#amWriting: "The Problem Now Is How to Stand Out From All the White Noise"

[Letizia]

The Author

Jason Fischer lives near Adelaide, South Australia, with his wife and son. He tries to unleash the weird every time he gets behind the keyboard, and his fiction has been described by reviewers as “strikingly original” and “weirdly imaginative”, while noted for containing “greasier genre elements”.

He is the author of over thirty short stories, with his first collection appearing soon from Ticonderoga Publications. His “After The World” series of zombie-apocalypse novellas are available from Black House Comics, and his fantasy novel “Tusk” is being serialised in Terra Magazine.

The Interview

Why do you choose to write short stories? What does attract you in this format?

I initially moved into short story writing as a way of improving my craft, and stayed for the joy of writing. I've had a lot of fun in the past few years, contributing to all sorts of themed anthologies and magazines, made friends and had a lot of laughs. I was lucky enough to win the Writers of the Future short story contest a couple of years ago, where I got to fly to America and complete a workshop with authors Tim Powers and KD Wentworth. In all honesty I'm starting to move away from short story writing, but I don't regret a moment of it. I still dabble in the form from time to time, and it's the sheer joy of creating disposable worlds and scenarios that keeps things interesting.

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Jason's Reading Suggestions

By Bizarre Hands
Tender Morsels
A Game of Thrones