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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Remember, scary can mean a lot of things—there is nothing scarier than an emergency vet bill on a holiday weekend,...
The Delight of Being a Hermit Crab
I first learned about the Hermit Crab form in grad school from Brenda Miller, who coined the term in 2003 with Suzanne Paola in their book Tell It Slant. I learned it first as a personal essay form and then had fun adapting it into a fictio...
Another Word for Flash Fiction: “Hauntings”
We recently teamed with Freewrite to sponsor a flash fiction contest—500 words or less to the following prompt:
Being haunted is about the intrusion of what was, what could have been, or what could be into what is. Which is actually a p...
Five Fall Submission Opportunities
I’ve written in our newsletter before about how I don’t submit much flash for publication; it’s a quiet, personal practice for me. However, for those who want to publish flash, it can sometimes be daunting to find places to submit. So I tho...
Aphorisms: The Troublemakers of the Short Form
I recently wrote about the six-word story—the ultimate flash feat.
Six-word stories are a good companion to the more philosophically oriented aphorism, which might be the oldest written art form on the planet, dating back to the I Ching fi...
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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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