I’m teaming up with the wonderful Word Tango in September for a new online flash fiction course, Sept. 23-25th! Stay tuned for more details and get on the mailing list for updates and first dibs on registration. These are always a lot of fun for me to teach (and fun for the participants too, I
Lovely Marie Gethins interviewed me about all things flash and my recent co-authored flash collection with Robert Vaughan, RIFT, for The Short Story. Marie asked great questions! I have a couple of new stories published in stellar places! First, “Imagine Your Daughter Is a Cherry Red Convertible,” a micro under 100 words, at New World
We have a few remaining openings for our week-long workshop (Aug. 20-26th): “Exploratory Fiction: Tap In, Dig Deep, Discover Voice.” Robert Vaughan and I will be leading a unique writing experience at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House once owned by Dennis Hopper and visited by the likes of Martha Graham, Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keefe, D.H.
Nancy was recently injured in a head-on collision by a car going 60 mph. She is currently hospitalized and will not be able to teach this summer as she continues to heal. I can think of few writers in the literary community as energetic, inspiring, and generous as Nancy. Please contribute if you can: Go
Well. I am astounded and grateful that two of my stories were chosen by Matthew Salesses for the 2015 Wigleaf Top 50. Both stories, “Ripe” and “Tool” were published by Lauren Becker, editor of the wonderful Corium Magazine. I also thrilled that my story “The Children Called Him Yuck-Yuck” published by Ellen Parker in FRiGG,
This is the most fun thing to happen in my writing life in a long time. Two of my stories have been chosen to be sold in the first ever story vending machine in the U.S. This has been introduced already in France and Coppola unveiled his story machine at Zoetrope Cafe in San Francisco
Hey, the snow has finally melted here in Colorado and there’s some good news to share! Co-author Robert Vaughan and I were thrilled by this lovely review of RIFT by Amelia White at the JMWW blog: “There were moments of peace and violence, of connection and loneliness, of levity and weight. Ultimately, the beauty of
During our time in L.A. for AWP Robert Vaughan and I visited Brad Listi and chatted in his garage where he makes the fabulous Other People Podcast. We conversed at length about our co-authored collection, Rift, life, our childhoods, current events, and more. We’re told this was Brad’s first interview with flash fiction writers! He
Tara Masih and Queen’s Ferry Press have announced the next guest editor for The Best Small Fictions. So exciting! The Best Small Fictions 2017 Announcing Guest Editor Amy Hempel ”The Best Small Fictions . . . could be at the forefront of a burgeoning cultural movement.” —Allan Drew for The Newtown Review of Books Coming
I’m excited that AWP is in L.A. this year! Yay, for warmer weather than we typically have to deal with at the annual AWP conference! I really hope to see as many friends as possible this year, but it’s a huge conference and I’ve come to expect that I won’t get to see everyone I