Category: Interviews and Features

An interview with founding collectors Robert Shapard, Tara Lynn Masih, Robert Scotellaro, Pamela Painter and Tom Hazuka. Michelle Elvy: How wonderful to hear of this…

Panelists Christopher Allen, SmokeLong Quarterly (Germany), is the author of the flash fiction collection Other Household Toxins. His work has appeared most recently in The…

Panelists Diane Brown, Every Now and then I Have Another Child (Otago University Press, 2020). Diane Brown is a novelist, memoirist, and poet who runs…

Contributors Best Microfiction 2020 Steven John’s writing has appeared in Pithead Chapel, Bending Genres, Spelk, Fictive Dream, EllipsisZine and Best Microfiction 2019 and 2020, among…

This year’s judges for the adult competition were Sandra Arnold and Helen Heath. Thank you for sharing comments on the winning stories! From the judges…

Tina Shaw’s new novel was released March 24 – one day before New Zealand went to Level 4 Alert Lockdown. It’s an eerily timely novel,…

Interview Gail Ingram: You wear many hats as a writer, Heather. How does writing for children differ from the flash fiction you do? Heather McQuillan:…

After the second major earthquake in Christchurch in 2011, I wrote a short story to capture some of the horror through two fictional characters who…