Monthly Archives: February 2012

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by Estrella Azul

News Flash – Vol.3 #39

February 28, 2012 in Community News, News Flash by Estrella Azul

Kevin J. Mackey’s short story, “A Song of Aine”, was published at Short-Story.me! last Friday.

One of Dan Powell’s short stories has been selected for inclusion in Best British Short Stories 2012 from Salt Publishing, due out in April.

Luke Wortley has posted his piece entitled “Hero’s Haven”, which was published in 366 Days of Flash: Leap Year Edition from Pill Hill Press, in which there is a story of 500 words or less for every day of the Leap Year. Luke’s appears on September 15.

Alex J. Cavanaugh’s second book, “CassaFire”, is now officially available for purchase. For more info, to check out all the latest news and the related blog tour, visit Alex’s blog.

Congratulations to all!

~ Estrella Azul

 

Keep the good news coming! You can send in your news items concerning the Friday Flash community to Estrella at estrella.azul@fridayflash.org or by contacting her on Facebook or Twitter. Or feel free to share your news by posting on the#fridayflash Facebook Group Page.

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by Tim VanSant

The #FridayFlash Report – Vol 3 Number 39

February 25, 2012 in FridayFlash Report by Tim VanSant

We had 58 stories in the Collector this week with 5 Debuts. Please welcome Evangeline Warren, Natalie Wood, Austin Malone, Steve Lakey, and Paul Weimer to the community. The stories this week fall under 11 different genres; the most common this week are Slice of Life, Horror, and Humor. What a wonderfully diverse community we have!

We tried a little upgrade to the Collector this week. FFDO members who are logged in can have their Name and Twitter ID automatically entered into the form. The next phase in improving the Collector is to read the RSS feed from your website and pull the Title and Address of your most recent post (on the assumption that that will be your #FridayFlash). It should work for most of you most of the time, but while we debug the script we’ll be displaying the information above the form rather than entering it into the form. Ultimately, members should find most of the form filled in automatically each week and need only specify the genre and whether they have a narrated or serial piece. Read this page to make sure your profile information is formatted correctly to take advantage of the upgrade. Of course, membership on this site is never required to participate in our weekly #FridayFlash, but we hope you’ll consider joining. And if you’re already a member, we hope you’ll find the upgraded Collector a nice little benefit.

As always, if your story is not in the listing below please go to the Collector and add the details. It will be in next week’s listing. ~Tim Read the rest of this entry →

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by Estrella Azul

News Flash – Vol.3 #38

February 21, 2012 in Community News, News Flash by Estrella Azul

John Xero, Angel Zapata and Peter Newman have  a story in an anthology from new publisher Cruentus Libri. 100 Horrors is an anthology of 100 stories of 100 words from 100 authors.

Tony Noland has his Valentine’s Day story, “Straight and True, My Arrow, Fly”, up over at Escape Into Life. Also, over at Write Anything, he talks about his novel WIP, “Goodbye Grammarian”. Specifically addressing the question, “It’s been more than a year, so where the hell is the damned book?”. The post is titled, Hello Grammarian. Go read it. And if you want to read even more, check out Tony’s #fridayflash featured over at Amwriting.org, “Cheap Chocolate, All You Can Eat”.

Linda Simoni-Wastila has a steamy little poem, “Lotus”, included in the River Poets Journal’s new anthology of poems and stories, The Hopeless Romantic. She also has a non-fiction piece, her studied opinion, in the New York Times Room for debate.

PJ Kaiser was over at Amwriting.org talking about Metro Fiction and the reading practices of mothers, Introduction: Metro Fiction – A Reading Nook for Moms.

Helen Howell has been interviewed over at Inspirations Forum.

Congratulations to all!

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Tim VanSant informs us members to read Updating your member profile for some information about enhancements to the Collector and other news.

