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Steve and I spent a long weekend in San Diego (and Temecula, for a family party) and I took a last look at my laptop before we checked out of the hotel this morning and discovered that the WIGLEAF TOP 50 (VERY) SHORT FICTIONS shortlist and longlist were out. And that my micro "We Could Have" in FLASH BOULEVARD made the longlist! The micro is part of a CNF sequence ("I Dream You are Alive"). I've been longlisted with CNF before (though the list is supposed to be fiction). A completely unexpected honor.   I'm so excited to be in a W.W. Norton textbook on hybrid writing. I don't have my hands on a copy of THE LAB yet! There were articles and interviews POETS AND WRITERS and THE WRITERS CHRONICLE about the book. Matthew Davison and his cowriter Alice LaPlante taught a workshop in Mallorca using the book, and I'm thrilled to hear this from him: "We have [an article] coming up in LitHub that talks about your contribution. We also did a session at The Lab Mallorca where we read The Lunatics Ball, your notes on why hybrid works, and did the series of experiments based on both. It may have been the students' favorite of my lessons."  There's a launch event at The Booksmith in San Francisco on July 22. FlashFlood Journal celebrates National Flash Fiction Day in the UK by publishing new flash every five to ten minutes for twenty-four hours. My microfiction “Leftovers” is part of the deluge. It’s still early, but I already see lots of flash by friends and there are many more to come. Great to see newcomers too (including Shara Kronmal, my associate editor at CRAFT). “Leftovers” was originally published in ATTICUS REVIEW and I was particularly excited to get that acceptance because Michelle Ross was their editor at the time and I’m a diehard fan of her fiction. photo credit: Chris Gallagher at Unsplash  |
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