Category: flash fictioin

Friday Five: Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar

‘Modify your story, make it real, make it whole, but don’t give up if you believe in the tale you are trying to tell.’

Portrait photo of writer Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar

The author of two books and numerous flash fiction and micro fiction stories, Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar is an Indian American writer based in Columbus, Ohio. Her flash fiction and microfiction, including her debut collection Morsels of Purple, explore the nuances of womanhood across cultural and geographic boundaries. Her novel Skin Over Milk tells the story of three girls “who bear the weight of being unwanted daughters in 1990s India.” Sara’s writings have appeared in several print and online literary journals, including Ghost Parachute, SmokeLong Quarterly, Reflex Press, and Flash Fiction Online, and have earned nominations for Pushcart and Best of the Net awards. She also is a submissions editor at SmokeLong Quarterly.

In addition to her writing, Sara is a mother, wife, and IT leader who holds an electronics engineer degree and an MBA. Read on to learn how she balances the many facets of her life to consistently create wonderful stories.

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Friday Five: poet and writer Chrissy Stegman

‘There’s something about the way stories were told around me growing up that shaped my voice’

Today’s featured Friday Five writer is Chrissy Stegman, a poet and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. Her work appears in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Jake, UCity Review, Okay Donkey, Gone Lawn, Gargoyle Magazine, Stone Circle Review, Fictive Dream, Inkfish, 5 Minutes Mag, and BULL. She is the author of the chapbook Somewhere, Someone Is Forgetting You (Alien Buddha Press), a two-time Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, and 2025 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Fellow.

Chrissy Stegman, writer and poet
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