~ Estrella Azul

 

Keep the good news coming! You can send in your news items concerning the Friday Flash community to Estrella at estrella.azul@fridayflash.org or by contacting her on Facebook or Twitter. Or feel free to share your news by posting on the#fridayflash Facebook Group Page.


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by Tim VanSant

The #FridayFlash Report – Vol 3 Number 38

February 18, 2012 in FridayFlash Report by Tim VanSant

We had 51 stories in the Collector this week with 3 Debuts. Please welcome Rosalind Smith-Nazilli, Sue Harding, and Marianne Su to the community. The stories this week fall under 12 different genres; the most common this week are Horror, Humor, and Slice of Life. What a wonderfully diverse community we have!

We are working behind the scenes to make the FFDO site bigger, better, and easier to use. Details will be announced RSN.

As always, if your story is not in the listing below please go to the Collector and add the details. It will be in next week’s listing. ~Tim Read the rest of this entry →

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by Estrella Azul

News Flash – Vol.3 #37

February 14, 2012 in Community News, News Flash by Estrella Azul

Over at Write Anything, Tony Noland discusses the mistake he made in choosing the title of my flash fiction anthology, “Blood Picnic and other stories“. Why is “Blood Picnic” a bad title? Click on over to the post and find out: A Bloody Bad Title.

Laurita Miller’s story, “Lines”, is up at Lily Childs’ Feardom. Go on over to a read it, and check out the first stories in the February Femmes Fatales showcase.

Dan Powell’s story, “The Man Who Lived Like A Tree”, is the first fiction publication of 2012 over at Referential.

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Laura Eno has been interviewed over at Chilli Tween Reads. Go leave her some love.

Congrats to all!

~ Estrella Azul

 

Keep the good news coming! You can send in your news items concerning the Friday Flash community to Estrella at estrella.azul@fridayflash.org or by contacting her on Facebook or Twitter. Or feel free to share your news by posting on the#fridayflash Facebook Group Page.

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by Tim VanSant

The #FridayFlash Report – Vol 3 Number 37

February 11, 2012 in FridayFlash Report by Tim VanSant

We had 51 stories in the Collector this week with 4 Debuts. Please welcome Alexandra Malmberg, Dan Waters, Paris Franz, and Enrique Garcia to the community. With the new options on the Collector we have 9 stories marked as being part of a series and 2 that have audio narration. The stories this week fall under 14 different genres including one each in Action, Cross Genre, Romance, Suspense, and Thriller. What a wonderfully diverse community we have!

Do you know a quick way to tell what genres are hot each week? I make that Wordle graphic at the beginning of the Report based on the stories in the Collector each week. Each genre is weighted based on how many times it was selected and those appear larger in the resulting image. So a glance at this week’s Wordle tells us that most of the stories are Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Slice of Life. Did you know you can make your own Wordle images for free at http://www.wordle.net/?

As always, if your story is not in the listing below please go to the Collector and add the details. It will be in next week’s listing. ~Tim Read the rest of this entry →

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by Estrella Azul

News Flash – Vol.3 #36

February 7, 2012 in Community News, News Flash by Estrella Azul

Linda Simoni-Wastila has last week’s #fridayflash, “The Accidental Arsonist“, featured at A Baker’s Dozen, a new literary magazine with an eclectic aesthetic. She seems to have been busy, as she also has a poem, “Greetings From Motel 6″, in 2013 Poet’s Market.

Dan Powell’s short story, “Soiled”, is featured in Issue 4 of Friction, Newcastle University’s online journal for creative writing, theory and practice, which is now available for your reading pleasure.

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Laurita Miller’s blog, “Calling Shotgun”, has taken third place in the Ninjamatics 2011 Canadian Weblog Awards. Go over and congratulate her as she proudly displays her bronze medal for the Best Weblog About Writing & Literature | Écriture et Littérature.

Congratulations to all!

