Buttonhook Press
The O:JA&L Masters Series

Conceived, edited, and compiled
by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto

Prominent Writers on Craft and Practice

Click on the titles to explore or download the free PDF chapbooks.

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Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Poetry: All forms & styles|Prose Poetry||Brian Clements|”Seductive and Subversive Prose Poetry”

Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Mark Budman|”Flash Fiction: Read Deeper. Have More Fun.”

Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Poetry: All forms & Styles|Prose Poetry||Ray Gonzalez|”The Book of Whispers”

Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Michael Martone|”The Tiny Book of Forts”

Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Roberta Allen|”FIRST IT HAPPENS, THEN I MAKE IT UP”

Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction||Featured Writer: Peter Conners|”PLENTY: How to Write Very Short Fiction”

Buttonhook Press|The O:JA&L Masters Series|Poetry: All forms & Styles|Prose Poetry||Maxine Chernoff|”DIARY”

Buttonhook Press|The 2025 O:JA&L Masters Series|Flash Fiction: A Writer’s Portfolio||Featured Writer: Pedro Ponce|”A Map of the Underground”

About the editor/compiler:
PAMELYN CASTO, twice a Pushcart Prize nominee, has published feature-length articles on flash fiction in Writer’s Digest (and in their other publications), Fiction Southeast, and Writing World (and elsewhere). Her essay on flash fiction and myth appears in Rose Metal Press’s Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field and her 8,000-word essay on flash fiction is included in Books and Beyond: The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of New American Reading (4 volumes). She also has a 5,000-word article on flash fiction as the lead article in the new book Critical Insights: Flash Fiction. Subscribe to her free online monthly flashfictionflash newsletter (first issue published in 2001) for markets, contests, and publishing news for flash literature writers. Casto is an Associate Editor at O:JA&L. Pamelyn Casto’s new book Flash Fiction: Alive in The Flicker (A Portable Workshop), a new release from O:JA&L’s Buttonhook Press, is available now on Amazon. 

 

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