Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook

In Brevity, David Galef provides a guide to writing flash fiction, from tips on technique to samples by canonical and contemporary authors to provocative prompts that inspire powerful stories in a little space. Galef traces the genre back to its varied origins, from the short-short to nanofiction, with examples that include vignettes, prose poems, character sketches, fables, lists, twist stories, surrealism, and metafiction. The authors range from the famous, such as Colette and Borges, to today's voices, like Roxane Gay and Bruce Holland Rogers. A writer and longtime creative writing teacher, Galef also shows how flash fiction skills translate to other types of writing. Brevity is an indispensable resource for anyone working in this increasingly popular form. For more information, see davidgalef.com/brevity.

Literature & Fiction

Galef, David

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

For every Hamlet, there is a supporting cast; for every Mrs. Dalloway, an entire realm of subordinate portraits. Yet if literary criticism cares at all about significant detail, emergent patterns, and the subtleties in narrative, flat and minor characters are crucial to an understanding of the fictional process itself.Beginning with E. M. Forster's landmark study of flat and round characters, this book is both a critical and writerly examination of the species: Why are certain minor characters so salient in readers' minds, and why are flat characters often so comic? Is a name enough to create a character, and if so, what is the vanishing point of characterization? The walking allegory, the narrator, the disrupter, the doppelgänger—how are they used, and to what effect? The Supporting Cast first explores the theoretical limits of character, from structuralist taxonomies to reader-response concerns, with examples culled from a wide range of literature. The author then applies these concepts, in chapters of sustained analysis, to works of Conrad, Forster, and Woolf. The work also provides comments on flat and minor characters in other media and a full-scale character index of Woolf's Jacob's Room.

The Supporting Cast: A Study of Flat and Minor Characters

Penn State University Press

For every Hamlet, there is a supporting cast; for every Mrs. Dalloway, an entire realm of subordinate portraits. Yet if literary criticism cares at all about significant detail, emergent patterns, and the subtleties in narrative, flat and minor characters are crucial to an understanding of the fictional process itself.Beginning with E. M. Forster's landmark study of flat and round characters, this book is both a critical and writerly examination of the species: Why are certain minor characters so salient in readers' minds, and why are flat characters often so comic? Is a name enough to create a character, and if so, what is the vanishing point of characterization? The walking allegory, the narrator, the disrupter, the doppelg¿nger-how are they used, and to what effect? The Supporting Cast first explores the theoretical limits of character, from structuralist taxonomies to reader-response concerns, with examples culled from a wide range of literature. He then applies these concepts, in chapters of sustained analysis, to works of Conrad, Forster, and Woolf. The work also provides comments on flat and minor characters in other media and a full-scale character index of Woolf's Jacob's Room.

Tracks

scholastic

When Albert breaks his glasses while supervising the laying of the railroad tracks between two towns, he becomes responsible for one of the most exciting rides that the townspeople have ever had.

Children's Books

William Morrow & Co.

The new train line is in place, the passengers are on the train, and the train is on its way, Albert, the nearsighted track layer, cannot see the train coming, prompting a wild ride for the conductor and his passengers, in a funny and colorful tale.

Even Monkeys Fall from Trees and Other Japanese Proverbs

Tuttle Pub

Even Monkeys Fall from Trees: The Wit and Wisdom of Japanese Proverbs

HashiPoto, Jun

Tuttle+publishing

The Singularity is a new speculative fiction magazine, based in London, England, that publishes short stories that are singular in voice and style. Issue 3 features another ten stories from award-winning and new writers from around the world, including our first translated piece and our first collaborated story: "The Shackles of Memory" by Mjke Wood, "Bee Futures" by Vaughan Stanger, "Mission Creep" by David Galef, "Waters of Lethe" by Ian Sales, "Islands of Light in a Sea of Darkness" by Mike Jansen, "

The Singularity magazine (Issue 3)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Sales, Ian

Jeffreys, Tim

Jansen, Mike

Khaw, Winnie

Wood, Mjke

STANGER, VAUGHAN

Hogg, Lee P.

Greaves, Martin

Rose, Anton

Science Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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