On the difficulty of writing about sex: “Faint equivalents can sometimes be found. . . . Or it can be rendered obliquely—an adolescent’s mental image of his or her parents making love, which must be…

Please note: Pre-orders of Salt City Runaway by Gillian O'Shaughnessy will ship in early May. Helen Garner moves into a letterbox. Dead bats rain from the sky. A woman offers Lou Reed her last ciga...

“One of the things [fiction] does is lead you to recognize what you did not know before.”

On female friendships: “Hating, fighting one another, and joining men in their condemnation of ourselves [is] a typical example of what dominated people do.”

“People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.”

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We had over eighty entries since July when the ninth yearly novella in flash award opened. Thank you to everyone who trusted their work to the competition. Many congratulations to the three winners…

We haven’t seen another soul for weeks. We’re down to two dented, label-less cans. Chickpeas? Pumpkin? I watch Father’s footprints disappear beneath the silent snow. On the wall, a finger of frost poi...

Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: In "Heart," David James Poissant shows how information can be revealed slowly and deliberately in a piece of flash fiction.

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After the death of her husband, Betty drives south from Ohio to the Arizona desert.

Image designed by Freepik Do you know about your writing muscle? The more you write, the warmer it gets, and that means it ca...

If grand romantic gestures were my measure of true love, I never would’ve married my husband. He is nothing if not practical. He bought me a basic calculator our first Christmas together so I wouldn’t...

Image designed by Freepik Do you know about your writing muscle? The more you write, the warmer it gets, and that means it can...

On female friendships: “Hating, fighting one another, and joining men in their condemnation of ourselves [is] a typical example of what dominated people do.”