Being A Girl in Someone Else’s Story In workshop, writing a girl protagonist was difficult. We just don’t like her, I heard a lot about perfectly ordinary women who were maybe a little bit selfish, a little obtuse. There’s something about her, I heard about girls who...
We Love in Small Moments: a Collection on Love is the debut chapbook by Melissa Boles published by Emerge Literary Journal as part of their Magpies Series. In these 14 stories, Boles looks at many different aspects of love – the main two themes being romantic love and...
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Fractured: What excites you about writing flash fiction/ Are there any limitations to the form? Montes: For me, flash is often about exploring life’s small moments, times when not much seems to be happening, and yet...everything is happening. And so I’m excited by the...
We're proud to announce the 23 titles of our shortlist! The submissions we received were so thrilling, inventive, and affecting that we've had a hard time narrowing down the list! From this list, judge Kevin Brockmeier has chosen his final 3 winners and 2 honorable...
We're proud to announce the 57 titles of our longlist! The submissions we received were so thrilling, inventive, and affecting that we've had a hard time narrowing down the list! From this list, 20-25 stories will make it to the shortlist for judge Kevin Brockmeier to...
The Children of Flash I don’t like novels told from the perspective of children - they make me uncomfortable. I used to think my distaste was for their naivete or the either overly-precocious or under-developed voice adults use when they’re trying to sound young. Now,...
Prisms In my MFA workshops, sometimes, when something felt clunky or not-quite-right, someone would say, “is this just a device?” and my first thought would be: everything is a device. Life is a device. The key is hiding it. When writing, we have to use tricks without...
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Libertas Bayveen O'Connell War Destroys A Man From the Inside Out Edie Meade Look Sky, No Suburbs Meg Tuite I Have Dreamed of The Divine Moustapha Mbacké Diop Empty Words Kristen Loesch Comorbidity Kim Magowan Before She Knew Her Body Was the River Anna Gates Ha...
Libertas Button mashing After Grief Space Whales War Destroys A Man From the Inside Out Look Sky, No Suburbs Snow Days I Have Dreamed of The Divine Soft to the Touch When Water Returns to the Salt Edged Shore Empty Words You Took My Fingerprints And Winked Comorbidity...
This past weekend, I did a deep dive into flash ghost stories. I leaped into the realm of flash specters and those that haunt with an open mind, not in search of something clearly defined as I did when researching flash Fairy tales and Fables. I wanted to find stories...