Sionnain Buckley reads her nonfiction piece, “Stranger, Brother, Stranger,” which won first place in our “Underneath the Words” themed Flash 405 contest. We’re joined by Nancy Au who leads the interview in a beautiful conversation about craft, resilience, and flash sommeliers.
Read along at: http://expositionreview.com/flash-405/stranger-brother-stranger
About the Reader:
Sionnain Buckley is a writer, editor, and visual artist. Her work has appeared in Hobart, Winter Tangerine, Wigleaf, Strange Horizons, Autostraddle, and others. Her flash has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction, and won first place in Exposition Review's Flash 405 contest. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she is an MFA candidate in Fiction at The Ohio State University. More of her work can be found at sionnainbuckley.com.
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About Guest Judge Nancy Au
Nancy Au’s essays, flash and short stories appear in Redivider, Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Catapult, Lunch Ticket, SmokeLong Quarterly, among many others. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University where she teaches creative writing. She also teaches creative writing (to biology majors!) at California State University Stanislaus, and is co-founder of The Escapery (www.TheEscapery.org). Her flash fiction is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology, and her writing was named Best Short Fiction of 2018 by Entropy. She won The Vestal Review‘s 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize, as well as Redivider‘s 2018 Blurred Genre Contest. Her debut full-length collection, Spider Love Song & Other Stories, is forthcoming from Acre Books (University of Cincinnati) in September 2019. www.peascarrots.com.
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