Literature

You’ve likely read short stories before, and there’s a good chance that you’ve also heard of the even shorter form of flash fiction. But what about microfiction? This type of creative writing isn’t discussed very often, but it can be a fun fiction form to both read and write. So, read on to find out …

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In 2001, German academic and writer W. G. Sebald talked to Christopher Bigsby in a discussion that was recorded and is held as part of an audio-visual collection in the British Archive for Contemporary Writing.  Having been born in 1944, Sebald recognised that he “grew up in a peripheral place where you scarcely noticed that …

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