July 20: Denver Fbomb with Host Nancy Stohlman and Featuring Rob Geisen in “Things That Are 50”

Our July Fbomb is a Throwback to the Very First Fbomb ever in 2013 with original host Nancy Stohlman and original featured reader Rob Geisen!

As always, expect readings from host/feature/open mic guests that are hilarious, irreverent, profound, thought-provoking, satirical, and just about everything else.

You have never been to a reading quite like Fbomb! Discretion advised (don’t bring your grandma!)

Join us on July 20 at 7:30 pm MDT on Zoom!

YOUR PROMPT

Travel back in time to the year 1971: a year that first saw the birth of Walt Disney World, the Apollo 14 Mission, the First Email, and the first McDonald’s Quarter Pounder.

What else is 50? Mark Wahlberg aka Marky Mark (raise your hand if you remember Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch). Mary J. Blige! Shannen Doherty! Ewan McGregor! Malibu Barbie!

So is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and A Clockwork Orange: 2 of the best book to film adaptations!

Both Dirty Harry and Shaft were born in 1971!

Did you know: $50 in 1971 is equivalent to about $332.34 today?

OR take another approach to the 50 number prompt: Maybe a 50 word story, a 50 sentence story, or a list of 50 Things…

There will be a limited number of open mic spots–sign up at the event!

Have fun and happy writing!

Zoom link

Nancy Stohlman’s latest book, Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction, was a 2021 Reader Views Gold Award winner, a Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist, and an International Book Awards finalist. Her fiction has been anthologized widely, appearing in the W.W. Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, Macmillan’s The Practice of Fiction, and The Best Small Fictions 2019, as well adapted for both the stage and screen. She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder and around the world. Find out more at www.nancystohlman.com

Rob Geisen. Author of Beautiful Graveyards, Paper Thin, Avenge Me, The Aftermatch etc, I See You Lewis. Guitarist, Casio Keyboardist and broken romantic for the band Girls Just Wanna Have Us. Currently focused on writing sci-fi novels and learning everything there is to learn about The Outer LImits, the history of paperback science fiction, Theodore Sturgeon, and the works of Jake E. Lee. He used to host open mics with Olatundji Akposani. He used to be Get in the car, Helen. He used to not almost be 50 years old.

Time to reconnect…

FRIENDS! Are you feeling ready to reconnect and recommit to your writing? To commune with your fellow artists again? Maybe you need a change of scenery, a new perspective?

We’ve found just the place for you!

Kathy Fish and I will soon be announcing our exciting new flash fiction adventure for February, 2022. These retreats sell out quickly! Sign up HERE if you’d like early access / info / registration!

Yes, I’m interested! Put me on the list for information and early access!

How Do You Write? with Rachel Herron: Nancy Stohlman on Why Writing Short is So Exciting

Rachel Herron and I chatted back in March about writing routines, phases of the creative process, finding flow and one of my favorite quick inspiration hacks: The Sunrise Drive. She is an amazing interviewer and we had some amazing conversations (see below for the time stamps).

00:00 Intro

00:23 What’s Going On Around Here

02:17 Taxes, Money, & Debt

12:22 Hush Little Baby Launch

13:27 Introducing Nancy Stohlman

16:00 Discussing Flash Fiction

20:03 Creating a Writing Routine

25:13 Harnessing the Different Creative Phases

27:48 Creating the Conditions to Get into Flow

29:58 Keep Writing and Editing Separate

33:44 Getting Inspired by Art

37:48 The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

38:33 For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

40:12 Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction

43:28 Outro

How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you’ll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing.

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International Book Awards AND The Great Fiction Flash Off this weekend!

The Great Festival Flash Off

Saturday, June 26, 2021

11 am to 8 pm (London time)

Cake Pops: Making a Savory Micro Sequence with Nancy Stohlman: 5:00-6:30 pm (London time)

Okay, bakers. For our technical challenge we want you to craft a string of 5-10 perfect mini-flashes into a showstopping centerpiece. The sponge should be poignant, the flavor should be profound, and the texture should be compact and dense, yet expansive and memorable. Identically perfect, well-rounded, separate, but together.

Few people know that Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets actually create a sonnet sequence. While they can obviously be read and loved alone, strung together they invite a new perspective. In this class we will use all the tricks and tools of compression, as well as consider the broader scope of a larger story. Inspired by sequences in literature and the natural world, we will crack stories open and string stories together to create a savory micro sequence that is both tiny and epic.

I promise you can’t eat just one!

More info and Register Here

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AND….

Going Short is feeling like a rock star today!

(*just announced) International Book Awards: Finalist

Next Generation Book Awards: Finalist

Reader Views Award: Winner

Thank you to Ad Hoc Fiction and everyone who has believed in this book!

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