This is a 3 hour workshop on Sat. Aug 30th from 10:30-1:30 Pacific Time. The workshop will meet on Zoom. Upon registration a zoom link and handouts will be shared. In this virtual writing workshop, author and editor Grant Faulkner will conduct a workshop for writers of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoir.

The Art of Brevity

In flash fiction, the whole is a part and the part is a whole. The form forces the writer to question each word, to reckon with Flaubert’s mot juste, and move a story by hints and implications. Flash stories are built through gaps as much as the connective tissue of words, so what’s left out of a story is often more important than what’s included. 

 In this workshop, Grant Faulkner, co-founder of 100 Word Story and the author of The Art of Brevity—will discuss how a different type of creativity emerges within a hard compositional limit, exploring the many different forms that short shorts can take.