The idea for the forum emerged out of a local writers workshop in San Jose, CA, where members routinely read their work aloud. We noticed that although the South Bay has a wealth of poetry reading events, there was not a regular spoken word venue for fiction. If up to now, you’ve only written and published, but never read in public, we encourage you to join us. This platform allows writers to get an immediate response to their work. Join us and expose your fiction!
Tania Martin is co-founder and co-director of Flash Fiction Forum. She teaches art to middle school students and is currently writing her first novel. Tania writes about dreams in literature on Substack: https://taniamartin.substack.com. She has appeared in Peninsular Literary, Rolling Writer’s, San Jose’s Art Party, Well-Red, Weekend of Words Literary Festival, and is a regular reader at Flash Fiction Forum. Her work has been included in Play On Word’s performance series multiple times. She has been a contest judge for Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine. Her work has been published in Catamaran Literary Magazine, Caesura Magazine, Flash Flood’s Online Magazine, Sugar Mule Literary Magazine, and others. https://www.tania-martin.com
Lita A. Kurth is co-founder of San Jose’s Flash Fiction Forum. Lita, MFA- Rainier Writers Workshop (PLU) is the author of One Creative Writing Prompt a Day… (Callisto Press) and the forthcoming Writing Memoir in Flashes (Thinking Ink Press), who has received multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net nominations for fiction and creative nonfiction. She has taught creative writing at De Anza College, CreatorSchoolCA.com, and elsewhere to students aged 8 to 80, from jail residents to professionals, and has been an invited reader at many events, from Cinequest’s Poets n’ Writers to Poetry Center San Jose’s Well-Read series.
She is a winner, the Diana Woods Memorial Award from Lunchticket and a recipient of several fellowships to creative writing conferences. Sample publications: Cherry Tree, The Millions, Atticus Review, Lunchticket, Brain, Child, Main Street Rag, Wordrunner, Oyedrum, Chicago Literati, Rappahannock Review, NewVerseNews, ellipsis…Verbatim, Raven Chronicles, defenestration, Working Class Studies Journal.
Find her on LinkedIn and https://litakurth.substack.com/
L.D. Nguyen is co-director of Flash Fiction Forum. She’s an alum of Voices of Our Nations Arts, VONA. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Broken Pencil, Vine Leaves Literary, Curve, Zooscape, and others.
Poetry readings in future?
We do like narrative poems.
Testing. NIce site.