Fast Forward: The Mix Tape Book Release
On September 24, 2010, Fast Forward Press will celebrate the Denver release of their third anthology of flash fiction, Fast Forward: The Mix Tape. A reading and release party is planned for Friday, September 24, 2010 at The Mercury Café in Denver from 7:00 PM-10:00 PM. The event will feature an assortment of readers from the new collection and a chance to purchase signed copies of the book.
Flash fiction is an emerging genre t...hat focuses on the compression of language. The stories Fast Forward: The Mix Tape range from under 100 words to 1,000 words. In The Mix Tape, masters of the genre such as Linh Dinh and Barbara Henning mingle with talented newcomers like Bryan Jansing and Teresa Milbrodt, as well as many international authors, such as Australian writer Félix Calvino. Fast Forward Press is dedicated to publishing flash literature in all forms, and their first project, Fast Forward: A Collection of Flash Fiction, was nominated for a 2009 Colorado Book Award.
Reviews of The Mix Tape:
“If you'd rather be rapt for a moment reading a flash than strung out for pages in a novel, FAST FORWARD is for you. It's the best flash fiction around — a book full of raptures.”
—Robert Shapard, editor of Flash Fiction Forward and Sudden Fiction series.
“The microstories range from high comedy to sensitive melodrama, to bizarre animals, funerals, Holocaust, teen pregnancies, religion — almost every imaginable topic is surveyed with astonishingly fine writing. Some of the stand out works include a brief look at an encounter with possible love angles that ends unexpectedly by Félix Calvino (‘In the Park’), several stories from Nancy Stohlman (‘Clowning for Jesus’ is bound to become a classic), whose flirtations with being naughty (‘Donny and Marie Osmond Barbie’) vie with those of Kona Morris (‘Confession #3,’ ‘Going Back’), or stories by Sophie Rosenblum (‘A Terrier's Limits’ et al). To have the luxury to savor such creativity within the covers of one book is a feast. Let's hope these ‘Fast Forwards’ continue! Editors K. Scott Forman, Kona Morris, and Nancy Stohlman have done a superb job in arresting the talents of many terrific writers.”
—Grady Harp, author of War Songs
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The Mercury Café event on September 24th will feature readings from the following writers:
Rob Geisen
Katharyn Grant
William Haywood Henderson
Diane Klammer
Kona Morris
Teresa Milbrodt
Jon Olsen
Sally Reno
Leah Rogin-Roper
Matt Siegel
Nancy Stohlman
Meg Tuite
plus special musical guest Nick Busheff!"
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