CRW 4930: Flash Fiction / Micro Memoir

Flash Fiction Literary Magazines of Special Interest

3:AM Magazine
A literary magazine dedicated to short fiction and poetry, and especially open to flash.
Predator Press
Science fiction in flash fiction format.
Smokelong Quarterly
An online literary magazine devoted to flash fiction.
Southeast Review
A magazine devoted to high quality literature from new writers, hosting international writing contests, including the world’s first flash fiction contest; also open to flash fiction all year long.
Vestal Review
The oldest magazine dedicated exclusively to flash fiction.
Night Train
Online magazine looking for the best short fiction, including flash, from new, emerging writers.

Micro Memoir Literary Magazines of Special Interest

100 Word Story
A magazine that prides itself on taking only the shortest of the short at a 100 words per piece.
Defunct
A well-respected magazine that publishes short non-fiction.
Thread
An independent online literary publication featuring short personal essays, memoir, creative nonfiction and photography.
River Teeth
A journal of nonfiction narrative.
Students interested in micro-memoir should examine the section “Beautiful Things.”

Individual Pieces of Flash and Micro of Special Interest

What I Hold Dear
A photo essay by Amanda Boe
My Body in Parts
By Megan Goss
You Were Home
A multimedia poem by Stephen James
Calling Mom Home
By Elizabeth Bouquet
Wanting
By Andy West

Anthologies Featuring Flash and Micro

Mixed by Rebecca Walker (Introduction); Chandra Prasad (Editor)
ISBN: 9780393327861

Publication Date: 2006

At USF St. Pete Library
New Sudden Fiction by James Thomas; Robert Shapard
ISBN: 9780393328011

Publication Date: 2007-01-17
Sudden Fiction Latino by Ray Gonzalez; Robert Shapard; James Thomas; Luisa Valenzuela
ISBN: 9780393336450

Publication Date: 2010
Flash Fiction Forward by James Thomas; Robert Shapard
ISBN: 9780393328028

Publication Date: 2006-08-17

At USF St. Pete Library
In Brief by Judith Kitchen (Editor); Mary Paumier Jones
ISBN: 9780393319071

Publication Date: 1999

Not at USF; request from Interlibrary Loan
This Is Not a Border by Ahdaf Soueif (Editor)
ISBN: 9781632868848

Publication Date: 2017

Not at USF; request from Interlibrary Loan
Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction by Judith Kitchen
ISBN: 9780393326000

Publication Date: 2005

Not at USF; request from Interlibrary Loan
Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction by Judith Kitchen (Editor)
ISBN: 9780393350999

Publication Date: 2015

Not at USF; request from Interlibrary Loan
Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres by Marcela Sulak (Editor); Jacqueline Kolosov (Editor)
ISBN: 9781941628027

Publication Date: 2015

Not at USF; request from Interlibrary Loan
One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box by Sarah Manguso; Dave Eggers; Deb Olin Unferth
ISBN: 9781932416824

Publication Date: 2007

Not at USF; request from Interlibrary Loan
My Very End of the Universe by Chris Bower; Margaret Patton Chapman; Tiff Holland; Meg Pokrass; Aaron Teel
ISBN: 9780988764583

Publication Date: 2014

Not at USF; request from Interlibrary Loan
They Could No Longer Contain Themselves by Elizabeth Colen; John Jodzio; Tim Jones-Yelvington; Sean Lovelace; Mary Miller
ISBN: 9780984616619

Publication Date: 2011

Not at USF; request from Interlibrary Loan

Single Author Collections of Flash and Micro

Severance by Robert Olen Butler
ISBN: 9780811860987

Publication Date: 2008-04-30
Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas
ISBN: 9780385720557

Publication Date: 2001
All Movies Love the Moon by Gregory Robinson
ISBN: 9780988764552

Publication Date: 2014

Not at USF; request from Interlibrary Loan
The Kind of Girl by Kim Henderson
ISBN: 9780988764521

Publication Date: 2013

Not at USF; request from Interlibrary Loan
We Know What We Are by Mary Hamilton
ISBN: 9780978984892

Publication Date: 2010

Not at USF; request from Interlibrary Loan
Intercourse by Robert Olen Butler
ISBN: 9780811863575

Publication Date: 2008

Not at USF; request from Interlibrary Loan