In my younger years, I wrote tons of poetry. These days, the short form I explore is typically labeled ‘flash fiction.’ Occasionally, these flashes are so poetic or experimental in form that I either submit them as poetry or let the publisher label it however they want. As poetry, they’re prose poems at best. Unmetered, unrhymed. And though they tell or hint at a story, I don’t mind them being read as poetry. I love poetry and am always happy to contribute something poetic to the world.

I’d say, for us novelists, that all the positives of writing and publishing poetry you listed in this great article can also apply to flash fiction. Thank you.