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Blending Flash Fiction & Art

Interview with Carol Radsprecher

Carol Radsprecher gave NUNUM Poulpe which became the cover for our 2020 anthology and was absolutely, hands-down the best way for us to wrap up our second year of blending.  We were lucky enough to get a chance to sit down with Carol a few weeks ago, and I'm sure you can guess the first question we had for her, the answer on the other hand might be a touch of a surprise.

Poulpe by Carol Radsprecher

JR Walsh's Interview with NUNUM

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Blending Flash Fiction & Art

'Your Favorite Actor' by  JR Walsh brought a touch of the on point, tangental ramble to NUNUM's Winter 2019 and made us instantly feel like we'd gone classic Hollywood in the process. We were lucky enough to get a chance to Q & A with JR recently, and for those of you who've been here before you already know how it started.  JR, thank you for this, and for enduring my stock opening but I have to ask: what was the first book you remembering reading by yourself?

Chebyshev Spectral Overcast by Ryota Matsumoto

NUNUM - Blending Flash Fiction & Art

Interview with ​Samuel Schwindt

Fresnel Leather Pleasure by Samuel Schwindt

Samuel, thank you for this. NUNUM is a literary journal, so,  we're always interested in what people are reading, for curiousity's sake, what was the first book you remember picking and reading by yourself? First book picked and read on my own? Yikes, that was long ago. There were so many books back then, the Giver, John Green books, and this series about a vampire (not Twilight) that I just devoured. Vampires, a childhood staple. What about more recently, What was the last book you read that made you say damn that was a good book?​

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Interview with Ryota Matsumoto

Chebyshev Spectral Overcast by Ryota Matsumoto

Ryota Matsumoto gave us a cover for the Winter 2019 issue that made all of us here double take, because I mean, just look at it, no better way to express the NUNUM blending asethetic. Ryota also let us use his work for Jeff Combs's piece An Afternoon by the Ocean to open up the issue and the perfection just kept on rolling. Luckily we were able to grab Ryota and sit down with him for a chat the other day.  Ryota thank you for this, there is a question we ask everyone.

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A NUNUM review of Bob Thurber's In Fifty Words

Bob Thurber, author of the critically acclaimed novel Paperboy, is back with a new collection of micro-fiction - In Fifty Words. Bob’s latest gift to the flash fiction world and its eighty stories will put a magnet on your compass and whirlpool you through a master’s course of what exactly this briefest of literary forms can do with a subtle boldness that very few writers can muster.

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Interview with J Ray Paradiso

J Ray Paradiso

​John Van Kirk's 'Apocalypse Now' accented J. Ray Paradiso's photography in a way that needed nothing more. Together these two artists blended together and gave the Fall 2019 issue a centre for everything else to orbit. Since its publication this piece has been nominated for this year's Best Microfiction Award.

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Interview with Tianyi Zhang

Tianyi Zhang gave NUNUM some Zelffie magic for the Fall 2019 issue and once we blended it up with Amanda Conner's story 'The Time Has Come', well we had another Pushcart nomination on our hands. Lately we were lucky enough to get in a few questions for our newest favourite artist and as usual we learned so much more than expected.

Tianyi Zhang

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Interview with Ann Calandro

Ann Calandro

Flash Fiction  Ann Calandro’s piece ‘The Treasure’ became the cover of NUNUM’s Fall 2019 issue and nothing could have summed up what was going on in the issue better … a treasure indeed. We were lucky enough to get a few minutes of Ann’s time and just like the cover for the issue, it was a treasure. Ann thank you for this, have questions that we ask everyone so

NUNUM - Blending Flash Fiction & Art

Interview with John Van Kirk

​ John Van Kirk's 'Apocalypse Now' accented J. Ray Paradiso's photography in a way that needed nothing more. Together these two artists blended together and gave the Fall 2019 issue a centre for everything else to orbit. Since its publication this piece has been nominated for this year's Best Microfiction Award.

John Van Kirk

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Interview with Eros Livieratos

Eros Livieratos

Said last week that Mike Callaghan's work fit seamlessly with the words of Eros Livieratos and gave NUNUM's Fall 2019 Issue an opening slice of perfection with 'Suburbs' so here it only feels right to say that Eros's words slipped right into the imagery of Mike's work and banged out an amazing opening for the Fall 2019 issue.