(Online) Writing Flash Nonfiction—It’s Not Just About Word Count with Judy Reeves

Sure size matters when you’re talking about flash nonfiction—parameters range between 250 and 750 words—but word count is just one element and not the most critical of this concise and popular form. Bernard Cooper, master of writing short nonfiction says the form requires “an alertness to details, a quickening of the senses, a focusing of the literary lens … until one has magnified some small aspect of what it means to be human.”

In this workshop, we’ll read published examples of flash nonfiction essays and memoirs and try our hand at writing our own. Participants will leave the workshop with a start on at least one brief nonfiction piece. Following the session, participants will be invited to submit the flash nonfiction piece created from our work together to the instructor for review and comments. Deadline for the completed and edited submissions will be two weeks following the workshop, with a written review returned (via email) two weeks following the submission.

You will be emailed the Zoom link 24 hours before the start of class. If you sign up less than 24 hours before the start of the class, please email Kristen at programs@sandiegowriters.org for your link.

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