Prompts - an every growing collection
E. A. Deverll One Page Stories OK just check out her website all things writing…
13 Tips for Writing Flash Fiction (would work for memoir also)
Creative Nonfiction Prompts by John Matthew Fox
Journal Prompts - [Mari L. McCarthy has remarkable story also]
52 Memoir Prompts by Jeri Walker
This will be a growing list of links and resources, ideas and hopefully inspiration for myself and other writers. I suggest you check out the online journals first.
Websites of Flash Writing
Brevity Magazine http://brevitymag.com/ The premier flash online.
Riverteeth Journal http://www.riverteethjournal.com/
Narrative https://www.narrativemagazine.com/
Hobart http://www.hobartpulp.com/
Shenandoah https://shenandoahliterary.org/
Flash Fiction Online http://flashfictiononline.com/main/
100 Word Story http://www.100wordstory.org/ Has a great list of other online journals on right
Everyday Fiction https://everydayfiction.com/
Electric Literature https://electricliterature.com/ Meg Pokrass story
Creative Non-fiction Online http://www.creativenonfiction.org/
The Moth - True stories, told live
https://www.themoth.org/ https://themoth.org/stories/journey-into-another-dimension
Poetic Devices and definitions (try using one and write a story) https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/251961
What is Flash Fiction https://www.tckpublishing.com/what-is-flash-fiction/
Books On Writing
Moore, Dinty W. The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers. Rose Metal Press, 2012.
Goldberg, Natalie. Old Friend from Far Away: the Practice of Writing Memoir. Atria Paperback, 2017.
Badonsky, Jill Baldwin. The Muse Is in: an Owner's Manual to Your Creativity. Running Press, 2013.
Linden, Kaye. 35 Tips for Writing a Brilliant Flash Story: a Manual for Writing Flash Fiction and Nonfiction. Self, 2015.
Ueland, Brenda, If You Want to Write. Graywolf, 1987.
Browdy, Jennifer. The Elemental Journey of Purposeful Memoir: a Writer's Companion. Green Fire Press, 2017.
Fox, John. Poetic Medicine: the Healing Art of Poem-Making. Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1997.
McClanahan, Rebecca. Word Painting: a Guide to Writing More Descriptively. Writer's Digest, 1999.
How to Write Flash Fiction. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/14/how-to-write-flash-fiction
Books and Journals of Flash Writing
Kitchen, Judith, and Mary Paumier Jones. In Short: a Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction. Norton, 1996. Judith Kitchen has edited 3 books of shorts, In Brief, (1999) and Short Takes (2005).
