Flash Fiction Workshop: Lightning on the Page

Flash fiction is efficient, nimble, and exhilarating, a form powered by what George Saunders calls “a line-by-line energy.” In this course, we’ll explore how vivid language, unconventional structures, and compression can create stories that make a lasting impression despite (or because of) their brevity.

We will read flash fiction by writers such as Tommy Orange, Charles Johnson, Angela Pneuman, and Kathy Fish to see how intensity, voice, and precision operate at the sentence level.

Through weekly assignments and supportive workshops, you will draft and revise 3–5 flash pieces.

Designed for writers new to flash as well as those returning to the form, the course welcomes novelists seeking a playful reset, poets curious about narrative, and anyone eager to experiment with words and images on the page.