It’s an exciting time to be a writer, and overwhelming. Just as Buffalo Bill Cody once understood that audiences wanted authenticity and talent in a Wild West Show, Carrot Ranch realizes that readers want real voices and engaging stories.
You will find that among the Carrot Ranch Congress of Rough Writers. The following writers form the core of Carrot Ranch’s literary community and mount words on the page like Cody’s Cossacks once mounted horses in strange feats and fearless equitation.
Discover fresh, talented and up-and-coming voices in literature from around the world.
Join in each week with Carrot Ranch’s Flash Fiction Challenge and ride with the Rough Writers. You can write with us or read our latest feats of brevity.
Here’s a roundup of flash fiction from 2014 (with thanks to Rough Writer, Larry La Forge, for roping this outstanding collection of stories):
Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Roundup
Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Roundup #2
Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Roundup #3
Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Roundup #4
Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Roundup #5 (NEW!)
We are the Rough Writers:
Georgia Bell, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sacha Black, England, UK
Sarah Brentyn, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Norah Colvin, Brisbane, Qld, AU
Pat Cummings, Santa Rosa, California, USA
Pete Fanning, Virginia, USA
Luccia Gray, Spain
Anne Goodwin, England, UK
Urszula Humienik, Poland
Ruchira Khanna, California, USA
Larry LaForge, Clemson, South Carolina, USA
Jeanne Belisle Lombardo, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Geoff Le Pard, Dulwich South London, UK
Sherri Matthews, Somerset, UK
Allison Mills, Houghton, Michigan, USA
Paula Moyer, Lauderdale, Minnesota, USA
Ellen Mulholland, California, USA
Rebecca Patajac, Melbourne, Vic, AU
Tally Pendragon, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
Amber Prince, North Texas, USA
Ann Rauvola, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Lisa Reiter, North Yorkshire, UK
Roger Shipp, Virginia, USA
Sarah Unsicker, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Irene Waters, Noosaville, Qld, AU
Susan Zutautas, Orillia, Ontario, Canada
Looks cool, Charli.
Sharing it across🙂
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It’s good to see names I am getting to know on this list. Feels like being a part of something..x
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Oh, I’m so glad it has that sense! We have a friendly literary community and anyone is welcome to write with us. It’s under construction as I have a few details to work out. Keep writing writing with us and you can be a “Rough Writer” too! Not much to it…just hang out when you can.🙂
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Thanks Charli.. x
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Gorgeous! Love the new look here. That “leather” patch is fantastic. And the map… Love it!
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Thanks, Sarah! I love the leather and the copper map, too!
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The map is great.
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It has a steampunk feel to it and I like the running horses.
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I liked the horses. A great touch. I don’t expect you to do it but I can see a horse for each Rough writer placed where they come from – still running.
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That was the original idea, but a complicated project for my cartographer who finished her masters, moved, got sick and got hired! We simplified it…for now. Always room to grow!
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Looks wonderful, Charli. I like your vision and am honoured to be a part of it. The map is gorgeous. Georgia’s bio is great too! I’m proud to have been in from the very beginning.🙂
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Hi Norah! You must have just peeked in! I finally figured out how to arrange all the bios. At first, I thought I’d long scroll them under the map and link from the list. But you can’t link on the same page in WP. This worked out much better! Each Rough Writer will have his or her own page nested under the Congress tab. I’m so grateful for your continued ride. Honored to have you here, Norah!🙂
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Wow! It looks fantastic!
Thanks for letting me know about linking on the same page in WP. It is something I was going to try. I had looked up how to do it but it required using http stuff and I needed a little more time to figure it out. I still might have a bit more of a look because there are times when it would be useful. I like the way each writer is going to have their own page though. It won’t be so crowded that way. I’ll say it again – you are amazing!🙂
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That would be useful to know. I don’t think I’m up to coding it right now, and turns out I prefer the alternative.
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It looks great, Charli! Thanks for wrangling together this community!
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Thanks for being a part! Still wrangling bio pages, but at least now I know what I’m doing! Some days I feel as though I rode out of the barn sitting on my horse backwards (technology does that to me).
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This looks amazing my Father was a Jockey and loved my writing so the rough riders title tickled me.😇
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