Flash Fiction goes by many names: micro fiction, sudden fiction, short short stories, skinny stories (no fat allowed) and postcard fiction. I gather in China it translates to a palm-sized smoke because it should only last as long as a cigarette (thanks Wikipedia).
I recently came across the WikiHow entry on how to write a short story. The actual article contains good advice, but I arched an eyebrow when I read the introduction.
I’m delighted to be asked to be writer in residence during their annual writing competition. I am going to blog every month about the kind of things that emerging writers need to consider – how to find original ideas, how to craft a sentence or a line of poetry that sings on the page and…
This week it’s my great pleasure to welcome Tracy Fells to the Thursday Throng hot seat. Tracy was the winner of this years Hysteria 2013 writing competition with a story called Fibonacci’s Tree. She was also a runner up in last years Hysteria 2012 competition and has had success in several significant short story competitions…
Fibonacci’s Tree by Tracy Fells ‘Here I am!’ I jab a finger, one of the few that still works, at the notebook page. ‘Right at the bottom of the tree.’ Tanya is adding too much milk to my tea. She doesn’t think I’m looking when she shoves a custard cream into her mouth. It disappears…
Hysteria 2013 is upon us and we are busy sorting out the early entries so they can be read by our judges. We have five judges altogether and they have all been interviewed and you can read more about them below. The way judging works is that each story is sent out to every judge….
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Jayne Thickett – the winner of the Hysteria 2012 Short Story Competition. You can read her story, called “Banana Loaf: A Recipe for Solace” on the website. It will also be published in the Hysteria 2012 Anthology, due out in February, alongside nine other exceptional writers and ten fabulous…
This is the winning story in the first Hysteria writing competition, Hysteria 2012. It is written by Jayne Thickett and you can find out more about her in the interview.
