I wrote the brief craft essay below, about common traps that keep writers from writing well-plotted flash fiction, for Flash Fiction Chronicles. I’m currently teaching a flash fiction course and my students and I have spent a fair amount of class time discussing the borderlands between flash fiction and prose poetry. While I agree that there’sContinue reading “How to Avoid Avoiding Plot”
Author Archives: aubrey
New Story: “Amelia”
I’ve got a new story, “Amelia,” up at SmokeLong Quarterly. You can also read a thoughtful review of “Amelia” over at Vouched. UPDATE: Turns out my theory behind Amelia Earhart’s disappearance may not be fiction after all.
Never Again & Word Choice
Doug Nufer’s book Never Again has only just come to my attention, despite being published in 2002 (apparently). As the title hints, Nufer uses any given word only once—never again. I only read enough of the book to see how this constraint would work, and I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. Most ofContinue reading “Never Again & Word Choice”
About
Aubrey Hirsch is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of Why We Never Talk About Sugar, a collection of short stories, and This Will Be His Legacy, a flash fiction chapbook. Her stories, essays and poems have appeared in literary journals both in print and online including American Short Fiction, Third Coast, Hobart,Continue reading “About”
Aubrey Hirsch 