ENGL 26104 - Flash Fiction

In this course, students will read and write stories of 1,000 words or fewer. Questions we’ll work to answer include the following: How short can a story be so short and still be a story? How does flash fiction differ from longer stories in terms of form and content? How much complexity can be achieved in a very short story? We will study the development of the form of flash fiction and examine the venues in which very short stories have historically appeared. We will also examine and research contemporary venues for publishing flash fiction, focusing both on print and online journals. We will discuss the process of preparing work for submission, and each student will submit at least one piece of flash fiction to a literary journal. Students will participate in weekly workshopping sessions of their work and the work of their peers. Each student will create a chapbook of flash fiction as the final course project.

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