Category: Flash Fiction
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CRAFT ESSAY BY MANDIRA PATTNAIK Earlier this week, I was looking at the themes that literary magazines are currently open for. Some of them are “Science” (inScribe), “Memories in Shape” (The Literary Times), “Fairytale, Myths, Legends” (Livina Press), “Letter to the Editor” (The New York Times Magazine) and “I Wish I’d Said That” (THEMA). One…
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June 01, 2025 Hey friends! Welcome back! First up. Mysterious are the ways of the heart. My heart is full as both Glass/Fire and Where We Set Our Easel turned-in anniversaries–six months/4.25 Goodreads rating and two years/4.9 Goodreads rating respectively, but my collection of short stories is still looking for a publisher, even as the…
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May 06, 2025 Hey friends! Welcome back! Starting this month, this blog is set to become more regular and you’ll receive a monthly newsletter on the first week that is truly a newsletter–meaning it’ll have updates from the literary world we all ‘submit’ to (pardon the double meaning–we’re quite literally here!), news of open windows…
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Special Blogpost for National Poetry Month As you may remember, for my last blogpost I had shared my special Poetry Month trampset column What Do Fiction Writers Do All through Poetry Month? I hope you enjoyed the list, and especially, if you are a fiction writer, I hope you’ve been inspired by item #10 Check…
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Happy Valentine’s Day, friends. On a Valentine’s Day like this years ago, I shared a bunch of flash/fiction that pierces the heart in the manner in which they explore themes of love. Back in Feb 2022 I posted “7 LOVE STORIES to read on Valentine’s Day” including stories from Murakami, Cath Barton, Veronica Montes, and…
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Part-I Glass/Fire, my latest book, will be out on November 22, 2024. It is a small book with a small press seeking a small readership. But, and I say this with emphasis, it has a big ambition; meaning, it tries many things — among them are innovative story structures, offbeat and sensitive themes, woman-centric approach, and the way it…
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Fragmentation in structure, in narrative, and in character-building can be divided into three parts: 1) Fragmentation in structure: Meaning a narrative text is subtly nudging you to pay attention through the way it is told. We’re not taking of hybrids, experimental or hermit-crab forms here, but traditional forms, and yet, by moving around the pieces,…
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Subscribe for monthly craft essays Let me begin this month’s blogpost with a poem. I suppose I am still recovering from Poetry Month’s poet interviews. In case you missed April’s highly inspirational blogpost with interesting anecdotes, useful advice and more, find it here. FORK / Charles Simic (b. 1938)This strange thing must have creptRight out…
