Meg Pokrass and Jeff Friedman

Meg Pokrass’ flash fiction has been widely published and anthologized, most recently in two Norton Anthologies of flash fiction, and in many hundreds of literary journals and international anthologies of flash. Her seventh collection of flash fiction, Spinning to Mars, won the Blue Light Book Award in 2020. Recent writing has appeared in Washington Square Review, Electric Literature, Tupelo Quarterly, Waxwing, Five Points, American Journal of Poetry, Plume Poetry, Jellyfish Review, Wigleaf and Monkeybicycle. Meg serves as Co-Founder of San Francisco’s Flash Fiction Collective Reading Series, Festival Curator for Flash Fiction Festival U.K, Founding Editor of New Flash Fiction Review, and Founding Co-Editor of the Best Microfiction anthology series. She resides in Northern England. Jeff Friedman’s eighth book, The Marksman, was published in November 2020 by Carnegie Mellon University Press. His poems, mini stories and translations have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, New England Review, Poetry International, Hotel Amerika, Cast-Iron Aeroplanes that Can Actually Fly: Commentaries from 80 American Poets on their Prose Poetry, Flash Fiction Funny, Flash Nonfiction Funny, Fiction International, The New Republic, and numerous other literary magazines and anthologies.