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Staff Updates: Spring 2021

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Staff Updates Spring 2021

We’ve got some amazingly talented volunteers working here behind the scenes at Flash Fiction Online, and we’d like to take this opportunity to share with you some of their accomplishments from these past few months, as well as some projects to keep an eye out for!

If you like what we publish at FFO, chances are that some of these might be up your alley as well!

Wendy Nikel, Editor-in-Chief

STORY COLLECTION

STORY COLLECTION

“Impossible Realms: 12 Fantasy Short Stories” is a new short story collection by Wendy Nikel, now available in ebook and paperback, featuring 12 short secondary-world fantasy short stories.
STORY COLLECTION

STORY COLLECTION

“Perilous Stars: 12 Science Fiction Short Stories” is a NEW short story collection by Wendy Nikel, now available for pre-order, featuring 12 space-based science fiction short stories.
SHORT STORY

SHORT STORY

“Those We See at the Twilight Bridge” is a NEW short story by Wendy Nikel, available in Fireside Fiction Issue 89, March 2021
SHORT STORY

SHORT STORY

“Blood and Clockwork” is a NEW short story by Wendy Nikel, available in CLOCKWORK, CURSES, AND COAL from World Weaver Press, March 2021
SHORT STORY

SHORT STORY

“My Dreams Have Been Weird Since the Magpies Arrived” is a NEW short story by Wendy Nikel, available to read FREE online at Nature: Futures, March 2021
SHORT STORY

SHORT STORY

“Economic Principles of the Zombie Apocalypse” is a NEW short story by Wendy Nikel, available to read FREE online at Daily Science Fiction, March 2021
SHORT STORY

SHORT STORY

“Whale Fall” is a NEW short story by Wendy Nikel, available in PHILOSOPHY THROUGH SCIENCE FICTION STORIES from Bloomsbury, January 2021
WRITING PANEL

WRITING PANEL

“Editing in the Speculative Fiction Magazine Industry” will take place Friday, April 16 • 23:00 – 23:50 online with Angelica Fyfe, Wendy Nikel, Julia Rios, Zelda Knight, and Aimee Ogden

Samantha L. Strong, Senior Editor / Reprint Editor

STORY COLLECTION

STORY COLLECTION

“Floating in Blue” is a NEW science fiction and fantasy short story collection now available from Samantha L. Strong, which includes two previously unpublished stories

Charlie Aylett, Junior Editor

SHORT STORY

SHORT STORY

A NEW flash fiction from Charlie Aylett will be coming soon in Between These Shores Special Pandemic issue, which is now available for preorder!
ONLINE CLASSES

ONLINE CLASSES

Charlie spent much of the COVID period adapting material from her live writing classes and her Skillshare channel to create her own online learning area. The course and classroom are now ready and she offers personal guidance with a much more tailored approach, while in a COVID-safe environment.
MIDDLE GRADE NOVEL

MIDDLE GRADE NOVEL

THE LIGHTNING CATCHER by Clare Weze, is a middle grade novel on which Charlie advised in its draft stages. Now available for pre-order!

Tobias Backman, Junior Editor

SHORT STORY

SHORT STORY

“The Monsters Which Must Be Slain To Save The Kingdom And Set Things Right” is a NEW short story by Tobias Backman, available to read FREE at Daily Science Fiction, January 2021

Lynne Sargent, First Reader

SHORT STORY

SHORT STORY

“Decoherence is a Lady” is a NEW short story by Lynne Sargent, available to read FREE at Daily Science Fiction, January 2021
POETRY

POETRY

“The Risk of Embarking” is a NEW poem by Lynne Sargent, available at The Future Fire, January 2021
POETRY

POETRY

“A Courtship of Flame” and “Another, Enough” are NEW poems by Lynne Sargent, available in Polar Starlight, Issue #1, March 2021
READING SERIES

READING SERIES

Lynne will be taking part in the Ephemera SFF Reading Series aerial silks routine on April 21st @ 7pm EDT

AJ CUNDER, FIRST READER

SHORT STORY

SHORT STORY

A NEW short story by AJ Cunder, is coming soon in THE MODERN DEITY’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING HUMANITY from Zombies Need Brains, which is now available for preorder!

Aaron Grierson, First Reader

SHORT STORY

SHORT STORY

“Little Garden Gnomes” is a NEW short story by Aaron Grierson, now available in Marisa’s Recurring Nightmare anthology by the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers

Roni Stinger, First Reader

INTERVIEW

INTERVIEW

Roni Stringer was interviewed by The Storied Imaginarium about a recently published story, “Wolf’s Bane” (Through Other Eyes anthology)
INTERVIEW

INTERVIEW

Roni Stringer was interviewed by The Storied Imaginarium about a recently published poem, “Witch’s Garden” (Hypnos Magazine)