WORKSHOPS

Come learn about the magical world of writing flash fiction, genre style!

Flash-length writing in multiple genres is experiencing a surge in online and physical magazines taking shorter work—including publications solely focused on speculative writing such as science fiction, fantasy, dystopian, time travel, horror, and more. These shorter stories succeed in transporting readers out of our daily lives to entirely imagined spaces. With genre writing, these readers may explore new worlds made up of new technology, magic, an entirely different time, or even fall down holes of horror, all in mere minutes.

Genre publication requires the fine-tuned skills of any fiction writing and takes on the special task of making the purely illusory and conjured ideas of an author’s imagination feel tangible and true. These other worlds make anything seem possible.

This online, asynchronous flash writing workshop is built for writers at any point in their journey (beginner through advanced) who want to focus on creating a few short pieces that experience revision toward submission. Some authors will want to take their short ideas and expand them into longer works outside of the scope of this class.

Across the two weeks of this course, you will get a detailed overview of the flash genre and opportunities to write and share your flash fiction. We’ll read and analyze representative stories as inspiration for our own writing. Everyone will read and critique each other’s work. The first week is entirely generative. The second week, our focus shifts to revising for submission. You will work on two of your pieces, picking one that you will submit to the publication of your choice at the end of the class. We will review provided resources (journals and ways to find journals) and crowdsource ideas for places looking to publish the type of work you generate. We will end the course by finding a completely optional date to meet up for an online reading of the work you are intending to submit.

Get ready to get your dreams down on the page!