Six Questions For… is an interesting site: an ever-growing compilation of interviews with editors of flash fiction publications. Each interview is composed of exactly—wait for it—six questions.

Today’s six questions are with me. About Nanoism. You can read them here.

My flash piece “Memories of Life” was originally published in the now defunct BURST magazine back in 2009. Such is the circle of internet literary magazine life.

Not only has it been republished, courtesy of The Story Shack, but it’s been upgraded with a piece of artwork by Hong Rui Choo that was inspired by the story. You can find them both here.

The Story Shack is I think essentially unique in that their daily-published stories all have commissioned artwork published alongside. And not just any art—art that was crafted specifically for and because of the writing. Seeing the art was a such a thrill, and the site is full of some really amazing companion pieces. I think Rui did an awesome job with it.

I don’t write as much these days as I’d like. And until I began writing some non-fiction pieces about my experiences in medicine last year, I probably hadn’t written a personal narrative in over three years. The process is somewhat disquieting. Accuracy and authenticity and honesty and feeling can be shifting features on a zero-sum scale.

One of these pieces is called “Florence,” and it appears today in Pulse—voices from the heart of medicine, a site dedicated to creative nonfiction and poetry about health care. I get their stories in my email every week, and I actually read them, unlike the way I mean to read other stories that arrive in my mailbox but do not.

You can read it here.

Robert Swartwood, creator of Hint Fiction and man after my own heart, and I discuss twitter-fiction on his podcast. Good times are had by all.

Those with an interest in very very very short stories will enjoy some interesting pearls and insights into the form. And other stuff.

Amidst graduation and moving across the state, I let the publication of my very short story “Did You Hear About Lauren?” in Microliterature pass me by. But it’s out, and I still like it, and you should go read it now.

I have another very short story in thickjam. It’s called The Cobblestones Will See Me Grow.

I have a new (actually old) story up in the very new site thickjam (specializing in the shorts that are “substantial, sticky and hard to rub off”). It’s called Turkey on Wheat. Yes, it’s a play on Bukowski’s Ham on Rye. I like a good Jewish rye, but I don’t eat ham.

Last month Michael Rudin (author of nano #147) published his piece “From Hemingway to Twitterature: The Short and Shorter of It” in the Journal of Electronic Publishing. It’s a thoughtful academic look at the different ways we’re writing (short and cheap) in the digital age that also includes a couple selections from the Nanoism archives and a quote from yours truly.

Second, the 7×20 twitter anthology 140 And Counting is now currently available (also featuring yours truly) for the Amazon Kindle.

And I never thought I would say this, but Nanoism’s first wholly independent native-language international chapter is open! In Swedish! Check out Nanoismer, and click over here for a little bit of background.

Finally, Nanoism’s 2011 contest is now open until the end of New Year’s day 2012. For those of you keeping track at home, the format is similar to last year with both free entries, raffle prizes, and more chances to win if you donate to charity.

Necessary Fiction has a neat premise for their rotating monthly Writer-in-Residence series. For January, it’s been “First Footing,” where each story begins with the last sentence of another story by another author. For example, Marcelle Heath (who incidentally wrote several of my favorite pieces in Nanoism) used nano #249 by Martha Williams as the basis for her story “Nothing Good Can Come of This.”

My own contribution is another piece arising from my continuing preoccupation with short fiction based on Craigslist postings: “+1 for a circle of friends?“