Short Story
5 Tips for Crafting the Perfect Short Story
Award-winning author Louise Marburg shares five tips for crafting the perfect short story that will help you understand how writing short stories is not necessarily the same thing as writing a novel.
7 Tips for Starting To Write a Short Story
Award-winning author May-lee Chai shares tips on how to begin writing short stories through personal experiences and writing prompts.
5 Ways To Use Short Stories To Grow as a Writer
Short story writing can be a gateway to writing your novel—but they’re also fun and worthy stories in their own right. Here, author Dallas Woodburn shares 5 ways to use short stories to grow as a writer.
5 Tips for Crafting a Novel-in-Stories
Bringing together smaller pieces of a larger whole can make for a compelling reading experience. Here, author Scott Russell Sanders shares 5 tips for crafting a novel-in-stories.
Ladee Hubbard: On Interconnecting Individual Stories
Award-winning author Ladee Hubbard discusses how each story stands alone and is also part of a whole in her new short story collection, The Last Suspicious Holdout.
28 Writing Prompts for the 2022 Flash Fiction Challenge
Find all 28 flash fiction writing prompts for the 2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge Challenge in this post.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 28
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write about an ending that doesn't end.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 27
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to give physical form to an idea.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 26
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to structure your story as a list.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 25
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write a story that ends with a promise.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 24
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write the shortest story you can.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 23
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write a story that takes place in less than 10 minutes.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 22
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write something featuring the phrase "the door is open."
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 21
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt has your character facing their fears.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 20
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write about something (or someone) that's lost.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 19
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to play with a horror trope.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 18
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write about time.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 17
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to pick an object from this list and run with it.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 16
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write about a hoarder.
Writer's Digest Presents: Flash Writing (Podcast, Episode 2)
In the second episode of the Writer's Digest Presents podcast, we talk about flash fiction and short stories, including interviews with Gina Barreca about flash nonfiction, Ran Walker about flash fiction (especially dribbles and drabbles), and the workshop experience at MFAs.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 15
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write about a hobby.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 14
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to include an animal character.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 13
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write about something being possessed by something...unnatural.
2022 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 12
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today's prompt is to write about magic.