Some writers take pages upon pages to give you goosebumps, while others need less than a thousand words. But a flash piece isn’t just a condensed short story or essay. It’s an art in itself. Join us for a generative writing session while we use prompts and easy tips and tricks to spark your flash prose. We’ll also spend some time with work from writers like Kathy Fish and Monica Brashears as models. This is a space to experiment and play with a flexible, imaginative, and often surprising form!

Eshani Surya is a writer and educator whose writing has appeared in or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, [PANK], Catapult, Paper Darts, and Joyland, among others. Eshani is a Flash Fiction Co-Editor at Split Lip Magazine, and her flash fiction has won the Ryan R. Gibbs Award for Flash Fiction, has been included in anthologies such as Tiny Nightmares and Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction, and has been nominated for Best Small Fictions and Wigleaf’s Top 50 Short Fictions. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona in Tucson, and is at work on her first novel. Find her @__eshani or at http://eshani-surya.com.