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If you are looking for the opportunity to contribute support to one of the finest writing communities by writing an article each month, which will be featured right here on the FFDO home page? And as a bonus get a little (international) name recognition for yourself? This is your chance! For all the details, make sure you read Editor E. D. Johnson’s post about The FFDO A-Team.

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This month, because I (Estrella Azul) really dislike the commercialism oriented-ness of February, I would like to adopt a Love Letter Bundle.  That means I’m turning to you with the question: Would you like to brighten someone’s day with something as simple as words on paper? Please drop by and read the detailed blog post about this, over at my blog. And also, please share! Thank you in advance!

~ Estrella Azul

 

Keep the good news coming! You can send in your news items concerning the Friday Flash community to Estrella at estrella.azul@fridayflash.org or by contacting her on Facebook or Twitter. Or feel free to share your news by posting on the#fridayflash Facebook Group Page.

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by Tim VanSant

The #FridayFlash Report – Vol 3 Number 36

February 4, 2012 in Community News, FridayFlash Report by Tim VanSant

We had 47 stories in the Collector this week with 1 Debut and 8 serials. Please welcome Amy Lee Burgess to the community. The stories this week fall under 12 different genres; the most common this week are Horror and Slice of Life, with several Fantasy and Paranormal too. What a wonderfully diverse community we have! We will probably never be able to list every possible genre, but do you think there are any important ones we are missing? Do you ever choose Unspecified because the genre you really want isn’t one of our choices? Let me know in the comments or use one of the contact methods in my profile.

Make sure you read Editor E. D. Johnson’s post about The FFDO A-Team. This is your opportunity to write an article each month to be featured right here on the FFDO home page. You can get a little (international) name recognition for yourself, but more importantly you’ll be contributing support to one of the finest writing communities anywhere. Email E. D. at the address in his post. (We don’t want any sad pandas.)

There has been lots of terrific news in our weekly News Flash reports compiled by Estrella Azul. Keep sharing all the great links to publications, book launches, contests, markets for flash fiction, new gigs, etc. with your community. Estrella has contact info at the bottom of each News Flash.

As always, if your story is not in the listing below please go to the Collector and add the details. It will be in next week’s listing. ~Tim Read the rest of this entry →

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by E. D. Johnson

The FFDO A-Team

February 2, 2012 in Friday Flash by E. D. Johnson

As Editor, I am supposed to make this site (specifically the front page) fun, fresh, and exciting. Sadly, I cannot always deliver great content on a weekly basis. My own blog has not had a post since May of last year. That may change in the future, but FFDO need not suffer for my lack of inspiration. Not once I finish forming the FFDO A-Team at least.

What is the FFDO A-Team? That is the team of volunteer writers that will work under my supervision providing the whole #FridayFlash community with interesting articles, interviews, and information once a month. Each of these writers will get a chance to address everyone here on FFDO about events and findings from around the world. These topics could be almost anything, as long as it relates to writing, flash fiction, publishing, or tools that may be helpful to writers in general.

Does this sound like something you would be interested in doing? Do you want a chance to share your interesting finds? Can you commit to one 250-1000 word article per month? Do you have a passion for informing your fellow writers? Have you participated in #FridayFlash? Then you may be just what I am looking for on my team.

Now, there could be a flood of people that want to do this, and I would be very happy if that were the case. Based on the number of people that are interested, I may offer a contest (potentially the biggest in FFDO history) to narrow the field. For now, that remains to be seen. Remember, this is a monthly commitment, but I am pretty flexible about when articles can go up and what not.

If interested, send me a message (edjohnson/fridayflash/org) with the subject line of “FFDO A-Team.” In the body, tell me what kind of articles you would be most interested in writing and why. That is all there is to it. If a whole bunch of people are interested (and I welcome this), I will hand pick sixteen for a contest. Any less than that, and I will have to save the contest idea for another time. And that would make me a sad panda, so everyone should try to join the FFDO A-Team.

~ E. D. Johnson

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