Wednesday, January 26, 2011

RECOMMENDED FLASH FICTION COLLECTIONS - ANTHOLOGIES

More info from the three-day online Flash Fiction - Winter Solstice Project (which took place in December-- see my previos blog). Here are a few of the anthologies and collections recommended in the flash fiction info grab session.

YOU HAVE TIME FOR THIS:
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SHORT-SHORT STORIES
Mark Budman & Tom Hazuka, eds.
Portland, OR: Ooligan Press, 2007

MR. AGREEABLE
By Kirk Nessett
DuBois, PA: Mammoth Books, 2009

PP/FF: AN ANTHOLOGY
Editor: Peter Connors
Buffalo, New York:Starcherone Books, 2006.

SUDDEN STORIES:
THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF MINISCULE FICTION
Editor: Dinty K. Moore
Du Bois, PA, Mammoth Press, 2003

SUM: FORTY TALES FROM THE AFTERLIVES
by David Eagleman
New York: Vintage Books: A Division ofRandom House, Inc., 2010

THE STORIES OF RAYMOND CARVER;
A CRITICAL STUDY
by Kirk Nesset
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1995.

More grabbed info in my next blog post.

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Sunday, January 02, 2011

FLASH FICTION - WINTER SOLSTICE PROJECT

I'm pleased to report that the above event (Dec. 20 to Dec. 22) was a success. Many signed up for the three-day info grab and we shared so much good information on flash fiction. We'll be doing this again next year. (So watch for sign up info later in the year.)

In addition to all sorts of info about flash fiction we also posted some of our favorite online stories. Here are just a few mentioned:

Lydia Davis's "Odd Behavior"
http://www.conjunctions.com/archives/c24-ld.htm

C. R. Park's "I Can't Talk About Butter Because Margarine Is All I Know" http://www.smokelong.com/flash/1041.asp

Bruce Holland Rogers's "Little Brother"
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2000/20001030/little_brother.shtml

Zach Brockhouse's "Roosts"
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/14/131314768/three-minute-fiction-the-winner-is

Octavio Paz's "The Blue Bouquet" at:http://lisabloomfield.net/occ/193/weekly_html/bluebouquet.pdf

Sherrie Flick's "Silver Spur Cafe"
http://www.smokelong.com/flash/4001.asp

I'll post more favorite online stories next time I blog.

For some of the favorite markets posted see my Flash Fiction Flash Newsletter (January 2011 issue) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashFictionFlash (coming out today).

We also posted several collection/ anthology reviews and I'll post some info on those later on, too. The event was a bonanza of information so check back again for more "grabbings" from the three days we spent on flash fiction.

Happy and productive 2011 to all!

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