FLASH FICTION WORKSHOP

“The Wacky, Weird, and Wonderful: Dazzling Narratives and Experimental Flash Fictions”

The constraints of flash fiction have ironically created a new sort of genre freedom, and flash fiction writers are embracing contortions that wouldn’t work in other forms: a motley circus of tightrope walkers and jugglers and trapeze artists plunging against their boundaries and defying narrative in breathtaking ways. In this one-hour workshop we’ll examine, discuss, and take bold risks with experimental narratives, attempting the kinds of literary acrobatics and daredevil antics that emerge when plots are forced to bend in small spaces.  

If you want to attend this workshop, please email bffnonprofit@gmail.com with WORKSHOP in the subject line, giving your name and an email address where we can send a Zoom link. We ask participants to donate $20 by clicking the Donate button at brilliantflashfiction.com. Everyone attending the workshop will be eligible for a drawing to win one of 3 signed copies of Nancy Stohlman’s book, Going Short.

Nancy Stohlman has been writing, publishing, and teaching flash fiction for nearly 15 years. Her latest book, Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction, was a 2021 Reader Views Gold Award winner and a Next Generation Indie Book Award finalist. Other books include Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities, The Monster Opera, and The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories. Her fiction has appeared in the W.W. Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction and The Best Small Fictions 2019, been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes, and adapted for both the stage and screen. Find out more at www.nancystohlman.com

THANK YOU

… to everyone who submitted their work for our second print anthology. We received 350 international submissions and are now in the process of selecting stories. If you do not receive an acceptance email by June 1, 2021, your story will not be included.