Why write flash fiction?
1) Brevity is a useful constraint — as is true in poetry, every word counts. Flash fiction teaches us precision and concision.
2) It’s an excellent way to practice conveying plot, character, and emotion efficiently.
3) It makes you pay a new kind of attention to opening and closing lines that leave a lasting impression on the reader.
In this craft class and generative workshop, we will explore this brief (up to 500 words!) and vivid form, reading and discussing stories by Lydia Davis, Franz Kafka, George Saunders, and Jamaica Kincaid before turning to writing exercises designed to help us generate our own flash fiction.
Class takes place online on March 16 from 3-5 pm ET.
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Maya C. Popa is the author of American Faith and the forthcoming collection Wound/Wonder. She is the recipient of awards from the Poetry Foundation, the Oxford Poetry Society, the Hippocrates Society in London and the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, among others. She is the Poetry Reviews Editor at Publishers Weekly, teaches poetry at NYU and is the director of creative writing at the Nightingale-Bamford school where she oversees visiting writers, workshops and readings.
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