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The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field Paperback – May 13, 2009

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Starred Review. Accessible enough for pleasure reading but instructive enough for the classroom, this volume brings together brief essays by 25 writers known for their talent in flash fiction, aka the "short short story," roughly defined as a tale "1-3 pages and 250-1,000 words" long. Along with personal musings on the genre, each author provides a prompt, and their own short piece to illustrate it. Editor and fiction writer Masih provides a remarkably thorough history of flash fiction, dating the phrase "short short story" to a 1926 issue of Collier's Weekly. Contributors include award-winning writer Jayne Anne Phillips, who writes that "one-page fiction should hang in the air of the mind like an image made of smoke"; Shouhua Qi shares her thoughts on the Chinese short short, which they also call a "Smoke-Long story," as in the time it takes to smoke a cigarette; and Vanessa Gebbie, who reminds us of Hemmingway's famous 6-word story: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Robert Olen Butler and Steve Almond discuss the difference between flash fiction and prose poetry, the former remarking that "fiction is the art form of human yearning"; Almond, meanwhile, chronicles his journey from bad poetry to good short stories. An expansive list of further reading rounds out this smart, fun, provocative guide to an increasingly popular form.

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A thoughtful and thought-provoking resource, casting fresh light on the practice of flash fiction. Each essay is a gem, encrusted with outstanding prompts and valuable exercises. Anyone who hopes to write (or teach) the very short fiction form needs to read this book. --Dinty W. Moore, editor of The MAMMOTH Book of Miniscule Fiction

There are many writing guides brought in on the wave of creative writing courses steadily multiplying across the globe. There are good ones and bad ones: the Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction is definitely a good one; I would even say a very good one. It doesn't promise unparalleled success or anything else it can't deliver, but does provide real insight into how writers work in this medium doing by exactly what it says on the cover - providing guidance that gently leads the would-be flash writer along the path to making their own work truly shine. --Jacky Taylor, How Publishing Really Works, online July 27, 2009

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rose Metal Press; First Edition (May 13, 2009)
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  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0978984862
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  1. Sherrie Flick

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    Sherrie Flick is the author of the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting (Flume), the novel Reconsidering Happiness (Bison Books), a semi-finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, the story collection Thank Your Lucky Stars (Autumn House), and the short (short) story collection Whiskey, Etc. (Autumn House), a Foreword INDIES bronze winner for 2016 Best Book of the Year in Short Stories and an Entropy best fiction book of the year. Her debut essay collection, Homing, is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press in Fall 2024.

    She is a senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly, served as series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018 (with Aimee Bender) (Braddock Avenue Books), and is co-editor of Flash Fiction America (with James Thomas and John Dufresne) (W. W. Norton).

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    Tara Lynn Masih is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award for Young Readers. She grew up within a bicultural family in the small harbor town of Northport, situated along the Long Island Sound. Because much of her time was spent on the beaches and in the woods, her writing is often set within the framework of nature, place, and diversity. MY REAL NAME IS HANNA, her bestselling first novel, won multiple awards and was translated into Slovak and Polish. She is editor of the acclaimed ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH FICTION and THE CHALK CIRCLE: INTERCULTURAL PRIZEWINNING ESSAYS (winner of 3 national book awards). Founding series editor of the annual BEST SMALL FICTIONS, her second story collection, HOW WE DISAPPEAR: NOVELLA & STORIES, received a Florida Book Award in General Fiction. www.taramasih.com

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    Kim Chinquee is the author of the collections OH BABY, PRETTY, PISTOL, VEER, SHOT GIRLS, WETSUIT, SNOWDOG, and most recently her novel PIPETTE. Her fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies including NOON, THE NATION, CONJUNCTIONS, PLOUGHSHARES, STORYQUARTERLY, THE INDIANA REVIEW, DENVER QUARTERLY, MISSISSIPPI REVIEW, HUFFINGTON POST, and others. She is the recipient of three Pushcart Prizes and a Henfield Prize, is senior editor of NEW WORLD WRITING, chief editor of ELJ (ELM LEAVES JOURNAL), and co-director of SUNY-BUFFALO STATE's writing major. Her webpage is www.kimchinquee.com

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