Grant Faulkner will be at Beaverdale Books in Des Moines on Jan. 23 to promote “something out there in the distance,” a novel ...

Don't tell John Dufresne you don't have time to read. In fact, don't tell him you don't have time to write. Instead, spend a little time with his new book, Flash! Writing the Very Short Story. You'll ...

Fresno — There are no wasted words in the fictions of Venita Blackburn. Her stories are quick as lightning; her sentences, entire lifetimes flashing by. A clause might pierce a character’s frailties, ...

What steps do you take to figure out how the human brain processes memory? You hold a fiction writing contest, record people's brains while listening to the winners, and crunch your data, of course.

This year’s Flash Fiction Writing Contest, as part of Daniel Boone’s Regional Library’s One Read Program, asked participants to write a climate fiction story in 250 words or less inspired by author ...

Haruki Murakami’s Lonely Men Jess Zimmerman | The New Republic “It’s only when surrounded by light surrealism that the characteristic Murakami detachment can achieve its ambition. When his writing is ...

For this year’s Flash Fiction Writing Contest as part of the Daniel Boone Regional Library’s One Read program, participants were asked to write a tale inspired by the naming conventions in M.O.

The second annual Youth Flash Fiction Writing Contest challenges preschool and school-age children to write a story and submit it for a chance to win prizes. Winners ...