Writing the Very Short Story John Dufresne. Norton, $15.95 trade paper ... These prompts are supplemented by well-chosen quotations and full samples of works by other authors, ...

A Very Short Story. For Spring, The Mini Is Back. Better Hold On To Your Hem. November 23, 2002. By Robin Givhan. NEW YORK -- In the sweet fantasies of designers, spring 2003 will bring a bold ...

Lydia Davis, who was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, has been publishing short stories utterly unlike anyone else’s for almost 40 years. Sometimes as brief as a sentence or ...

Don't tell John Dufresne you don't have time to read. In fact, don't tell him you don't have time to write. Instead, spend a little time with his new book, Flash! Writing the Very Short Story. You ...

Winners from the WHO's short film fest were grim, inspiring and NSFW-ish : Goats and Soda Honorees from the World Health Organization's Health for all Film Festival tell stories of pain — but ...

Very short stories can get very, very short and still be good. The most famous example (supposedly written by Ernest Hemingway) draws a little sigh with only six words; it's a sales ad.

A genius came to Brown on Thursday. Lydia Davis, recipient of a MacArthur ‘genius' fellowship and innovator of the very short story, gave a reading of her recent work in the McCormack Family Theater.

Wired has a feature in the current issue called Very Short Stories. Here’s a snippet from the intro to explain what it’s about: We’ll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ...

In 2009, Sean Hill, founder of Austin's Hideout Theater, started the Twitter feed @VeryShortStory, where he writes 140-character stories. His new book, "Very Short Stories: 300 Bite-Size Works of ...