Flash Fiction
Writing Workshop

Mission

Flash Fiction! Sudden Fiction! Micro Fiction! Postcard Fiction! Short Shorts! Minute Fiction! Haibun! Flash Plays!

Administrator: Pamelyn Casto

(Page updated 9-9-06)

The Flash Fiction Writing Workshop (free) is for serious writers of short short pieces (beginner to more advanced, but serious). All members share one goal--to improve in the craft of writing.

The length limit for pieces submitted for critique is around 500 words, more or less, but nothing over 1,000 words.

Participation is mandatory . The minimum requirements to remain in the workshop are to submit one piece of your own each month and do four critiques for others. Those who are not able to meet these minimum requirements will be unsubscribed. We have no upper limit, however, on the number of critiques you can do for others. The more you do the more you learn about writing (by trying hard to understand and express what makes a piece effective or not effective).

In addition to critiquing each other's work, we will also discuss writing theory, try exercises, share markets, and share our publishing successes.

We take copyrights very seriously here and your work will be accessible only to workshop members. We keep no archives.

You must be over 18 to join and must use your real name (no aliases or pseudonyms allowed).


Profile

Pieces submitted for critique can include mainstream short short stories, parables, fables, tall tales, fairy tales, magical realism, irrealism, experimental, humor, slice-of-life vignettes, mysteries, ghost stories, haibun, horror, flash plays, creative non-fiction, and flash fiction (also sometimes known as sudden, furious, minute, and postcard fiction). While we do accept prose poetry and haibun, we do not accept other types of poetry (since there are so many other workshops that fill this need--see link below for Muse-W Poetry Workshop).

Information

Serious writers with a genuine interest in sharing, learning, and working to improve their writing skills are welcome to join us. To receive further information about the Flash Fiction Writing Workshop, send an email message to:

listserv@listserv.uta.edu

In both the subject header and in the message section of the email write only this: Subscribe FlashFiction-W YourFirstName YourLastName

Example: subscribe FlashFiction-W John Adamski

You must include the above in both sections or nothing will happen to your request to join.

News

Pamelyn Casto's online courses in Haibun (course begins Sept. 11, 2006) and in Flash Fiction (course begins October 30, 2006. See flashquake magazine for all details (course syllabus, sign up info): http://www.flashquake.org/online-classes/index.html (or hit the link below).


Feature-length Articles on Flash Fiction Published by Writer's Digest Publications:

Pamelyn Casto and Geoff Fuller. "How To Write Short-Short Stories. "Writers' Digest. Feb. 2001 issue

Pamelyn Casto and Geoff Fuller. "Put The Flash Into Fiction." Guide To Writing Fiction Today (A Writer's Digest Yearbook Publication). Winter 2002

Pamelyn Casto and Geoff Fuller. "Simple Complexity." Start Writing Now! Your Introduction to the Writing Life (A Writer's Digest Publication). Jan. 2002.

Pamelyn Casto and Geoff Fuller. "4 Simple Steps to Short Fiction That Shines." Writer's Digest. October 2002 issue

Pamelyn Casto and Geoff Fuller. "Give Your Tales a Twist." Writer's Digest Yearbook: Guide To Writing Fiction Today, December 2002 issue.

Pamelyn Casto and Geoff Fuller. "A Short Course in Short-Short Fiction." 2003 (7th Edition) of Bridging The Gap: College Reading. Brenda D. Smith, Editor (Professor Emeritus at Georgia State University). New York, London, Tokyo, Madrid, Hong Kong, Montreal: Longman Publishing, 7th Edition, 2003).

Flash Fiction Flash: The Newsletter for Flash Fiction Writers. This free newsletter, distributed via email, is devoted to short-short fiction (1,500 words or fewer). Each montly newsletter will include flash fiction markets, contests, flash fiction publishing news, workshop news, and more.

To subscribe see http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/FlashFictionFlash

Or send a blank email message to: FlashFictionFlash-Subscribe@yahoogroups.com

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