Spring Classes
Let's Write Together
100 Word Stories
Cost: Pay what you want
When: April 22, 2025 1:00-2:30 pm EDT
Join me for a 1.5 hour generative writing session focused on writing 100-word stories! There’s something fun and exhilarating about trying to fit a story into such a small box! We’ll look at model texts and hopefully get inspired by the writing prompts! Participants will be able to start/finish 4–6 drafts. In these micros, every word counts because they must hold up the weight of all the words not used in the story. They must account for the unsaid, must create the unsaid, and provide the reader a chance to make inferences. Come create the unsaid with me and your fellow writers!
Retreat Style Workshop!
Flash Club Sample-Generative
Cost: Pay What You Want
Where: Online/Zoom
May 21: 10:00-12:00 EST
Join writer me for a two-hour generative writing session focused on my popular Catching Lightning Flash Club. Don’t have time for a weekly meeting? Get my analysis and prompts in a quicker format! We’ll look at some of my more popular model texts and hopefully get inspired by the writing prompts! Participants will have the opportunity to start 3–5 drafts during this session. Flash word count/space limits put pressure on the writer to create and or/reveal characters quickly, but specifically and uniquely if they want to form dynamic and affecting stories. I’ll show you some ways to do this in your own writing!
Next Session: Fridays, April 11th-May 09
Session 1: 10:00-11:15 am EST (1 spot left)
Session 2 3:00-4:15 pm EST (4 spot left)
online/Live,
In my generative Zoom classes, I often wish I had more time to invest in each example story, to fully expose its foundations, to bring to light the craft moves made by the writer, and to discuss the story’s merits with my students. I wish I had more time to build community with all of you, to find the joy in discussing the value of flash fiction and how exhilarating it can be to bend and break the traditional writing rules and precepts.
Frankly, I’d love to spend more time working together to find new ways of expressing craft moves and elements in our flash fiction, to learn from the masters of the form, to create an in-person form of community. To do that, I want to create this club, where we meet on Zoom 1 time per week to analyze and discuss 1-2 flash/micros and then spend time writing together.
How it works:
Meet 1x per week for 5 weeks (75 minutes per meeting). Each session is recorded.
Participants will receive the story/read the story before the meeting. (Stories will be found in litmags online).
I will develop a brief lecture/analysis on how the story(s) work to show a particular craft move(s).
We will discuss the story(s) as a group. Share as much or as little as you want each week.
I will provide a writing prompt based on the story(s). We will have time to write and share a piece of our draft.
At the end of five weeks, each participant can turn in a draft of one flash for my feedback/critique.*
Cost: $20 per session or $85 when paying for the full 5 weeks
When: Fridays, Fridays, April 11th-May 09, 2025
Times: 10-11:15 am EST and 3-4:15 pm EST
*Participants must at least pay for 4 out of 5 sessions to receive a critique.