fractured lit revision workshop

Workshop Details

Need a close read and expert advice about your flash and/or micro fiction? This time we're focusing on revision techniques! This workshop is all about the follow-through.

 

The first round of feedback will be on 3 pieces of your choice. You'll then send us one of those pieces after your revision for further notes. This second round of notes can be on your favorite piece, or one that's really been thorny. Up to you!

 

All participants will also join our editor, Tommy Dean, for an exclusive generative zoom workshop on revision. This will be recorded as well for all who register.

 

This workshop is open to all writers and is an excellent way to get your flash or micros ready to submit and find readers. Please keep submissions to no more than 3 flashes or 5 micros (3,000 words total or less) and include a cover letter describing your piece.

 

Your cover letter should include a brief introduction to your story, where you have submitted or hope to submit in the future, and any specific feedback you're looking for, as well as challenges you're having with the piece. When your submission is uploaded you will receive registration confirmation. Stories will be processed in the order they are received.

 

Participants Receive:

• an editorial letter from your instructor with specific suggestions and developmental edits that will help elevate your flash to the next level
• a chance to revise 1 flash/micro based on your instructor's feedback and submit it to the Fractured Editorial team for possible acceptance or an additional feedback letter
• PDF of materials including craft essays from our Editor in Chief, advice and inspiration from editors across the community, editorial notes on what we see from the slush pile, information on submission strategies, and additional advice on submitting
• a free submission in a forthcoming Fractured Lit contest
• suggestions on literary magazines and contests that would be a good fit for your work, along with reading recommendations from your instructor
• an exclusive generative zoom class led by Editor Tommy Dean using stories published in Fractured Lit as inspiration! This class will provide participants with an opportunity to read and learn craft moves from several model texts followed by 4-5 writing prompts.
• the opportunity to join a workshop group with your peers in the program
• Writers will receive their final feedback no later than February 28, 2023. Early submissions may yield earlier feedback.

 

2022 Guest Editors:

 

Andrew Porter is the author of three books, including the forthcoming short story collection, The Disappeared (Knopf, 2022), the short story collection, The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage/Penguin Random House), which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novel, In Between Days (Knopf), which was a Barnes & Noble “Discover Great New Writers” selection. Porter’s books have been published in foreign editions in the UK and Australia and translated into numerous languages, including French, Spanish, Dutch, Bulgarian, and Korean. His individual stories have appeared in such publications as The Pushcart Prize anthology, Ploughshares, One Story, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review, and The Threepenny Review, and currently, he teaches fiction writing and directs the Creative Writing Program at Trinity University in San Antonio.

 

Shasta Grant is the author of the chapbook Gather Us Up and Bring Us Home (Split Lip Press, 2017). Ann Patchett selected her story, "Most Likely To," as the winner of the 2015 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest. She was a 2020 Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellow and the 2016 Kathy Fish Fellow at SmokeLong Quarterly, where she is now an editor. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and The Best Small Fictions and long-listed for the Wigleaf Top 50. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Epiphany, Gargoyle, cream city review, Hobart, MonkeyBicycle, Wigleaf, and elsewhere. Shasta is represented by Saba Sulaiman at Talcott Notch Literary.

 

Anthony Varallo is the author of a novel, The Lines (University of Iowa Press), as well as four short story collections: This Day in History, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award; Out Loud, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize; Think of Me and I’ll Know (Northwestern University Press/TriQuarterly Books); and Everyone Was There, winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award.  He is a professor of English at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, where he is the fiction editor of Crazyhorse (now swamp pink). Find him online at @TheLines1979.

 

Sherrie Flick is the author of the novel Reconsidering Happiness and two short story collections, Whiskey, Etc. and Thank Your Lucky Stars. Her fiction has appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Flash Fiction Forward, New Sudden Fiction, and New Micro, as well as Ploughshares, Wigleaf, and New World Writing. She served as series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018, is a senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly, and co-editor for Flash Fiction America (Norton, 2022).

 

Tara Campbell is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, fiction co-editor at Barrelhouse, and graduate of American University's MFA in Creative Writing. She’s the recipient of the following awards from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities: the Larry Neal Writers' Award, the Mayor's Arts Award for Outstanding New Artist, and annual Arts and Humanities Fellowships from 2018 - 2022. Campbell's publication credits include SmokeLong Quarterly, Masters Review, Wigleaf, Booth, Strange Horizons, Electric Literature's Commuter, and CRAFT Literary. She's the author of a novel and four multi-genre collections including her newest, Cabinet of Wrath: A Doll Collection. She teaches creative writing with American University, Johns Hopkins University, The Writer's Center, Politics and Prose, Catapult, Clarion West, and the National Gallery of Art.

 

Editorial Team:

 

Exodus Oktavia Brownlow is a Blackhawk, Ms native. She is a graduate of Mississippi Valley State University with a BA in English, and Mississippi University for Women with an MFA in Creative Writing. Exodus has been published or has forthcoming work with ElectricLit, Hobart, Booth, Barren Magazine, Jellyfish Review, Chicken Soup for The Soul, Louisiana Literature, F(r)fiction, and more. She has been nominated for Best of The Net, Best MicroFiction and a Pushcart Prize. Her piece “It’s 5am-ish, And My Father Tells Me A Story From His Time in Singapore” will be included in the anthology Best MicroFiction 2021.

 

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 was published by Alternating Current Press in 2022. He lives in Indiana where he currently is the Editor at Fractured Lit and Uncharted Magazine. 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 numerous litmags. Find him at tommydeanwriter.com and on Twitter @TommyDeanWriter.