Writing Outside the Box

This week's reading is a flash fiction by Jose Louis Lucero from the literary magazine Mistake House. If you missed it, you can find it...

This week's short story is a piece by Erika Murdey. If you missed it, you can find it here: http://www.literaryjuice.com/pbj-sandwich-eri...

This week's reading is a short story by Amanda Ajamfar. It was published on the Paper Darts website - this is a great resource for...

Similarly to flash fiction, there is no exact definition of a short story. Short stories tend to be a few pages which can generally be...

This week we'll be discussing the short story. Short stories are longer than flash fictions: they have a more developed plot, but can...

This week we're looking at a great example of a flash fiction by Emily Devane. If you missed it, you can find it here:...

A flash fiction is a very short story, usually only consisting of a few hundred words, although there is no real boundary. If you are...

This month, our focus is going to be types of story. We'll start by looking at flash fiction - don't forget to read this week's story...

This week we are looking at characterisation. This means how to create believable characters, how much you should know about your...

In my last post I talked about using sentence starters as prompts. The good news is they are something I continue to find useful in my...