphora, & More
(From The Comical Hotch Potch, or The Alphabet turn'd Posture-Master, 1782 —Public Domain)
Written in Stone: Writer Commandments
and the joy of (sometimes) breaking them
Links for TOMORROW'S (6/12) Write Together Sessions!
Summer can be a busy time.
A True Literary Hybrid: Poetic Forms & Devices in Flash Fiction Part Three - The Haibun
Poetic Forms & Devices in Flash Fiction: Part Three
Emotional Concision: Poetic Forms & Devices in Flash Part Two - The Pantoum
Grisaille Lancet Top with Foliate Pattern, French, ca.
"Asbestos Gloves": Poetic Forms & Devices in Flash Part One - The Sestina Flash
Photo by David von Diemar on Unsplash
In Defense of the Lowly Writing Prompt...
...and anything else that gets you to the page
Neither Here Nor There: Layered Liminality
Jack Lemmon & Sandy Dennis, The Out-of-Towners, 1970