Elise VanCise shared the news on her blog about the Marketing for Romance Writers free online “Taste of Summer Camp”. The three-day conference will take place July 12th thru 14th.

Laura Eno was interviewed about her contribution to the “Allegories of the Tarot” anthology.

Magaly Guerrero will be giving away prizes as the finale to her May Monster Madness posts. Stop by her blog for full details on how to enter.

SAM from the My Write Side blog has a story featured on Studio 30+  “If it smells like a hare…”

Aimee Pavy had an article featured in the SilentFilm.org’s Winter 2013 issue: “Marguerite Clark: The Biggest Little Lady in the Movies.”

- Angie C.

Keep the good news coming! You can send in your news items concerning the Friday Flash community through the News Hound form or by contacting me on Facebook, Google Plus or Twitter. Or feel free to share your news by posting on the #fridayflash Facebook Group Page.

Adam Byatt has collected his 28 days of Post-it Note Poetry, along with a few bonus pieces into an ebook.

Emma Newman has launched a new podcast on GeekpPlanet titled “Tea and Jeopardy“. Topics include writing, geekery and mild peril. Listen to the first episode, featuring Chuck Wendig, here. Also, John Wiswell has interviewed Emma on his blog last week. Read the interview, here.

Linda Simoni-Wastila’s story “After the Tsunami”  was featured at Every Day Fiction. Linda is also pleased to have “Row House“, a story of creation out of detritus, featured as a broadside at Blue Fifth Review.

Kevlin Henney has been busy, with five flash fiction stories published, a story longlisted for the Fish Flash Fiction Prize and another picked as a runner-up in the Salt Flash Fiction Prize. His entry, “A Higher Calling“, will be included in The Salt Anthology of New Writing 2013 due out in a few months.

Larry Kollar announced the release of his new ebook, “Pickups and Pestilence,“  and will be giving away prizes on his blog to celebrate. Do drop by!

- Angie C.

Keep the good news coming! You can send in your news items concerning the Friday Flash community through the News Hound form or by contacting me on Facebook, Google Plus or Twitter. Or feel free to share your news by posting on the #fridayflash Facebook Group Page.

Marc Nash’s story, “The Last Poet” has been selected for performance at JukeBox Story at the Poetry Café this Friday, May 10th.  He also has an hour long video talking about flash fiction and reading 11 of his stories on YouTube.

L.G. Keltner is hosting the Towel Day Blogfest in honor of Douglas Adams. Given that Towel Day (May 25th) falls on a Saturday this year, the blogfest will run from Friday, May 24th through Monday, May 27th, to give people the freedom to post on the day that works best for them.

Laura Besley shared a call for submissions to the Writers Abroad Far Flung and Foreign – Anthology 2013. The anthology is open to all expat and former-expat writers  – flash fiction welcome.

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Call for Submissions!  If you are a current or former member of the Friday Flash community, and you would like to help contribute to the cause, please consider contributing an article or two for our Thursday feature post. We will consider any nonfiction writing related piece that is original, thoughtful, and well written.

If you are interested in contributing to Friday Flash Dot Org with an article on writing related topics please contact Estrella or me via email or a Twitter DM and we will give it every consideration as a potential article in one of the upcoming Thursday slots.

- Angie C.

Keep the good news coming! You can send in your news items concerning the Friday Flash community through the News Hound form or by contacting me on Facebook, Google Plus or Twitter. Or feel free to share your news by posting on the #fridayflash Facebook Group Page.

The fourth book in Susan Helene Gottfried’s Shapeshifter series, “The Demo Tapes (Year 4)” is now available on Smashwords and Kindle, with print editions coming soon. It features several stories originally posted as part of #fridayflash.

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Congratulations to everyone!

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Call for Submissions!  If you are a current or former member of the Friday Flash community, and you would like to help contribute to the cause, please consider contributing an article or two for our Thursday feature post. We will consider any nonfiction writing related piece that is original, thoughtful, and well written.

If you are interested in contributing to Friday Flash Dot Org with an article on writing related topics please contact Estrella or me via email or a Twitter DM and we will give it every consideration as a potential article in one of the upcoming Thursday slots.

