STUFF WE LIKE

• 33 Collective is an artist owned gallery in the Zhou B. Center in Chicago that opened in late 2004. Three of the owners of this exciting new space have been featured in the gallery of Flashquake — Javier Chavira, Carla Carr and Sergio Gomez. Shows at this gallery are archived at the site: http://www.33collective.com.

• Michael Wilson's new website, should be completed by the end of the year and will include flash writing resources, articles, markets, and links of interest to short-short story writers.
  http://www.flashwriting.com

• Former flashquake contributor Bob Thurber has written to announce a new venture, MicroFiction.net, an annual print anthology and online showcase for legitimate short stories that fit on a page or two: http://microfiction.net

• Amsterdam Scriptum is an online literary journal featuring flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. The purpose of Amsterdam Scriptum is to provide a venue for talented writers. Visit Amsterdam Scriptum at http://www.stabbert.com/amsterdamscriptum.htm.

• Grist for the Muse is your FREE monthly creative writing e-newsletter designed to get you writing and keep you writing. With writing exercises, advice, book and website reviews, and occasional shameless self-promotion, Grist for the Muse helps you maximize your writing potential. To sign up:

  • Go to http://www.topica.com/lists/Grist_for_the_Muse
  • Or send a BLANK e-mail to: Grist_for_the_Muse-subscribe@topica.com
  • OR — If you do not want to join Topica, send e-mail to muse@flashwriting.com requesting a subscription

• The Flash Fiction Flash is a monthly newsletter devoted to short-short literature 2,000 words or less (including short-short stories, prose poetry, creative nonfiction, haibun, flash memoirs, and flash plays). It includes publishing news, market information, a feature article on the art of flash literature and details of available workshops. To subscribe:
  URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashFictionFlash
  Or send a blank e-mail to FlashFictionFlash-Subscribe@yahoogroups.com

• These Waves of Girls, the Electronic Literature Organization's 2001 Fiction Award Winner, bills itself as a "hypermedia novella." We think it just might be the model for the future of literature. From the ELO site:
  "These Waves of Girls" is a hypermedia novella exploring memory, girlhoods, cruelty, childhood play and sexuality. The piece is composed as a series of small stories, artifacts, interconnections and meditations from the point of view of a four year old, a ten-year old, a twenty year old..."
  URL: http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/waves/
  NOTE: This site requires Macromedia's Flash plug-in, and it may not be accessible to those using assistive technologies.

• Moira Allen's site at Writing World.
  URL: http://www.writing-world.com/services/wanted.html

• Fiction Warehouse is a weekly ezine that publishes established writers who are interested in short stories with a literary leaning.
  URL: http://fictionwarehouse.com/index.asp

• e-writers.net is a site devoted to those who produce online content.
  URL: http://e-writers.net

• Toasted Cheese is difficult to define. It's a writer's community, a journal, a creativity resource...and home of the snarkers. See for yourself what a tangled web they weave!

• Insolent Rudder offers a monthly dose of fine flash fiction.
  URL: http://www.insolentrudder.org

• The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.>
  URL: http://www.oed.com/

• yourDictionary.com provides the most comprehensive and authoritative portal for language & language-related products and services on the web with more than 1800 dictionaries with more than 250 languages. More than 1,500,000 people a month visit YDC.
  URL: http://www.yourdictionary.com/

• The Encyclopadia Britannica is the world's most comprehensive reference product, a distinction it has held since its first publication in 1768. EB Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use EB Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
  URL: http://www.eb.com/

• Bartleby.Com is just about the best all-purpose reference site on the Internet. It includes Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the Columbia Encyclopedia, the American Heritage Dictionary and too many other resources to list here. And it's named after Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scrivener — what else could you want!
  URL: http://www.bartleby.com/

• Brevity is the flash companion to Creative Nonfiction's web site. According to the Brevity listing on the Creative Nonfiction site:
  "Brevity publishes extremely brief literary nonfiction of a crisp,concise 750 words or less, focusing on detail and scene over thought and opinion."
  URL: http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/brevity.html

WRITING WORKSHOPS

• Flash Fiction Writing Workshop (online, free)
  URL: http://home.att.net/~p.casto
• Suddenly Flash Fiction Workshop (online writing course)
  URL: http://www.coffeehouseforwriters.com/flash.html
• FlashXer (Flash Fiction Exercise List-- Online, Free)
  URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashXer
• Writer Talk List (where members determine the topic)
  URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WriterTalk
• Flash Memoirs Writing Workshop (online, free)
  URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashMemoirs