{"id":8145,"date":"2019-05-02T08:41:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T14:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=8145"},"modified":"2019-05-02T08:41:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T14:41:25","slug":"marie-gethins-interviews-me-at-the-new-irish-flash-journal-splonk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=8145","title":{"rendered":"Marie Gethins Interviews Me at the New Irish Flash Journal, Splonk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/author-photo-2-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/author-photo-2-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/author-photo-2.jpg 496w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Lovely Marie Gethins asked me <a href=\"http:\/\/splonk.ie\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/the-splonk-five-interview-with-kathy-fish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some great questions<\/a> about all things flash in the debut issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/splonk.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Splonk: The Irish for Flash.<\/a> Here&#8217;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In terms of construction\/technique, how is flash fiction different, in your view, from other genres \u2013 in particular poetry (including prose poems) and the short story?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Flash lends itself particularly well to fluidity of form. While poetry and prose poetry <em>can<\/em>\u00a0give the suggestion of a story or plot, flash\u00a0<em>must<\/em> have it. So any technique must allow room for the sense of a story. I say \u201csense\u201d of a story because I don\u2019t think flash need follow the traditional constraints of plot (the Freytag Triangle, for example), but there must be movement or meaningful change.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the whole interview <a href=\"http:\/\/splonk.ie\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/the-splonk-five-interview-with-kathy-fish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated to publishing flash fiction and micro and founded by the wonderful writer, Nuala O&#8217;Connor, <a href=\"http:\/\/splonk.ie\/index.php\/splonk-issue-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Splonk&#8217;s first issue<\/a> features stories by Melissa Goode, Tania Hershman, Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar, Sharon Telfer, Sarah Freligh, Nick Black, Clio Velentza, Alex Reece Abbott, and more. Splonk has a great <a href=\"http:\/\/splonk.ie\/index.php\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">editorial team<\/a> (Marie is a co-editor and interviews manager) and includes gorgeous artwork by Janice Leagra. Check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovely Marie Gethins asked me some great questions about all things flash in the debut issue of Splonk: The Irish for Flash. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: In terms of construction\/technique, how is flash fiction different, in your view, from other genres \u2013 in particular poetry (including prose poems) and the short story? &#8220;Flash lends itself particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[37,199,347,442,467,589,627,655,677,731,746,880,881,901,934,978],"class_list":["post-8145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","tag-alex-reece-abbott","tag-clio-velentza","tag-flash-fiction","tag-interviews-2","tag-janice-leagra","tag-literary-journals","tag-marie-gethins","tag-melissa-goode","tag-microfiction","tag-nick-black","tag-nuala-oconnor","tag-sara-siddiqui-chansarkar","tag-sarah-freligh","tag-sharon-telfer","tag-splonk-the-irish-for-flash","tag-tania-hershman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}