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Story Tapes is a new podcast created by Bay Area writers Eliza Smith and Faith Gardner to showcase flash fiction.
In the past few months, they’ve featured writers reading their own work and others’, as well as answering interview questions about their process, intentions, and choices.
...moreWigleaf recently published their annual compilation of the top (very) short fictions. Aimee Bender, Stuart Dybek, and Rumpus columnist Steve Almond are among the 50 writers featured this year.
...moreGuernica Daily just kicked-off a new flash fiction series “designed to showcase up-and-coming writers and artists.” Check out the first entry of the series and consider flashing them your own piece?
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The winner of this year’s Drue Heinz prize writes flash fiction that bursts with poetic imagery and focuses on lust and the death of beauty.
In stories that range through history, serendipity, speculation, whimsy, and horror, Daniel Olivas chronicles the lives of characters who have loved—and lost—Los Angeles.
Chelsea Martin’s strange collection of miscellany evokes the loneliness of life lived through technology.
The Rumpus dispatched dozens of our top reporters to Chicago. None of them were heard from again.
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