Ryan Habermeyer: Necronauts
An obituary is a snapshot of a life, and the novel is like a series of snapshots scrapbooked together into a collage. So, it’s a novel-in-flash.
Patricia Q. Bidar: Pardon Me For Moonwalking
Man, is anything more fun than writing flash fiction?
Kim Magowan: The Last Day
It would be land similar to water, land that wanted to be water. I’m picturing silvery, moonscape-y sand flats.
Yasmina Din Madden: You Know Nothing
Welcome again to the new interview series at 100 Word Story to promote forthcoming and recently published books by our contributors. Authors answer five questions, each in 100 words or fewer. If you’re a contributor with a new book and you’d like to be included in this...
JR Fenn: Tiny Vessels
An image, a string of images, isn’t enough. It’s a starting point, the grain of sand under the oyster’s tongue, but the storyworld needs to be set into motion, take on a life of its own, and I can’t make that happen. All I can do is create the conditions.
Sherrie Flick: I Have Not Considered Consequences
Here’s one of my favorites from I Have Not Considered Consequences. It’s from the story “Breaking”: “Because it’s 1991 and the world has just surprisingly, sledgehammeringly opened up into fissures that haven’t quite settled into place yet, the bear looks guilty.”
Lauren D. Woods: The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe
Welcome to the first interview in a new series at 100 Word Story to promote forthcoming and recently published books by our contributors. Authors answer five questions, each in 100 words or fewer. If you’re a contributor with a new book and you’d like to be included in this...
Talking Flash with Nancy Stohlman: Exercises in Cross-Pollination
Nancy Stohlman is drawn to the performative in life and fiction, which means her words don't seem to live just on the page. They tend to always be looking for a stage.
Kim Addonizio Confined
Kim Addonizio tells writers to "imagine a sentence as a hall with a series of doors," in her book Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within. We asked Addonizio about the tiny rooms that some of those doors open upon to find out what drama, what lyricism, what life can reside in the small spaces of life.
Kathy Fish: Finding Significance in the Small Moments of Life
The word "precision" is mentioned by many who describe Kathy Fish's flash fiction, along with "effortless" and "unparalleled" and "masterful," so we decided to talk with Fish and explore her fiction-writing process.
Sherrie Flick: Finding Truth in Compression
Why did we interview Sherrie Flick? First, we loved Sherrie Flick’s recent story collection, Whiskey, Etc. Second, we’ve heard a lot of great things about Sherrie from others in the flash fiction community, such as, "Wow, you have to read Sherrie Flick's flash," and "She's an amazing food writer." Third, we wished we would have asked her questions about Pittsburgh, but fortunately she told us about a road trip she’d have with Gertrude Stein.
One Plus One Equals 3: A Couple Co-Writing as ‘Alvarado’
Jacqueline Doyle and Stephen D. Gutierrez are San Francisco Bay Area writers and professors, each with an impressive writing résumé. Additionally, the spouses co-write as the invented Alvarado O’Brien. This time around on 100 Words, learn about three flash aficionados at once!
Robert Scotellaro: The Secret Is Out
Bob Scotellaro, a noted master of flash fiction, talks about the art of writing short shorts and what he learned during San Francisco's Underground Comix scene, when he chummed around with famed cartoonists Robert Crumb and Art Spiegelman.
‘Writerly Redemption’ Paved with 100-Word Stories
Meet Jane McDermott, author of "Look Busy: One hundred 100-word stories by and for the easily distracted," published by Fourteen Hills Press. McDermott’s work runs the range of styles and moods, from the darkly comic to the unabashedly romantic.
Grant Faulkner Writes about Life’s Fissures
Grant Faulkner, the author of Fissures, is a living Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. He is both the director of National Novel Writing Month and the co-founder of 100 Word Story.
Tara Masih: Flash as One Deep Truth
Tara Masih was attracted to writing flash as a high school student because it allowed her to get to the "heart of a scene."
Kim Chinquee: Flash as Little Gems
Kim Chinquee has lived all over and done many things, from farming as a child to a career as a military medical technologist. Then she took one creative writing class and a new course was set.
Stuart Dybek: Blurring Forms
Stuart Dybek is a quiet master of the American short story. He doesn't cry out for attention, and he doesn't seem to need it, yet his stories demand re-reading in a way that few authors do.
