Flash Fiction and Three-Dimensional Story Worlds (with Shelley Roche-Jacques)

Shelley Roche-Jacques is a poet, flash fiction writer and Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University (UK). In this episode, Shelley will be our guide into the world of Flash Fiction. How can a writer mobilise the story world and create three-dimensional stories when all they have at their disposal is a only few hundred words? Listen and find out!Works cited:Shelley Roche-Jacques, ‘Flash fiction as a distinct literary form: some thoughts on time, space, and context’, in New Writing 21:2 (2024), pp. 171-89.Kim Chinquee, 'Flash fiction, prose poetry and men jumping out of windows: searching for plot and finding definitions', in The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction, ed. by Tara L. Masih (Rose Metal Press, 2009), pp. 111-12.Tania Hersham, ‘Flash Fiction 2014 Judge’s Report’. The Birdport Prize, https://bridportprize.org.uk/.Ron Wallace, ‘Ron Wallace – Writers Try Short-Shorts', University of Wisconsin – English Department. https://dept.english.wisc.edu/wallace/?page_id=63. Accessed 26/10/2025. Frank O’Connor, The Lonely Voice: A Study of the Short Story (Melville House, 2011).Tony Williams, ‘Flash Fiction’, in The Handbook of Creative Writing, ed. by Steven Earnshaw (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), pp. 315-23. Amelia Gray, The Swan as Metaphor for Love, in Joyland (December 2012), https://joylandpublishing.com/uncategorized/swan-metaphor-love/. Accessed 26/10/2025. Tony Williams, ‘Gareth’, in All the Banans I’ve Never Eaten (Salt, 2012).Tania Hersham (editor), Fuel: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Flash Fictions Raising Funds to Fight Fuel Poverty (Tania Hersham Books, 2025). Robert Shapard and James Thomas (editors), Sudden Fiction (Gibbs M. Smith, 1986). James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro (editors), New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (Norton, 2018). Websites:SmokeLong Quarterly: https://www.smokelong.com. Wigleaf: https://wigleaf.com. Bath Flash Fiction Award Archive, https://www.bathflashfictionaward.com/tag/flash-fiction/. Bath Flash Fiction Award Anthologies, https://www.bathflashfictionaward.com/tag/flash-fiction-anthologies/.Podcast intro and outro credits: Shield, Leroy, Taylor Holmes, and Robert W Service. The shooting of Dan McGrew. 1923. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.

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