
Editor’s Writing Prompts 5
1. Take the first line of your Facebook news feed as the first line of your story. 2. Take a…
1. Take the first line of your Facebook news feed as the first line of your story. 2. Take a…
Janet Hamill – Synesthesia Surrealist poet and fiction writer Janet Hamill has adapted her poetry prompt for us. SYNAESTHESIA:…
Cynthia Kraman Cynthia Kraman, author of The Touch, Club 82 and others, suggested we try an “Exquisite Corpse,” or group…
1. Since February is the month for love, write a story about a crush, requited or un-. Title your story…
Jean Hanff Korelitz If you spend years writing a novel and every publisher in the world rejects…
Rusty Barnes – Writing Prompt The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction Edited by Tara L. Masih…
I teach a course in Flash Fiction, and have come to appreciate the kind of skill required for brevity of…
Matthew Sharpe I recently spent about two years writing a lot of very short stories. I started by…
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” This sentence, often attributed to Ernest Hemingway (although the link to him is said…
Freeing your Strangers We have trapped strangers in the backgrounds of our photographs. Perhaps we are the elderly couple taking…