Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World

Author: James Thomas
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393352420
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
A dazzling new anthology of the very best very short fiction from around the world. What is a flash fiction called in other countries? In Latin America it is a micro, in Denmark kortprosa, in Bulgaria mikro razkaz. These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph-length novel, a scientific report on volcanic fireflies that proliferate in nightclubs. Flash has always—and everywhere—been a form of experiment, of possibility. A new entry in the lauded Flash and Sudden Fiction anthologies, this collection includes 86 of the most beautiful, provocative, and moving narratives by authors from six continents, including best-selling writer Etgar Keret, Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah, Korean screenwriter Kim Young-ha, Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, and Argentinian “Queen of the Microstory” Ana María Shua, among many others. These brilliantly chosen stories challenge readers to widen their vision and celebrate both the local and the universal.

Branching Out: International Tales of Brilliant Flash Fiction

Author: Dawn Lowe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781639014033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Collection of 300-word flash fiction stories from around the world created by Brilliant Flash Fiction, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

Flash Fiction America: 73 Very Short Stories

Author: James Thomas
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393358038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
A spectacular new anthology of the best short-short fiction from across the United States. It has been more than thirty years since the term “flash fiction” was first coined, perfectly describing the power in the brevity of these stories, each under 1,000 words. Since then, the form has taken hold in the American imagination. For this latest installment in the popular Flash Fiction series, James Thomas, Sherrie Flick, and John Dufresne have searched far and wide for the most distinctive American voices in short-short fiction. The 73 stories collected here speak to the diversity of the American experience and range from the experimental to the narrative, from the whimsical to the gritty. Featuring fiction from writers both established and new, including Aimee Bender, K-Ming Chang, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Bryan Washington, Robert Scotellaro, and Luis Alberto Urrea, Flash Fiction America is a brilliant collection, radiating creativity and bringing together some of the most compelling and exciting contemporary writers in the United States.

Sudden Fiction International

Author: Robert Shapard
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393306132
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342

Book Description
Following the recent popular success of Sudden Fiction, this volume enters new realms to gather more than fifty of the best and most compelling short stories--each complete and no more than five pages--from all over the world.

Fast Forward

Author: K. Scott Forman
Publisher: Fast Forward Press
ISBN: 9780981785226
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Fiction. "If you'd rather be rapt for a moment reading a flash than strung out for pages in a novel, FAST FORWARD is for you. It's the best flash fiction around--a book full of raptures"--Robert Shapard, editor of Flash Fiction Forward and Sudden Fiction series. Fast Forward Press strives to deliver diverse anthologies of international flash fiction by established and emerging writers. The stories range from under 100 words to 1,000 words, each one a self-contained emotional experience. In THE MIX TAPE, the third in the series, masters of the genre--Linh Dinh and Barbara Henning--are mingle with talented newcomers--Bryan Jansing and Teresa Milbrodt. The resulting book has all the pleasures of listening to a good mix tape: flashes of poetry, deep solemn undercurrents, and the laughable and the ludicrous. THE MIX TAPE is pure musical pleasure without the tape-hiss.

What Are the Chances?

Author: Robert Scotelarro
Publisher: Press 53
ISBN: 9781950413263
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134

Book Description
Flash Fictions by Robert Scotelarro

My Very End of the Universe

Author: Tiff Holland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988764583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"A celebration and study of an increasingly popular genre: the novella-in-flash, a novella built of standalone flash stories."--Back cover.

Cooked Up

Author:
Publisher: New Internationalist
ISBN: 1780262159
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
Food can bring together families, communities, and cultures. It is the essence of life and yet our relationships with one another can be most fraught at the dinner table. This perpetually fascinating subject has inspired a unique collection of fiction—including flash fiction, essay, short stories, and even a "stoku" (amalgam of short story and haiku)—from a wonderfully diverse and international group of authors. The authors in the anthology include Elaine Chiew, Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni, Rachel J. Fenton, Diana Ferraro, Vanessa Gebbie, Pippa Goldschmidt, Sue Guiney, Patrick J. Holland, Roy Kesey, Charles Lambert, Krys Lee, Stefani Nellen, Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Ben Okri, Angie Pelekidis, Susannah Rickards, and Nikesh Shukla. Elaine Chiew is a London-based writer who has won several prizes for her short stories and flash fiction. She was included in One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories. Many of her stories revolve around food. Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author, poet, activist, and teacher of writing. She has been published in many magazines and her writing has been included in over fifty anthologies. Ben Okri has published eight novels, including The Famished Road and Starbook, as well as collections of poetry, short stories, and essays. He has won numerous international prizes. Pippa Goldschmidt writes long and short fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Her PhD in astronomy inspired her first novel The Falling Sky, about a female astronomer who discovers the Universe and loses her mind.

Nothing Is Ever One Thing

Author: Robert Scotellaro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781421836331
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
Nothing Is Ever One Thing is a Master Class in flash fiction. These elegant stories shine a slanted light on the high wire act of human existence with a unique blend of pathos and grit. Robert Scotellaro's microfictions are breathtaking little epiphanies. Robert Scotellaro has published widely in national and international books, journals and anthologies, including W.W. Norton's Flash Fiction International, NANO Fiction, Gargoyle, New Flash Fiction Review, Matter Press, and many others. Two of his stories were included in Best Small Fictions (2016 and 2017). He is the author of seven literary chapbooks, several books for children, and three full-length story collections: Measuring the Distance, What We Know So Far (winner of The 2015 Blue Light Book Award), and Bad Motel.

FLASHES of VICE:

Author: Vincent de Paul
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781490332505
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Flashes of Vice is an anthology of flash fiction by Vincent de Paul first published on ShortThrillers, the author's blog (http://shortthrillers.blogspot.com) up to thirty-three stories published within a duration of one year.Vincent de Paul is the author of the award winning First Words and Holy Emotions, all anthologies of poems published by Lulu and CreateSpace. The books are available online on all Amazon bookstores and Kindle.