Flash Fiction Institute
Flash Fiction Institute, Grant Faulkner, Kim CulbertsonMonthly reflections from the Flash Fiction Institute faculty—featuring writing prompts, craft insights, and resources to sharpen your short-form storytelling.
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The Six-Word Story: The Ultimate Flash Feat
Many posit that the six-word story is the shortest number of words a true story can exist in.
The lore of the six-word form is that it was a type of barroom challenge. Legend has it that Hemingway was asked what the shortest story he...
Side Effects May Vary
“Kim?” My dad’s voice was shaky when I picked up his call. My dad never calls. He leaves the communicating in our family to my mom. I won’t go into too much detail because my parents are very private people and I want to respect that, but t...
A Flash Fiction Quote-a-thon
Sometimes it’s worth pondering the flash fiction form through others’ eyes for inspiration and guidance, which is why we’re offering this bushel of quotes today.
My favorite quote that speaks to how to write flash, read flash, feel flash?...
“Naming the World”
In the essay “How to Name the World,” Bret Anthony Johnston explores how as writers one of our essential jobs is to “name the world” around us through use of concrete, specific detail. He argues that this “naming” is enhanced through actual...
9 Reasons to Write Flash
Fireflies filling the night sky like tiny bright stories.
I discovered flash fiction when I was at work on what I call my “doomed novel.” I’d been working on it for ten years—no, slaving away on it, relentlessly rewriting it in the definit...
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An online school and resource hub for Flash Fiction writers. Subscribe to our Tiny Wonders newsletter for prompts, resources, class announcements, and musings from our faculty.
Grant Faulkner is the co-host of the Memoir Nation podcast, Executive Producer of America’s Next Great Author, the co-founder of 100 Word Story, and the author of The Art of Brevity.
Author of 5 YA novels (Sourcebooks, Scholastic) and 100-word Stories: A Short Form for Expansive Writing. OTHER PEOPLE'S KIDS is her first novel for adults. She teaches and lives in Nor Cal in a (spoiler alert) small town.
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