Writing Micros with Urgency and Immediacy Generative Workshop

Join us for a 90-minute generative writing session focused on writing microfiction! Fractured Lit is excited to bring this class to our submitters to help them write exciting and fresh micros they can enter into our yearly Micro Prize. Editor-in-Chief Tommy Dean has developed an inspiring and welcoming class where participants can learn craft moves from excellent model texts and write to multifaceted writing prompts. Past students have published stories inspired by Tommy’s prompts in today’s best flash fiction literary magazines. 

Microfiction demands that the writer (re)consider every word, every craft move, and every design decision. Writing these stories is a challenge but a fun one! In this class, we’ll focus on stretching our use of writing elements and craft moves to imbue our microfiction with electricity and resonance. Need a jump-start to your writing, want to try writing with extreme brevity, or just want to spend some time writing? We hope you’ll come write with us, so we’re offering this class for the low price of $20 per student! All interested are welcome, regardless of experience.

By the end of this generative workshop, you’ll have gained:

• Knowledge of or new insight on microfiction-specific craft moves you can use in your writing.
• A new reading list of microfiction examples. Plus, in-depth analysis of the craft moves that lead to excellent short-short stories.
• Four to five new prompts to inspire you to create solid beginnings or endings. Students will also be given a PDF copy of the slides, including the prompts, so they can use them in the future.
• Dedicated writing time in an inclusive community of writers where you can feel welcomed and comfortable sharing your work and ideas.