Day 30: Write a 30-word story

Today’s prompt comes from me!

A HUGE thank you to all my celebrity guests
–how much fun was this???

And a HUGE thank you to all of you–the biggest FlashNano yet!

 Let’s do it again next year!

**AND just for FlashNano folks, a special invitation to join me on January 12 for a brand new live Creative Visioncasting 2024 Workshop: (see below)

Nancy Stohlman is the creator of FlashNano, The Fbomb Reading Series, and the author of six books including After the Rapture (2023), Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities (2018), The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories (2014), The Monster Opera (2013), Searching for Suzi: a flash novel (2009), and Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction (2020), winner of the 2021 Reader Views Gold Award and re-released in 2022 as an audiobook. She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder and holds workshops and retreats around the world. Find out more at http://www.nancystohlman.com

CHECK OUT:

LIVE Creative Visioncasting 2024: a special 90-minute workshop and strategy session to envision and implement a year of creative clarity, confidence, and courage

use code FlashNano2023 to join us for 50% off

Flash Fiction Retreats 2024 Early Announcement Waiting List

SO PROUD OF YOU ALL!!

---

All 2023 prompts here:

Not already on the FlashNano list? JOIN US

We’ve been writing 30 Stories: 30 Days during the month of November since 2012! 

Day 29: “I send cards to people and sign them from their casual acquaintances…”

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from a truly one-of-a-kind writer and Fbomb NYC host Paul Beckman!

**AND join me on Friday, December 1, at 6 pm EST for Paul’s Fbomb NYC feature and Virtual Book Launch for Becoming Mirsky. 
(For the Zoom Link Contact Paul Beckman at: paul@paulbeckman.com)

Paul Beckman’s last flash collection, “Kiss Kiss” was a finalist for the Best Indie Awards for short story collections 2019. Paul had a micro-story selected for the 2018 Norton Anthology New Micro Exceptionally Short Fiction, was one of the winners in the 2016 The Best Small Fictions and his story “Mom’s Goodbye” was chosen as the winner of the 2016 Fiction Southeast Editor’s Prize. Paul was nominated for the 2019 Best Small fiction series and had a story accepted for the 2022 Best of Microfictions. He’s widely published with over 750 stories. 

CHECK OUT:

Paul Beckman’s Website 

Becoming Mirsky

---

All 2023 prompts here:

Not already on the FlashNano list? JOIN US

We’ve been writing 30 Stories: 30 Days during the month of November since 2012! 

Day 28: Find a few moments to look at the image below, and let it sink in–wait until something in the image wants to be written–and write…”

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from the uber talented Vanessa Gebbie and her brand new book 51 and a Half Games and Ideas for Writers!

Vanessa Gebbie is a novelist and award-winning short storyist. Author of two collections: Words from a Glass Bubble and Storm Warning (Salt), her novel The Coward’s Tale (Bloomsbury UK/US) was selected as a UK Financial Times Book of the Year and Guardian readers’ book of the year.

CHECK OUT:

Vanessa Gebbie’s website

51 and a Half Games and Ideas for Writers

---

All 2023 prompts here:

Not already on the FlashNano list? JOIN US

We’ve been writing 30 Stories: 30 Days during the month of November since 2012! 

Day 27: She went on, deeper into the woods… 

Today’s celebrity prompt was brought to you from the birthday girl herself, Sally Reno!

Sally Reno lives in a vaporish grotto where she serves as Pythoness to Blink Ink Print and Haruspex for Shining Mountain Press. Her fiction has been among the winners of National Public Radio’s Three Minute Fiction Contest, the Moon Milk Review Prosetry Contest, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

CHECK OUT:

www.blink-ink.org

---

All 2023 prompts here:

Not already on the FlashNano list? JOIN US

We’ve been writing 30 Stories: 30 Days during the month of November since 2012!