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In a Current Comment item in the America issue of March 2, 2008, the editors commented on “microfiction,” the venerable subgenre of fiction that forsakes the traditional short story length, usually ...

Follow your heart and your dreams will come true is a cutesy Hallmark sentiment. Follow your heart and your dreams will probably come crashing into a heap around you is the more realistic version, one ...

Young writers and organising team members in an online discussion during last year’s Green Microfiction Challenge. THE Green Microfiction Challenge is back with the opportunity for young Malaysians to ...

Microfiction written on a chalkboard on the kitchen cabinets of writer Joseph Young's "MicroFiction Rowhouse" in Hampden, Maryland. Young, in background seated next to a table, has written his ...

A couple years ago, startup publisher Serial Box launched with an aim to publish stories in a slightly different way: tell a longer story by breaking it up into manageable, shorter stories, written by ...

BALTIMORE — I’m at the front door of artist Joseph Young’s house, in the middle of a lovely block in the lovely neighborhood of Hampden. It’s a perfect October day. Instead of a welcome mat, I just ...

Instituto Cervantes de Manila, in partnership with the Embassy of Spain and the University of the Philippines – Diliman, will host "Lo bueno, si breve" (The good, if brief), a microfiction workshop in ...

Instituto Cervantes de Manila, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines and the University of the Philippines Diliman, will present “Lo bueno, si breve,” a workshop on ...