A Gathering of the Flashy and Flash-Curious

The first ever FBomb National Flash Fiction Festival! No panels! No workshops! Just the biggest Fbomb flash fiction reading ever and YOU are invited. Our features and special guest are traveling from East and West Coasts to converge for one night of flash fiction in Denver! With music by Nick Busheff!

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Host Nancy Stohlman! 

Nancy Stohlman’s books include the flash fiction collection The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories, the novels The Monster Opera and Searching for Suzi: a flash novel, and four anthologies including Fast Forward: The Mix Tape, which was a finalist for a 2011 Colorado Book Award. When she is not writing she is the lead singer of the lounge metal band Kinky Mink. Find out more about her at http://www.nancystohlman.com

Featuring Paul Beckman!  Paul Beckman collects memories and punchboards. Some publishing credits: Pank, Connotation Press, Journal of Microliterature, Litro, Boston Literary Magazine, The Connecticut Review & other fine magazines online and in print. He’s had three collections and a novella published. His latest flash story collection, Peek from Big Table Press, came out in February 2015 weighing in at 65 stories and 117 pages. It can be purchases from his published story website http://www.paulbeckmanstories.com or Amazon.

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Featuring Robert Vaughan! Robert Vaughan has work published in over 500 online and print magazines.  He’s the author of three collections of poetry: Microtones (Cervena Barva Press, 2012); Diptychs + Triptychs + Lipsticks + Dipshits (Deadly Chaps Press, 2013); and Addicts & Basements (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2014). He also edited Flash Fiction Fridays (2011), selected writings from his two year radio show on WUWM. He’s currently senior editor at JMWW and Lost in Thought magazines, and is on the Advisory Board of Literary Orphans. His awards include Micro-Fiction (2012), and Gertrude Stein Awards (2013, 2014). He is an AWP Panelist and teaches workshops in various topics like poetry, hybrid writing, and playwriting. He leads roundtables at Red Oak Writing in Milwaukee, WI.

Featuring Karen Stefano! Karen Stefano is the author of the collection, The Secret Games of Words, published by 1GlimpsePress (2015). She is Fiction Editor for Connotation Press and her stories have appeared in The South Carolina Review, Tampa Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, Epiphany, Lost in Thought, Metazen, Green Mountains Review, Gloom Cupboard, and elsewhere. Her story, “Seeing,” was nominated for the XXXVII Pushcart Prize.

    Featuring Meg Tuite! Meg Tuite is the author of two short story collections, Bound By Blue (2013) Sententia Books and Domestic Apparition (2011) San Francisco Bay Press, three chapbooks and a poetic prose/poetry chap w/ David Tomaloff coming out in 2015. She won the Twin Antlers Collaborative Poetry award from Artistically Declined Press for her poetry collection, Bare Bulbs Swinging (2014) written with Heather Fowler and Michelle Reale. She teaches at the Santa Fe Community College, is fiction editor for Santa Fe Literary Review, a featured column at Connotation Press and a column at JMWW. She lives in Santa Fe with her husband and menagerie of pets. Her blog: http://megtuite.com

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