Flash Bibliography

The following lists the anthologies, collections and magazines in the ‘Flash Fiction Special Collection', Seaborne Library, University of Chester.
Allen, Roberta, Fast Fiction: Creating Fiction in Five Minutes (Cincinnati: Story Press, 1997)

Atwood, Margaret, Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems (London: Virago, 1994)

Barthelme, Donald, Sixty Stories (London: Penguin, 2003)

Beckel, Abigail, and Kathleen Rooney (eds), Brevity and Echo: An Anthology of Short Short Stories (Boston: Rose Metal Press, 2006)

Blair, Peter (ed.), That's Historical: An Anthology of Short Stories and Factual Articles (Chester: Peter Blair, 2008)

Blair, Peter (ed.), It's About Time: An Anthology of Short Stories and Factual Articles (Chester: Peter Blair, 2009)

Brooks, David, Black Sea (London: Allen and Unwin, 1997)

Budman, Mark, and Tom Hazuka (eds), You Have Time for This: Contemporary American Short-Short Stories (Portland: Ooligan Press, 2007)

[Burns, Sam (ed.)], Ada and More Nano-Fiction (Abercynon: Leaf, 2009)

[Burns, Sam (ed.)], Derek and More Micro-Fiction (Abercynon: Leaf, 2007)

[Burns, Sam (ed.)], Discovering a Comet and More Micro-Fiction (Abercynon: Leaf, 2008)

Chantler, Ashley (ed.), An Anatomy of Chester (Chester: Chester Academic Press, 2007)

Chinquee, Kim, Oh Baby: Flash Fiction and Prose Poetry (Spokane, WA: Ravenna, 2008)

Clapper, David (ed.), SmokeLong Annual: Autumn 2003-Summer 2004 (SmokeLong Quarterly, 2004)

Clapper, David (ed.), SmokeLong Annual: Autumn 2004-Summer 2005 (SmokeLong Quarterly, 2005)

Conners, Peter (ed.), PP/FF: An Anthology (Buffalo, NY: Starcherone, 2006)

David, Jack, and John Redfern (eds), Short Short Stories (New York: ECW Press, 1986)

Donovan, Maria, Tea for Mr Dead: Short Short Stories (Abercynon: Leaf, 2006)

Doran, Phil, Spaghetti Fiction Too: Another Book of Very Short Stories (Cambridge: Garlic Press, 2008)

Eagleman, David, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2009)

Eggers, Dave, Short Short Stories (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2005)

Gaffney, David, Sawn-Off Tales (Cambridge: Salt, 2006)

Gingher, Marianne (ed.), Long Story Short: Flash Fiction by Sixty-Five of North Carolina's Finest Writers (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009)

Goodman, Roger (ed.), 75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature (London: Bantam, 2005)

Gordon, Karen Elizabeth, The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales (Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1996)

Guy, Molly, Reading Between the Lines (Port Adelaide: Ginninderra Press, 2009)

Gwyn, Richard, Walking on Bones (Cardiff: Parthian, 2003)

Haney, John B., Flash Fiction Plus: For Reading on the Go (New York: iUniverse, 2007)

Harwood, Lee, Dream Quilt: 30 Assorted Stories (Lenton, Nottingham: Slow Dancer Press, 1985)

Hempel, Amy, The Dog of the Marriage: The Collected Short Stories (London: Quercus, 2009)

Horwitz, Allan Kolski, Out of the Wreckage (Braamfontein, Johannesburg: Botsotso, 2007)

How to Write Flash Fiction (Quick Easy Guides, 2008)

Howe, Irving, and Ilana Wiener Howe (eds), Short Shorts: An Anthology of the Shortest Stories (New York: Bantam, 1983)

Howitt, Holly, Dinner Time (Blaenau Ffestiniog: Cinnamon Press, 2008)

