Sudden Prose: Prose Poetry and Short-Short Stories

Writers striving to publish their flash fictions may find this article useful: "10 Amateur Mistakes to Avoid When Submitting Flash Fic...

Today my flash fiction, "The Find," appears at Ink, Sweat & Tears . I expect other poets will identify with the general situa...

Zebulon Huset at The Review Review has published a wonderfully comprehensive list of flash fiction outlets here. Take a look!

Andrew Winch, senior editor for Splickety Publishing Group, gives useful tips or secrets, as he calls them, here on The Review Review .

The Carousel ‘That is not her child,’ my mother says and nods towards a woman walking up the beach holding a young girl’s hand.  I ...

The 2013-14 Sudden Prose module has had its first publication success! Congratulations go to Collette Lord, whose short-short story from th...

After the Natatorium The first time they saw the natatorium they changed into their bathing costumes, pulled their rubber caps over ...

Oblong Magazine 's third issue is out, and I'm delighted to have a story, "Insurance," therein. A mere £3 will also bring...

The Irish Literary Review is seeking flash fiction submissions of 300 to 1000 words. You can learn more here.

Deep South , a new online journal from the University of New Zealand at Otago, seeks submissions of creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry an...

On Friday, 19 April, the people behind National Flash Fiction Day run FlashFlood, where flash fictions are posted online regularly througho...

The organization Chalk the Sun is holding a 200-word flash fiction competition, on the theme of discovery, in conjunction with the Wandswor...

To celebrate its hundredth issue, New Welsh Review is holding a microfiction competition for stories of maximum 100 words (including the w...

New Nei ghbours   Three men moved into the flat on the other side of the landing. They seemed a friendly bunch and would always...

"Like Owls" Someone died. That was the whisper down the line. The line, that stretched, that snaked, that woun...

"A Loyal Friend" Most people considered Jacobsen a loyal friend and so they invested everything, every cent they had. When J...

"Five Hundred Pound" by Tony Williams My growing up began in a pedalo at Carsington Water, when Granddad said ...

A new article on flash fiction and brevity , written by Robert McCrum, appears in today's Guardian .

In my taster lecture last week for students taking the first-year creative writing core module, I talked about what makes a piece of writin...

"Anya's Complaint" Anya’s beauty was in her hair. She had it tied it up most of the time, sitting in The Plum Pie...