In a world crowded with short blog posts and the blink-of-an-eye news headlines, more writers are cutting their teeth on flash fiction.
Flash fiction--short short stories that hardly break a thousand words apiece--has showed up in writing contests around the Internet. From six word memoirs to quick science fiction in 365 Tomorrows, the genre has inspired plenty of great web writers--but it doesn't mean you are doomed to write short short pieces forever!
Earlier this week, Katherine Sharpe (who founded 400 Words, a journal dedicated to 400-word short, short non-fiction) revealed that another one of her writers just landed a (full-length!) book deal. In honor of this happy occasion, read and write some short short fiction--it's the new proving ground for writers in the Internet age.
"Another 400 Words contrib, Stephanie Gayle, is publishing her novel, My Summer of Southern Discomfort, this month. Her author page at the HarperCollins website reads: “Stephanie Gayle’s work has appeared in the literary magazines 400 Words, The Charles River Review, Edgar Literary Journal, Ellipsis, and The Fourth River.” How cool is that?"
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