The Fish Flash Fiction Prize is an opportunity to attempt one of the most interesting and rewarding tasks – to create, in a ...

Don't tell John Dufresne you don't have time to read. In fact, don't tell him you don't have time to write. Instead, spend a little time with his new book, Flash! Writing the Very Short Story. You'll ...

Fresno — There are no wasted words in the fictions of Venita Blackburn. Her stories are quick as lightning; her sentences, entire lifetimes flashing by. A clause might pierce a character’s frailties, ...

For this year’s Flash Fiction Writing Contest as part of the Daniel Boone Regional Library’s One Read program, participants were asked to write a tale inspired by the naming conventions in M.O.

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m in the mood for fiction — lots of it. Fortunately, my TBR ...

The second annual Youth Flash Fiction Writing Contest challenges preschool and school-age children to write a story and submit it for a chance to win prizes. Winners ...

Giving Timothy Gager a word limit isn’t a challenge, it’s how he spends each day at the keyboard. The Dedham native has recently published his 14th book, "Every Day There is Something about Elephants, ...