Cultivate joy. This should be fun – why else do it?
All writing is paradoxical – that’s the joy and the mystery.
Cultivate discipline – schedules, deadlines, routines, word counts.
Cultivate joy. This should be fun – why else do it?
All writing is paradoxical – that’s the joy and the mystery.
Cultivate discipline – schedules, deadlines, routines, word counts.
Comments from the judges of the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day competition Flash fiction should emphasise compression, concision and language working at maximum force to convey a situation or scenario, or best of all some insight or epiphany transcending the mundane and the quotidian. Flash fiction needs to be good at suggesting the allusive, the […]
Brooke Singer writes and performs in the band French for Rabbits, called ‘pioneers’ of atmospheric, delicate dream-pop and have received international acclaim for their emotionally evocative music.
How does the short story situate itself in Aotearoa's literary history and how will this new publishing arrangement further support the development of short stories in our culture?