Writing Genre Flash Fiction the Minimalist Way: A Self Study Book
In 1978, Michael A. Kechula received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the IBM Corporation for his innovative approach in developing online, self-study training courses for employees of IBM and Fortune 500 companies.  Two of his IBM-published technical reports on training methods were selected by the US Department of Education for inclusion on their ERIC system (Educational Resources Information Center), the world’s largest digital library of education literature.  In 1992, he was named IBM’s premier developer of self-study books and self-study online courses in the Western United States.       Since switching to fiction in 2002, over 450 of his flash fiction stories have been published by 134 magazines and 41 anthologies in Australia, Canada, England, India, Scotland, and United States.  He’s won 1st prize in 12 writing contests and 2nd prize in 8 others.  He’s won Editor’s  Choice awards 4 times.  His flash fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart prize.   He’s taught dozens of novelists and short story writers how to write flash fiction and micro-fiction.  Kechula has been Flash Fiction Submissions Editor for 5 online and print magazines and is the moderator of FlashXer, a Yahoo writing site that focuses on developing flash and micro-fiction for publication.