Compression: xtx

“Compression, is a big thing made smaller. I think if you soaked this story in water, it would expand to the size of a regular story. I think the reader would hold this story, as it exists now, in his hand wishing it could grow. ” &#8212 xtx

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Compression: Sara Lippmann

“What I love most about compression is how it forces you to look at structure and narrative and word choice; it demands selectivity and precision, with each word going the distance in terms of depth. (Likewise, every detail must be dual-purposed, revealing as much about the observed character as the observer.) Longer fiction, too, is most successful when it applies these principles of compression&#8212just to a bigger framework&#8212so that every scene, every word, every plot point feels essential.” &#8212 Sara Lippmann

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Compression: Kevin Simmonds

“For me, compression is how we return to the source. Whatever we experience and feel, we experience and feel first. The words follow. Writing poetry is writing &#8212backward &#8212to the beginning.”
&#8212 Kevin Simmonds

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Matter Press is now offering private flash fiction workshops and critiques of flash fiction collections here.

Upcoming:

03/23 • Kenneth Pobo
03/30 • Roberta Allen
04/06 • Avril Shakira Villar
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