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Kaye Linden

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Sydney, Australia

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Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

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Kaye is an Australian living in the USA. She is an award winning writer with an MFA in fiction and a second MFA pending in poetry and mixed genres. She is the past and current 2017 poetry and flash stories editor for the Bacopa Literary Review, short fiction adult education teacher at Santa Fe College, and works as medical editor for “Present e-learning lecture reviews.”

Kaye has numerous books published, her latest: 35 tips for Writing a Brilliant Flash Story" available on Amazon.

Kaye was nominated in 2011 for a Pushcart prize for one of Ma’s tales. Her short stories, prose and haiku have been published in multiple journals, too numerous to list, available upon request. Visit Kaye at http://www.kayelinden.com and sign up to follow her bl ...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 128 ratings · 36 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	35 Tips for Writing a Brilliant Flash Story: a manual for writing flash fiction and nonfiction (35 Tips series) 4.13 avg rating — 70 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from Ma's Watering-Hole 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prasanga (In the Underground World #1) 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ten Thousand Miles from Home 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	35 Tips for Writing Powerful Prose Poems 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PRASANGA: In the Underground World - Book One it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ten Thousand Miles from Home: a tiny flash nonfiction collection 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales from Ma's Watering-Hole: dedicated to refugees and immigrants 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Writing on the Head of a Pin

Bacopa Literary Review Editors’ Blog

Next Contest: March 18 – May 17, 2019: $300 Prize and Honorable Mention in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, and Haiku (no submission fee this year).

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Writing on the Head of a Pin

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The language of haiku demands precision and restraint. Each word must count, each word must offer me

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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

by Robert Hughes

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A Walking Tour of Jacksonville, Florida (Look Up, America! Series)

by Doug Gelbert

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The Light Beyond

by Raymond A. Moody Jr.

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“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
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