The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers by Dinty W Moore

The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers by Dinty W Moore

Unmatched in its focus on a concise and popular emerging genre, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction features 26 eminent writers, editors, and teachers offering expert analysis, focused exercises, and helpful examples of what make the brief essay form such a perfect medium for experimentation, insight, and illumination. With a comprehensive introduction to the genre and book by editor Dinty W. Moore, this guide is perfect for both the classroom and the individual writer's desk--an essential handbook for anyone interested in the scintillating and succinct flash nonfiction form. How many words does it take to tell a compelling true story? The answer might surprise you.

FEATURING ESSAYS FROM: Barrie Jean Borich, Jenny Boully, Norma Elia Cant , Rigoberto Gonz lez, Philip Graham, Carol Guess, Jeff Gundy, Robin Hemley, Barbara Hurd, Judith Kitchen, Eric LeMay, Dinah Lenney, Bret Lott, Patrick Madden, Lee Martin, Maggie McKnight, Brenda Miller, Kyle Minor, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Anne Panning, Lia Purpura, Peggy Shumaker, Sue William Silverman, Jennifer Sinor, Ira Sukrungruang, Nicole Walker

Dinty W. Moore is the author of The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life and Between Panic and Desire, a memoir that won the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Award in 2009. Moore's work has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Iron Horse Literary Review, and Crazyhorse. Moore, an Ohio University professor of nonfiction writing, resides in Athens, Ohio, where he grows heirloom tomatoes and edible dandelions.