Day 19: Photo Prompt

(Photo credit Alex Strachan)

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from the flash fiction visionary Tara Lynn Masih!

“When I saw this photo, taken by a talented family member, it made my imagination take off to many different places. I never got around to writing a flash to go with it, so we’re gifting it to you all to do so!”

Tara Lynn Masih is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award for Young Readers for her debut novel My Real Name Is Hanna. Her anthologies include The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction and The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays. How We Disappear: Novella & Stories, her latest collection, won a 2022 Florida Book Award. She founded the Intercultural Essay Prize in 2006 and The Best Small Fictions series in 2015.

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TaraMasih.com

My Real Name Is Hanna

Bestselling, award-winning novel on WWII Ukraine
How We Disappear: Novella & Stories

A MILLIONS Most Anticipated Book for 2022

A 2022 Florida Book Award Winner

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Day 18: The dog was confused by what had just happened…

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from the directors of the International Flash Fiction Association, Peter Blair and Ashley Chantler

The International Flash Fiction Association for readers, writers, and researchers of flash fiction is directed by Drs Peter Blair and Ashley Chantler, Department of English, University of Chester, UK. Peter Blair and Ashley Chantler are Senior Lecturers in English at the University of Chester, where they teach on the BA and MA programmes in Creative Writing and English Literature. They are the founders and editors of Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine and Flash: The International Short-Short Story Press. 

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Day 17: Write a story in which a child must parent their elder

(Inspiration: In Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut, Kilgore Trout tries to write a short story about meeting his father in heaven, but his father has decided to spend the afterlife as himself at nine-years-old while Trout enters heaven as a forty-four year old man. )

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from a fellow Coloradoan, the lovely and award-winning Kali Fajardo-Anstine!

Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s first book isthe widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina & Corina (Random House, 2019), a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Bingham Prize, the Story Prize, the Saroyan International Prize, and winner of a American Book Award and a Reading the West Award in Fiction.

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Day 16: Write a story that takes place before sunrise…

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from me! xoxo

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After the Rapture: a flash novel

Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction

Open Your Art: Flash Fiction Retreats 
(1 spot left for Costa Rica 2024!)

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