Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. Since joining the platform in January 2015, Darling has earned ...

Follow your heart and your dreams will come true is a cutesy Hallmark sentiment. Follow your heart and your dreams will probably come crashing into a heap around you is the more realistic version, one ...

In a Current Comment item in the America issue of March 2, 2008, the editors commented on “microfiction,” the venerable subgenre of fiction that forsakes the traditional short story length, usually ...

BALTIMORE — I’m at the front door of artist Joseph Young’s house, in the middle of a lovely block in the lovely neighborhood of Hampden. It’s a perfect October day. Instead of a welcome mat, I just ...

Microfiction written on a chalkboard on the kitchen cabinets of writer Joseph Young's "MicroFiction Rowhouse" in Hampden, Maryland. Young, in background seated next to a table, has written his ...

Instituto Cervantes de Manila, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines and the University of the Philippines Diliman, will present “Lo bueno, si breve,” a workshop on ...