Sionnain Buckley reads "Stranger, Brother, Stranger" with Guest Nancy Au

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. Links Website: https://sionnainbuckley.com/ 3 Elements Review http://3elementsreview.com/ Twitter: @3ElementsReview Insta: @3elementsreview The Journal at Ohio State https://thejournalmag.org/ Twitter: @OSUtheJOURNAL 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. Links Nancy’s Website: https://www.peascarrots.com/ The Escapery: https://www.theescapery.org/ Nancy’s book: Spider Love Song and Other Stories available from Acre Books at http://www.acre-books.com/books/spider-love-song-and-other-stories Nancy’s Inspiration for Flash 405 - Empathy Exams, by Leslie Jamison from Gray Wolf Press.  Available at: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/empathy-exams Thank you to Alexander Blu for intro and outro music, and the generous donations from our supporters that allow us to pay our authors.  Exposition Review is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas. Hosted by Laura Rensing

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