Flash Fiction Intensive
Get inspired and learn how to write and publish flash fiction. Write 12 stories in 4 weeks.
Do you want to learn to write flash fiction? Flash fiction--very short stories-- are just as fun to write as they are to read. Writing flash fiction is also a great way to break into publishing. In the four-week flash fiction intensive, you will read and write stories of 750 words or fewer.
What you get in the Flash Fiction Intensive:
- A new video and written lesson every week
- Daily reading suggestions and writing prompts
- You will write at least three flash fictions per week for four weeks.
- If you choose the full version of the course at checkout, you will receive instructor feedback on a total of four stories (one story per week). The BASIC version does not include feedback.
- Although the course is designed to be completed over four weeks, you will have access to all of the materials for six months, so you can work at the pace that best fits your schedule.
- In week 4, you will learn how and where to submit your flash fiction.
If you've ever wanted to write short stories, but don't think you have the time, or if you've heard about flash fiction but don't really know what it is, this class is for you!
Recommended Texts
These books are completely optional. All of the Daily Readings can be found online.
Short: An International Anthology of Five Centuries of Short Stories, Prose Poems, Brief Essays, and Other Short Prose Forms, edited by Alan Ziegler
Flash Fiction Forward: 80 Very Short Stories, edited by James Thomas and Robert Shapard
Frequently Asked Questions
Your Instructor
Michelle Richmond is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels and two award-winning story collections. Her books have been published in 31 languages and optioned repeatedly for film and television. She has taught in the Masters of Fine Arts programs in creative writing at the University of San Francisco and California College of the Arts and has served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at St. Mary's College of Moraga, Bowling Green State University, and Notre Dame de Namur University. She has also designed and taught novel writing courses online for Stanford Continuing Studies. She is the founder and publisher of Fiction Attic Press.