- Angie C.

Keep the good news coming! You can send in your news items concerning the Friday Flash community through the News Hound form or by contacting me on Facebook, Google Plus or Twitter. Or feel free to share your news by posting on the #fridayflash Facebook Group Page.

Jodi Cleghorn’s novel, “River of Bones“, has been released.

Laura Besley has work published in two anthologies:  imprint 12 – an annual anthology for Women in Publishing Society Hong Kong: – “Fractious Heat” – Aspects of Home (non-fiction)   and  Of Gods and Mobsters – an annual anthology for Hong Kong Writers Circle: – ” The Lucky Coin.”

Tom Gillespie interviews #fridayflash regular, Larry Kollar, about turning his YA Fantasy novella into a bestselling blockbuster.

Paul D. Brazill has had the third in his series of noir novellettes, “The Kelly Affair“, published  by Atlantis.

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Calum Kerr has invited everyone to submit a flashfic to FlashFlood, an international flash-fiction journal created by you and edited by a team of volunteer editors on behalf of National Flash-Fiction Day.  “The aim is simple, wherever you are in the world, we want your best flash-fictions. The word limit is 500 words, but that’s the only rule. Any subject, any genre, any style, any perspective, anything as long as it’s flash.”
Submissions close at the 23.59, Wednesday 17th April 2013 (BST).

David Barber announced that a new e-zine, THRILLS, KILLS ‘n’ CHAOS, the little brother of Thrillers, Killers ‘n’ Chillers, will be opening its door this weekend. They are looking for flashfic 1000 words or less. Crime, Thriller and Horror stories are encouraged but most genres will be accepted. Find the full submission guidelines here.

A. M. Harte is hosting a writing challenge in May to as part of National Short Story Month:

The Senseless Challenge:

1. We have five senses.
2. May has five Fridays.
3. Each Friday is dedicated to one of the senses.
4. On that Friday, you post a flash fiction focusing on that sense.
5. If you have twitter, tweet about your story with the hashtag #flashsense

Click Here for full details.

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Congratulations to everyone, and good luck!

- Angie C.

Keep the good news coming! You can send in your news items concerning the Friday Flash community through the News Hound form or by contacting me on Facebook, Google Plus or Twitter. Or feel free to share your news by posting on the #fridayflash Facebook Group Page.

L. E. White had a story accepted and published by Hazardous Press in “A Quick Bite of Flesh,” an anthology of zombie flash fiction. Read “Like Father Like Son” here.

Maria Kelly’s e-zine, the Were Traveler is accepting submissions for the next issue “Crossroads – The Realm of Death.” Drabbles (100 words), Micro (100-500 words)  Flash Fiction (under 1000 words) and Short Stories (under 2000 words). Ghosts, ghouls, haunted houses, cemeteries, factories. The realm of the dead and the people they haunt. Kudos to the best and most creative realm of death story. Deadline June 14th, 2013.

Ayris Magazine is also accepting Flash Fiction submissions for their September issue, “(Dis)Orientation.”  Spring isn’t the only time for change—with school years beginning and the leaves just starting to turn, autumn is a time for adjustment and adaptation. Submissions close Sept. 1.

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Congratulations, and good luck!

- Angie C.

Keep the good news coming! You can send in your news items concerning the Friday Flash community through the News Hound form or by contacting me on Facebook, Google Plus or Twitter. Or feel free to share your news by posting on the #fridayflash Facebook Group Page.

Laura Besley had a flash fiction piece called “Fractious Heat” published in imprint 12, the annual anthology of Women in Publishing Society. She was also asked to read it at the launch on Friday 15th March 2013.

Susan Helene Gottfried is guest editor this week on Louise Harnby’s blog to talk about… well, editing!  “Editing on the Third Rock From the Sun – Well, West of Mars, Anyway”

J. M. Strother has a guest post up on the amwriting blog. His story, “The Rains Come Down“, is the featured Friday flash fiction this past week.

Jodi Cleghorn’s novella, “Elorya” is a finalist for the Aurealis Awards for short horror.

