Whatever story you're burning to tell, there's a flash fiction form perfectly suited for it. In this hands-on workshop, flash fiction master Kathy Fish will explore five distinct approaches: the breathless single-paragraph rush, the fragmented mosaic, the playful hermit crab, the poetic use of repetition, and the distilled power of microfiction. Through published examples and guided writing exercises, you'll discover how form can serve your story's emotional urgency, pacing, and intent. Come ready to write, experiment, and find new ways into your shortest work.
Saturday, May 2, 10:00 – 12:30 (Geneva)
Workshop Fees: CHF 50 (Members) | CHF 70 (Non-Members)
Kathy Fish’s short stories, flash fiction, and prose poems have recently appeared in Ploughshares, Washington Square Review, Waxwing Magazine, Copper Nickel, the Norton Reader, and Best Small Fictions. Her fifth collection, Wild Life: Collected Works from 2003-2018, is now in its third print run with Matter Press. She is a recipient of the Copper Nickel Editor’s Prize. Her highly sought after flash fiction workshops, begun in 2015, have resulted in numerous publications and awards for the hundreds of writers who have taken part. Her work has been generously supported by the Ragdale Foundation and the Kerouac Project of Orlando. She publishes a bestselling newsletter, The Art of Flash Fiction, named one of the twenty best writing Substacks by Writers at Work. Other stories have appeared in Electric Literature, Wigleaf, Guernica, Denver Quarterly, Mississippi Review (online), Yemasseee Review, Indiana Review, Spork, Slice, New South, Newfound Journal and various other journals, textbooks, and anthologies.
