IN A FLASH: A Gathering of Writers Expands into a New Literary Magazine

By Cynthia Allen and Leanne Rose Sowul

We jokingly call ourselves The Flashies: Leanne Rose Sowul, Cynthia (Cindy) Allen, Nina Lichtenstein, Kate Lewis and Casey Mulligan Walsh. In 2022, Leanne posted an open invitation on the Hippocampus Facebook page with the goal to form a writing group devoted to Flash Creative Nonfiction (CNF), one of the most popular forms of storytelling today. Soon, a handful of us were meeting monthly on Zoom to workshop each other’s writing and provide encouragem...