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Writing Flash Fiction
Flash fiction is prose of up to 1000 words. It's great for entering into competitions or submitting to literary journals and it's fun to read and write.
Flash can be the story of a single moment, or it can tell a whole life story in brief. It can be a short sharp shock, or just capture something beautiful or strange. Elements of life writing can be incorporated to create short autofictions which play on real experiences. Entire fantastical universes can be conjured. There are no limits!
Flash Fiction Workout with Emily Devane
‘Flash is its own form, uniquely suited to innovation and experimentation… That’s what makes it so exciting to read and write. Flash fiction, done well, can be so mind-bending and fresh.’ Kathy Fish
For new and established creative writers alike.
In Flash Fiction Workout, we'll explore the exciting short form of Flash Fiction using quirky themes, concepts and visual writing prompts. We will:
• Read a wide range of published Flash pieces from the heart-breaking, funny and joyful to the experimental, uncanny and weird to analyse the breadth and potential of the form.
• Write Flash pieces in class each week, sharing work with the group, as well as bringing in pieces worked on at home.
• Discover the best online and print places to publish including competition opportunities.
This course is ideal for generating lots of new material. It will bring concision, vibrancy and wonder to your work.
All levels welcome.
ZOOM DELIVERY
Cost £140
Summer: Mornings
- Tuesdays 10.30am-1pm
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June 4, 11, 18, 25, July 2, 9
THOROUGHLY ENJOYED
“I thoroughly enjoyed this class. It was well organised, well structured and the examples were extremely useful. The workshopping nature of each class was also very constructive. I could see how my writing developed over the period of the course.”
Mary
Flash Fiction Student
Emily Devane
Emily Devane is a writer, editor, teacher and bookseller based in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. Now specialising in short stories and flash fiction, Emily first came to Writing Room as a student back when it was Haringey Literature Live. This experience played an important part in her early writing career. Her short fiction has since been widely published in journals and anthologies including Smokelong Quarterly (third place, Grand Micro Contest 2021), Best Microfictions Anthology (2021), New Flash Fiction Review, Lost Balloon, Ellipsis, New Flash Fiction Review, Janus Literary, Ambit and others.
Emily is a founding editor at FlashBack Fiction, a journal dedicated to historical flash fiction. In 2022 she was shortlisted for The Mogford Prize for Food and Drink Writing, and she won second place in the Bath Short Story Award the same year. Emily has won the Bath Flash Fiction Award, a Northern Writers' Award and a Word Factory Apprenticeship. She also judged the October 2022 round of the Bath Flash Fiction Award.
Emily has over twenty years' teaching experience, and holds a PGCE in teaching from The University of Nottingham School of Education. She has taught workshops and courses for Comma Press, Dahlia Press, London Writers' Café, Writers HQ, Flash Fiction Festival, Tracks Darlington, Northern Writers' Studio and Sheffield Hallam University. Emily runs her own creative writing courses and workshops through Moor Words. She also facilitates The Grove Bookshop Writing Group in Ilkley and organises regular spoken word nights.
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