Guest blogging at Phil Taylor’s today about FLASH NONFICTION! Thanks, Phil!
How did prose, namely flash nonfiction, end up in my new poetry chapbook Kin Types?
The easiest way to think of flash nonfiction is to think about a creative essay and imagine it tiny—50, 100, 500, 1000 words.
Once I started trying my hand at flash nonfiction, I saw that flash nonfiction forms are just poems opened up a bit—made a little larger, a little looser, but also relying heavily on sound, diction, images, just as poetry does.
The forms include, but are not limited to:
*lyric essay
*collage
*prose poems
*braided essay
*hermit crab essays that assume the form of something else
*based on photograph, artifact, document
*lists
I was able to work my subject in both poetry and flash nonfiction simultaneously because the two genres occupy the same sort of creative process.
Here is a flash nonfiction piece originally published on Toasted Cheese that found its way…
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Luanne Castle's Writer Site 
Very cool, Luanne…I write flash nonfiction all the time – I just didn’t know it!!
Well, there you go! I love flash nonfiction. It is so cool to use the brief poetry images but still be able to maintain a narrative without having to crop typical narrative devices out of the piece!
It sounds like a great read, especially with people’s time constraints, Luanne. I know it will be unique and memorable!
This was great that you helped Luanne out, Phil. 📣 ~Robin
Thanks so much, Robin!