Jobson, Liesl, 100 Papers: A Collection of Prose Poems and Flash Fiction (Braamfontein, Johannesburg: Botsotso, 2008)

Kawabata, Yasunari, The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories, trans. J. Martin Holman (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1998)

Kawabata, Yasunari, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, trans. Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)

Lennon, J. Robert, Pieces for the Left Hand: 100 Anecdotes (London: Granta, 2005)

Madden, Matt, 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (London: Jonathan Cape, 2006)

Masih, Tara L. (ed.), The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction (Boston: Rose Metal Press, 2009)

Michelle, Louise, Fifty-One Flash Fiction Stories (Charlestown, South Carolina: Booksurge, 2009)

Moolman, Kobus, Separating the Seas (Piertermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007)

Moore, Dinty W. (ed.), Sudden Stories: The Mammoth Book of Miniscule Fiction (DuBois, PA: Mammoth, 2003)

Moss, Steve (ed.), The World's Shortest Stories (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1999)

Moss, Steve, and John M. Daniel (eds), The World's Shortest Stories of Love and Death (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1999)

Mukherjee, Wanda Wade (ed.), Blink: Flash Fiction Before You Can Bat an Eye (Wake Forest, NC: Paper Journey Press, 2006)

Mukherjee, Wanda Wade, and Sharlene Baker (eds), Women Behaving Badly: Feisty Flash Fiction Stories (Durham, NC: Paper Journey Press, 2004)

Oblonsky, Jerry, Short Shorts: Tales from the World Series to a Rest Home in Australia and Others (Parker, Colorado: Outskirts Press, 2005)

Qi, Shouhua (ed., trans), The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China (Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2008)

Queneau, Raymond, Exercises in Style, trans. Barbara Wright (London: John Calder, 1979)

Raven, Paul Graham (ed.), Illuminations: The Friday Flash Fiction Anthology (St Albans: Odd Two Out, 2008)

Reeves, Craig, Flash Fiction (New York: Vantage Press, 2005)

Reeves, Craig, Flash Fiction II (New York: Vantage Press, 2008)

Rhodes, Dan, Anthropology and a Hundred Other Stories (London: Canongate, 2005)

Shapard, Robert, and James Thomas (eds), Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories (New York: Gibbes M. Smith, 1986)

Shapard, Robert, and James Thomas (eds), Sudden Fiction International: 60 Short-Short Stories (New York: Norton, 1989)

Shapard, Robert, and James Thomas (eds), Sudden Fiction (Continued): 60 New Short-Short Stories (New York: Norton, 1996)

Shapard, Robert, and James Thomas (eds), New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond (New York: Norton, 2007)

Shua, Ana Maria, Quick Fix: Sudden Fiction, trans. Rhonda Dahl Buchanan (Buffalo, NY: White Pine, 2008)

Shua, Ana Maria, Microfictions, trans. Steven J. Stewart (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2009)

Stern, Jerome (ed.), Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Really Short Stories (New York: Norton, 1996)

Swenson, Jack, The Night Heron's Scream: Flash Fiction (New York: iUniverse, 2007)

Thomas, James, Denise Thomas and Tom Hazuka (eds), Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories (New York: Norton, 1992)

Thomas, James, and Robert Shapard (eds), Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories (New York: Norton, 2006)

Wild, Peter (ed.), The Flash (London: Social Disease, 2007)

Wilson, Michael, Flash Writing: How to Write, Revise and Publish Stories Less Than 1,000 Words Long (College Station, Texas: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, 2004)

Wood, William Ransom (ed.), Short Short Stories (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1951)

Yourgrau, Barry, A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane: Stories (New York: Arcade, 1999)

Yourgrau, Barry, Wearing Dad's Head: Stories (New York: Arcade, 1999)

Zahava, Irene (ed.), Word of Mouth: Volume 2: Short-Short Stories By 100 Women Writers (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1991)

Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

Quick Fiction

The Southeast Review

Vestal Review


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