This year, along with Richard Holt, I'll be judging the joanne burns award for microfiction and prose poems, tied in with the Flashing the Square project during Melbourne Writers' Festival in August. First prize for a microfiction or prose poem is $300. The winning and shortlisted entries will be published in the Spineless Wonders annual … Continue reading Enter the joanne burns award: Flashing the Square
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Flash fiction published in Tincture!
I've recently had two flash pieces published in new e-journal Tincture, titled 'Apocalypse', and 'Glitch', both stories in the absurd vein, set in offices. You can buy it here for $8, in many different formats (DRM-free). All proceeds go to paying the writers. See the full list of contributors here. I'm pretty excited to be published … Continue reading Flash fiction published in Tincture!
New flash fiction
Greetings from post-blizzard New York City! I've really been getting into writing flash fiction, or micro-fiction, lately. It's fun to try to give a strong impression of a scene, a story, in few words. And other people seem to like my super short pieces too. Seizure has just launched a flash fiction section of its website, Flashers, … Continue reading New flash fiction
Flash fiction piece ‘Trash’ up at Capsule
There's a tiny little piece by me up at Capsule today - an online journal for bite-sized lit. It was inspired by a doco I saw on the early career of filmmaker John Waters. It begins: 'In a cold Baltimore church basement, a vile film flickered over faces. Is it a she? they wondered at … Continue reading Flash fiction piece ‘Trash’ up at Capsule
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