5/21 Class - Flash Fiction: Insights From an Editor with Thomas Dean - $32
Date: 5/21
Time: 09:00 am - 11:00 am PDT
Cost: $40/$32 for members
Class Level: Emerging - Intermediate
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
Welcome to a generative opportunity to focus on your writing! In this two hour zoom class, we will look at Flash fiction examples from the literary magazine Fractured Lit. As the editor, I want to show you some craft moves that will help you build resonant, exciting, flash fiction! We’ll look at openings, characterization, metaphors, compression, and ways to escalate plot and conflict! Come ready to write and share your rough drafts as we write together!
Tommy Dean is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks Special Like the People on TV (Redbird Chapbooks, 2014) and Covenants (ELJ Editions, 2021). Hollows, A collection of flash fiction is forthcoming from Alternating Current Press. He lives in Indiana where he currently is the Editor at Fractured Lit and Uncharted Magazine. A graduate of the Queens University of Charlotte MFA program, he is currently working on a novel. A recipient of the 2019 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction, his writing can be found in Best Microfiction 2019 and 2020, Best Small Fiction 2019, Monkeybicycle, and the Atticus Review. He taught writing workshops for the Gotham Writers Workshop, the Barrelhouse Conversations and Connections conference, and The Writers Workshop. Find him at tommydeanwriter.com and on Twitter @TommyDeanWriter.
Date: 5/21
Time: 09:00 am - 11:00 am PDT
Cost: $40/$32 for members
Class Level: Emerging - Intermediate
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
Welcome to a generative opportunity to focus on your writing! In this two hour zoom class, we will look at Flash fiction examples from the literary magazine Fractured Lit. As the editor, I want to show you some craft moves that will help you build resonant, exciting, flash fiction! We’ll look at openings, characterization, metaphors, compression, and ways to escalate plot and conflict! Come ready to write and share your rough drafts as we write together!
Tommy Dean is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks Special Like the People on TV (Redbird Chapbooks, 2014) and Covenants (ELJ Editions, 2021). Hollows, A collection of flash fiction is forthcoming from Alternating Current Press. He lives in Indiana where he currently is the Editor at Fractured Lit and Uncharted Magazine. A graduate of the Queens University of Charlotte MFA program, he is currently working on a novel. A recipient of the 2019 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction, his writing can be found in Best Microfiction 2019 and 2020, Best Small Fiction 2019, Monkeybicycle, and the Atticus Review. He taught writing workshops for the Gotham Writers Workshop, the Barrelhouse Conversations and Connections conference, and The Writers Workshop. Find him at tommydeanwriter.com and on Twitter @TommyDeanWriter.
Date: 5/21
Time: 09:00 am - 11:00 am PDT
Cost: $40/$32 for members
Class Level: Emerging - Intermediate
Link and materials will be emailed at least 30 minutes before class.
Welcome to a generative opportunity to focus on your writing! In this two hour zoom class, we will look at Flash fiction examples from the literary magazine Fractured Lit. As the editor, I want to show you some craft moves that will help you build resonant, exciting, flash fiction! We’ll look at openings, characterization, metaphors, compression, and ways to escalate plot and conflict! Come ready to write and share your rough drafts as we write together!
Tommy Dean is the author of two flash fiction chapbooks Special Like the People on TV (Redbird Chapbooks, 2014) and Covenants (ELJ Editions, 2021). Hollows, A collection of flash fiction is forthcoming from Alternating Current Press. He lives in Indiana where he currently is the Editor at Fractured Lit and Uncharted Magazine. A graduate of the Queens University of Charlotte MFA program, he is currently working on a novel. A recipient of the 2019 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction, his writing can be found in Best Microfiction 2019 and 2020, Best Small Fiction 2019, Monkeybicycle, and the Atticus Review. He taught writing workshops for the Gotham Writers Workshop, the Barrelhouse Conversations and Connections conference, and The Writers Workshop. Find him at tommydeanwriter.com and on Twitter @TommyDeanWriter.