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Sudden Stories in Comics & Prose

EDITORS: JOSH NEUFELD & SARI WILSON

WHAT IS FLASHED?

Flashed is a collection of flash fiction stories in comics and prose, pressed up against one another. In dialogue. In concert. In conversation. The stories are arranged in “triplets”—each grouping a kind of call-and-response among the respective contributors. So Flashed is more than an anthology; it’s a conversation—among some of today’s most exciting prose writers and cartoonists—and between the forms of prose and comics.

Flashed is the result of a two-year project in which we recruited writers and cartoonists to respond to one another’s work with original pieces of flash fiction. Why flash fiction? It’s the perfect form for a project that’s all about pushing boundaries and cross-fertilizing creative communities. (For the purposes of this project, we defined “flash fiction” as a maximum of 1,000 words and “flash comics” as no more than four pages.)

Contributors:

WRITERS CARTOONISTS

Steve Almond Jessica Abel

Matthew Baker Lynda Barry

Aimee Bender Gabrielle Bell

Jedediah Berry Nick Bertozzi

Rachel Cantor Brian Biggs

Junot Díaz Eli Bishop

Julia Fierro Box Brown

Sherrie Flick Jennifer Camper

Gina Frangello Dean Haspiel

V.V. Ganeshananthan Tom Kaczynski

Alan Gilbert David Lasky

Myla Goldberg Carol Lay

Ben Greenman Brendan Leach

Sheila Heti Jon Lewis

Michael Hinken Jason Little

Travis Holland Matt Madden

Joy Katz Ken Nash

Tara L. Masih John Porcellino

Anna North Joan Reilly

Pamela Painter Alexander Rothman

Anthony Tognazzini Andrea Tsurumi

Rob Walker d.w.

Kellie Wells

Zoe Zolbrod

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