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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To Submit or Not to Submit
Well, that’s a wrap on our first National Flash Fiction Month here at the Flash Fiction Institute. Thank you to everyone who showed up to write some flash in June. We plan to be back in 2027 with another National Flash Fiction Month with 30...
The Art of Finishing
As we round the corner to the last week of National Flash Fiction Month, I’ve been thinking about what it takes to finish.
Here is what I have noted after a lifetime of writing:
There are the “never-starters,” who have ideas galore...
We're halfway through National Flash Fiction Month!
Back in 2014, I was on deadline for a second YA novel with Scholastic. I was about to get both a knee surgery and my editorial notes on the early draft from my editor within a few days of each other. I had a ten year old who needed my tim...
Flashing with abandon
Since it’s National Flash Fiction Month, I wanted to share my thoughts on the creative process that is at its core: writing with abandon. This is a reprint of an essay that originally appeared in Poets & Writers.
A few years ago I grappl...
5 Hacks for Kickstarting Your Creativity
We posted our first two prompts for National Flash Fiction Month and I hope you are busy drafting your first two stories:
But what happens when you have the prompt and you’re still just staring at the blank page? Here are 5 hacks fo...
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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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