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Flash Fiction: Alive in the Flicker
For a careful and close study, I offer this portable workshop. This workshop in book form should be of use to beginner and experienced writers alike. You can take it anywhere, read it anyplace, and you can work with it anytime. You will have access to most of the example stories mentioned through online links, and when you do the work, you will make all sorts of discoveries and will end up with several new stories and with many new ideas for your writing. This book can help you create stories you can’t yet even imagine creating.
Think about it. By making use of this portable workshop, by doing just one exercise or prompt per week, after a year’s time you will have created fifty-two new stories. That’s a lot of material to explore, polish, and send to markets. If you work on writing or rough drafting two pieces per week, you will double your creative output. All the while you’ll be exploring and learning more about important features of this complex manner of writing short fiction.
You can enter the study as deeply as you wish. You can learn more about flash fiction’s history, learn about various anthologies. Or you can take a simpler approach and focus mainly on the exercises and prompts.
This book-form workshop is the result of more than twenty years of close study and the result of eight years of online teaching (through Coffeehouse for Writers , Writing World , and f lashquake ). It is also the result of fifteen-plus years as administrator of the popular online Flash Fiction Workshop (which usually had a lengthy waiting list).
There is a lot to comprehend and discover about the complexity and diversity of flash literature. My hope for this book-form workshop is that it can help you understand even more of this compressed and often complicated type of writing. Through this portable workshop, I hope to share my extensive research and study of flash literature and increase your appreciation and skill in writing these short and fascinating stories.
In part, the book provides a general history of flash literature, its interaction and melding with other genres around the world--feuilleton writers and prose poetry writers in particular-- and will explore some of its present-day shapes and forms. Further, the book provides information on various important flash literature collections and anthologies that have been published through the years.
This book also gathers my best essays and articles on flash fiction and writing. Some of the essays have been published in Writer’s Digest and in their other publications ( Start Writing Now! and Guide to Writing Fiction Today ). They have also been published in Fiction Fix , Writing World , Perihelion , Fiction Southeast , Field Guide to Writing Flash Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field , Books and The Greenwood Encyclopedia of New American Writing , Critical Flash Fiction , and in Journal of Arts and Letters , where I am now the senior associate editor for flash discourse.
Also included are several new pieces, many exercises, studies, and prompts, and included is advice on workshops in general (in person or online), a list of markets for flash literature, as well as a serious marketing strategy.
Think about it. By making use of this portable workshop, by doing just one exercise or prompt per week, after a year’s time you will have created fifty-two new stories. That’s a lot of material to explore, polish, and send to markets. If you work on writing or rough drafting two pieces per week, you will double your creative output. All the while you’ll be exploring and learning more about important features of this complex manner of writing short fiction.
You can enter the study as deeply as you wish. You can learn more about flash fiction’s history, learn about various anthologies. Or you can take a simpler approach and focus mainly on the exercises and prompts.
This book-form workshop is the result of more than twenty years of close study and the result of eight years of online teaching (through Coffeehouse for Writers , Writing World , and f lashquake ). It is also the result of fifteen-plus years as administrator of the popular online Flash Fiction Workshop (which usually had a lengthy waiting list).
There is a lot to comprehend and discover about the complexity and diversity of flash literature. My hope for this book-form workshop is that it can help you understand even more of this compressed and often complicated type of writing. Through this portable workshop, I hope to share my extensive research and study of flash literature and increase your appreciation and skill in writing these short and fascinating stories.
In part, the book provides a general history of flash literature, its interaction and melding with other genres around the world--feuilleton writers and prose poetry writers in particular-- and will explore some of its present-day shapes and forms. Further, the book provides information on various important flash literature collections and anthologies that have been published through the years.
This book also gathers my best essays and articles on flash fiction and writing. Some of the essays have been published in Writer’s Digest and in their other publications ( Start Writing Now! and Guide to Writing Fiction Today ). They have also been published in Fiction Fix , Writing World , Perihelion , Fiction Southeast , Field Guide to Writing Flash Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field , Books and The Greenwood Encyclopedia of New American Writing , Critical Flash Fiction , and in Journal of Arts and Letters , where I am now the senior associate editor for flash discourse.
Also included are several new pieces, many exercises, studies, and prompts, and included is advice on workshops in general (in person or online), a list of markets for flash literature, as well as a serious marketing strategy.
222 pages, Paperback
Published September 28, 2022
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