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Flash Fiction: Alive in the Flicker
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FLASH FICTION: Alive in the Flicker
A Portable Workshop
PAMELYN CASTO
“Pamelyn Casto’s Flash Fiction: Alive in the Flicker is insightful, comprehensive, and brimming with inventive prompts and exercises to make your flash truly leap off the page.”
~ Dinty W. Moore
co-editor of the Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
“Pamelyn Casto has been the most useful person in flash for years. This “portable workshop” proves it. Flash Fiction: Alive in the Flicker is an amazing flash compendium of everything for anyone who is interested the form. It’s also a writers’ workshop from prompts to where to send flashes. What’s not to like?”
~ Robert Shapard
co-editor of many Flash and Sudden Fiction anthologies, the latest are Sudden Fiction Latina: Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) and Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories from Around the World (2015)
“Pamelyn Casto’s valuable book Flash Fiction: Alive in the Flicker is an astonishing illumination—a total history of the form with essays, strategies and exercises; lessons, examples, how-to’s, markets, marketing, contests, anthologies, prompts, advice from pros, new directions (flash film!), reader psychology even—it is all here, with hundreds of internet links. There will never be a fuller single resource, with a good teacher’s encouraging tone about it, to boot. You can say flash fiction begins with Aesop; with Casto you can begin anew.
~Kent H. Dixon
translator of The Epic of Gilgamesh (2018) and co-editor of Stone Wall Book of Short Fictions (1976)
“Pamelyn Casto is a deep font of flash knowledge, and this portable workshop is a thorough, indispensable resource for writers and instructors who want to know more about what this thing called “flash” is, how to write it, and more important, how to read and understand it.”
~ Tara Lynn Masih
editor of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction (2009) and founder of The Best Small Fictions (founded 2015)
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Daniel J. Nicholas
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2024
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If I were to teach a class, this book would be required reading or a course outline for discussion. Bravo, Pamelyn! In addition, I look forward to your monthly blog to start up again.
David Lignell
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2022
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Pamela Casto’s new text, Flash Fiction: Alive in the Flicker, is a must have “portable workshop” workbook for anyone who desires to learn and practice the many forms of flash fiction.
W.R. Rodriguez
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2022
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An authoritative overview of the genre, combined with practical advice on the writing process and an abundance of writing prompts.
Norman Jensen
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024
Reading is great but hands-on prompts are even better.
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O:JA&L’S BUTTONHOOK PRESS MASTERS SERIES
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The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Brian Clements on Prose Poetry
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Mark Budman on Flash Discourse
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Ray Gonzalez on Prose Poetry
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Master Series: Michael Martone on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Master Series: Roberta Allen on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Master Series: Peter Conners on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Maxine Chernoff on Prose Poetry
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Pedro Ponce on Flash Fiction
With an Interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Tom Hazuka on Flash Fiction
With an interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
The Buttonhook Press Masters Series: Kent Dixon on Flash Fiction & Nonfiction
With an interview by Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto
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