Grant Faulkner will be at Beaverdale Books in Des Moines on Jan. 23 to promote “something out there in the distance,” a novel written in the flash fiction style. For many people, getting started is ...

What steps do you take to figure out how the human brain processes memory? You hold a fiction writing contest, record people's brains while listening to the winners, and crunch your data, of course.

For this year’s Flash Fiction Writing Contest as part of the Daniel Boone Regional Library’s One Read program, participants were asked to write a tale inspired by the naming conventions in M.O.

This year’s Flash Fiction Writing Contest, as part of Daniel Boone’s Regional Library’s One Read Program, asked participants to write a climate fiction story in 250 words or less inspired by author ...

LENOX — Have you written flash fiction? Or wanted to? Whether you're new to or experienced in this micro form of storytelling (stories are only two to four pages long), Ventfort Hall Mansion and ...

Fresno — There are no wasted words in the fictions of Venita Blackburn. Her stories are quick as lightning; her sentences, entire lifetimes flashing by. A clause might pierce a character’s frailties, ...

Giving Timothy Gager a word limit isn’t a challenge, it’s how he spends each day at the keyboard. The Dedham native has recently published his 14th book, "Every Day There is Something about Elephants, ...