Nancy Stohlman is running two amazing flash fiction retreats this summer, both in gorgeous, inspiring venues, and she has asked me back to teach! Consider joining us. These spots are selling out quickly! Go HERE for more information! We’d love for you to join us.
Behold this beauty, the Summer, 2021, 50th Anniversary issue of Ploughshares, guest edited by the amazing Aimee Bender! I was traveling with my daughter when my contributor’s copy arrived back home. I couldn’t resist stopping into Downtown Books & News in Asheville, NC, and was delighted to find it on the shelf amongst all the
UK independent publisher, Dahlia Books, hosts a great monthly reading series, A Brief Pause, and I have been invited to speak and read at their next event this Tuesday, May 25th. I’d love for you to join me! I will be reading selections from my newest collection, Wild Life: Collected Works, and I will be
Photo by Nikolas Noonan on Unsplash This is kind of old news, but I’m testing my new website! I was so excited to see that my flash, “Muriel’s Cyclone,” made the finalist list for Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net. The piece was curated by Tara Masih for Mom Egg Review’s MER VOX folio series.
So honored to be invited to chat with writer friend Davin Malasarn on his new podcast, “The Artist Statement” through the Grantham Foundation! I follow the esteemed Colm Tóibín, who was featured in the inaugural episode. We talked about all things writing and flash fiction and I read a few of my stories, two newer
Friends, I’m hugely excited to take part in this year’s Flash Fiction Festival, co-sponsored by Hoot Review and A Novel Idea, to be held online Saturday and Sunday, February 27th & 28th! My workshop will run from 10:00 – 11:30 EST on Saturday, thus kicking off the whole weekend of awesome workshops, panels, and readings.
For the past several months, I have been writing short craft essays on flash fiction toward the goal of compiling them into a guidebook/workbook. Seeing so many writers feeling stuck or needing inspiration right now, I’ve decided to offer them in monthly installments (along with a writing prompt). I announced this on Twitter and sent
As the year to end all years winds to a close, I’m so honored and grateful to have been awarded the Copper Nickel Editors’ Prize in prose for my story, “Bear Walks into a Bar.” Here is an excerpt:
Two much-needed pieces of good news! My story, “Muriel’s Cyclone,” was nominated for Best of the Net by the editors of Mom Egg Review. This piece was part of a folio of climate change/motherhood flash fiction entitled “Riding the Dangeroouos Wind” curated by Tara L. Masih and includes works by Tara Laskowski, Claudia Smith, Mary
I’m happy to have had two new stories published this week! This is work I’m very proud of: W. Todd Kaneko is stepping down as co-editor of the glorious journal, Waxwing Magazine, with issue XXI just released on Monday. I am deeply honored to have a place in the Music section of the issue with