by Lindsey Brackett @lindsbrac When I first started teaching at writers’ conferences, I represented Splickety Publishing Group, a company entirely devoted to the art of flash fiction. But before I began attending conferences, I didn’t even know flash fiction existed. Once I discovered it, though, working in this form of…

by Lindsey Brackett @lindsbrac Terry Kay told me recently, at a writers’ workshop in the Sautee Valley, that I am too young to write true southern fiction. He’s right, of course. I didn’t live through the civil rights movement, and while I remember when we got our first VCR, I don’t…

By Lindsey Brackett, @LindsBrac   Four years ago I attended my first ever writer's conference. Truthfully, I'd never even realized these existed. A place filled with people who thought like me and wanted to talk about imaginary characters as if they were real and used jargon like "action tag" and…

by Lindsey Brackett, @LindsBrac   Probably my most Facebook engagement (post-algorithms) in February came from asking how we could best watch the Olympics without a regular cable provider. Usually, I don’t miss television. Netflix, Prime, and Redbox get it done. But every two years I plan to buy an antenna…

By Lindsey Brackett, @lindsbrac   “Listen,” I told a group of writers recently. “You’ve got to be on top of what’s happening in the market because if you aren’t, you’ll pitch a dystopian vampire novel, and let’s face it—vampires are kinda dead.” Apparently I’m hilarious and should add stand up…

By Lindsey Brackett, @lindsbrac   Listen, if you’re southern born and bred, or simply landed here by happy chance, don’t even pretend you don’t care about football. You may not give a flip about the sport itself—but the mere drama of Friday nights and Saturday afternoons down South? Any southern…