Writing Flash Fiction with Stephanie Reents

Join Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum and instructor Stephanie Reents for a writing workshop on Flash Fiction – brief stories ranging from 500 to 1000 words. For this course, Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories will be required.  

The beauty of flash fiction is that it invites playfulness and experimentation – unlike the long short story, a flash story can be drafted in a single sitting. Although you have only a few pages (or paragraphs) to write a flash story, the fundamentals of fiction writing still hold, and in this course, we will touch upon characterization, dialogue, and point of view, detail and setting, and forward movement and plot, by looking at a wide range of successful flash stories by authors such as Sandra Cisneros, Lydia Davis, Peter Orner, Steve Almond, and many other contemporary writers.