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In Writing Flash, Fred White has compiled a wonderfully compact resource for writers. --Chris Tusa, editor, Fiction Southeast, and author of The Yellow Girl There is more to Flash than just its brevity, and White provides discerning writers with many lenses through which to understand and explore the diverse range and multiple styles of Flash. This insightful text, a welcome contribution, captures the essence of this important genre. --Opal Palmer Adisa, author of Love's Promise. This is a thoughtful book that covers flash fiction from Aesop to podcasts. White analyzes his own writing as well as others' to find those quintessential elements of storytelling that may particularly shine in abbreviated form. --Hannah Voskuil , flash fiction writer and author of Horus and the Curse of Everlasting Regret

There is more to Flash than just its brevity, and White provides discerning writers with many lenses through which to understand and explore the diverse range and multiple styles of Flash. This insightful text, a welcome contribution, captures the essence of this important genre. --Opal Palmer Adisa, author of Love's Promise. This is a thoughtful book that covers flash fiction from Aesop to podcasts. White analyzes his own writing as well as others' to find those quintessential elements of storytelling that may particularly shine in abbreviated form. --Hannah Voskuil , flash fiction writer and author of Horus and the Curse of Everlasting Regret

This is a thoughtful book that covers flash fiction from Aesop to podcasts. White analyzes his own writing as well as others' to find those quintessential elements of storytelling that may particularly shine in abbreviated form. --Hannah Voskuil , flash fiction writer and author of Horus and the Curse of Everlasting Regret

A well-composed manual for aspiring writers ... White's exercises and advice should also serve as a good spring board for anyone interested in teaching themselves creative writing or wanting to try out a new genre. --Manhattan Book Review In Writing Flash, Fred White has compiled a wonderfully compact resource for writers. --Chris Tusa, editor, Fiction Southeast, and author of The Yellow Girl Provides a modern course in all the techniques of notable flash stories to provide writers with all the basics they need to build a reputation on flash fiction. --Midwest Book Review A unique and ground-breaking instructional guide and reference that deserves to be a part of every aspiring author's personal 'how to' collection who wants to establish a flexible, varied and successful career as a published writer. --MBR Bookwatch There is more to Flash than just its brevity, and White provides discerning writers with many lenses through which to understand and explore the diverse range and multiple styles of Flash. This insightful text, a welcome contribution, captures the essence of this important genre. --Opal Palmer Adisa, author of Love's Promise. This is a thoughtful book that covers flash fiction from Aesop to podcasts. White analyzes his own writing as well as others' to find those quintessential elements of storytelling that may particularly shine in abbreviated form. --Hannah Voskuil , flash fiction writer and author of Horus and the Curse of Everlasting Regret

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Fred D. White received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. He has taught courses in writing and literature in Minnesota and, since 1980, at Santa Clara University in Northern California, where he is now Professor of English, Emeritus. In 1996 White received the Louis and Dorina Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence. White has published several books on writing, as well as dozens of stories, essays, poems, and plays. He lives with his wife in Rancho Cordoba, California.

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