Kevlin Henney will be reading short stories as part of Word of Mouth to help promote the Bristol Short Story Prize competition.

Elise VanCise’s book, “Don’t Touch” was just released as an e-book on Smashwords.

Larry Kollar has released “Oddities: an Anthology” on the Kindle Store. More than a collection of #FridayFlash, Oddities includes several short stories, some of which have not been published elsewhere. It was also got a five star review by Book blogger Eric Townsend.

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- Angie C. Keep the good news coming! You can send in your news items concerning the Friday Flash community through the News Hound form or by contacting me on Facebook, Google Plus or Twitter. Or feel free to share your news by posting on the #fridayflash Facebook Group Page.

Elise VanCise’s psychic thriller, “Don’t Touch” has an official re-release date on March 25^th. Be on the look out for more coming about the characters and locations.

Linda Simoni-Wastila has a small story, “Glitter Blues”, in MiCrow’s eight issue, “Luminous”. Edited by Michael Solender,  it is a gorgeous set of pictures and words around the theme of light, with a cast you will recognize.

Jodi MacArthur had not only one, but two stories published in the recent past. At Pulp Modern, she has an October story that came out in January, “Smashing Roxy“. And as part of ladies night at Pulp Metal Magazine you will find the “Deadlier than the Male” issue up with Jodi’s story “In the Pines“.

Dan Powell’s, “Storm in a Teacup”, earned itself a runners-up spot in the first ever Salt Short Story Prize. It will appear later this year in Salt’s first New Writing anthology alongside the winners and runners-up for not only the Short Story Prize but the Flash Fiction and Poetry Prize also.  Dan has been busy. He was over on the Salt blog talking about how his collection “Looking out of Broken Windows” came into being and his future plans. Head over to the Salt blog to have a read. Also, Dan’s essay on Chekhov’s “The Exclamation Mark” is live over on the short story forum, Thresholds.

Laura Eno’s book, “Immortal Desires”, has been nominated for Best Romance – Paranormal Romance 2012, by The Romance Reviews. Voting continues until March 31st, so do drop by and cast your own.

Tony Noland talks about what it feels like to be THAT GUY, on Today’s Author. “That Guy” meaning: the one who didn’t study writing in school, didn’t start off wanting to pursue a career as a writer and who often feels three or four Presidents older than most of his writer cohort. Go check it out, it is inspiring. In a different article, Tony also takes it upon himself to “question his betters” as he phrased it.

Jodi Cleghorn, after the the good news “Elyora” had found a digital home with Endeavour Press  as River of Bones, she is now also a finalist in the short horror section of the Aurealis Awards. Go read the press release for the other finalists names.

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G. P. Ching has ARCs available for her book, “Soul Catcher”.  If you are a blogger who would like to read and review, please email her and include a link to your blog.

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Congratulations to everyone!

-Estrella Azul & Angie C.

Keep the good news coming! You can send in your news items concerning the Friday Flash community through the News Hound form or by contacting me on Facebook, Google Plus or Twitter. Or feel free to share your news by posting on the #fridayflash Facebook Group Page.

Jodi Cleghorn  has a story in Fablecroft’s next anthology “ONE SMALL STEP: an anthology of discoveries,” and it is now available for pre-order. The all female anthology will launch at NatCon/Conflux next month. As Jodi herself phrased it: “Looking at the ToC, I still pinch myself…that “Firefly Epilogue” sits alongside stories of some of my favourite authors.”

Elise VanCise is taking part in Authors in the Park. It is a live Authors in the Park Panel on The G-Zone on Blog Talk Radio. It was her first radio appearance and even though she felt like a stumblin’ bumblin’ fool (her own words), she found the experience great fun. You can listen to the show here.

Nick Bryan has a serial up on JukePop serials – “Hobson and Choi“. JukePop lets readers decide what series to keep running, so stop by, have a read and cast your vote.

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Congratulations to everyone!

-Angie C.

Keep the good news coming! You can send in your news items concerning the Friday Flash community through the News Hound form or by contacting me on Facebook, Google Plus or Twitter. Or feel free to share your news by posting on the #fridayflash Facebook Group Page.