About This Workshop

Smash Your Flash - The Craft of Short (Short) Fiction

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Hey there, story-seekers.

I’m Jo Gatford, and I’m here to deliver your next course—Smash Your Flash: The Craft of Short (Short) Fiction.  During this workshop we’ll be covering a range of different approaches and exploring the elements of flash fiction, including: 

• How to get started: borrowed structures 

• Mining for subtext and identifying the ‘turn’

• Manipulating time and space

• Interweaving story threads 

• Experimentation and magical realism

• Difficult subjects: how to write around them

• Developing and editing your flash drafts

It will be a smorgasbord of techniques for you to build a flash with. The trick is finding the right structure, voice, and style to suit your story idea, which is exactly what we’re going to learn!

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About The Instructor

Jo Gatford is the author of The Woman’s Part, a hybrid collection inspired by Shakespeare’s women, and holds an MA in Shakespeare & Theatre from the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. She is also an award-winning novelist, poet, flash fiction writer and scriptwriter, with over 50 publications, including the Bath Flash Award, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Forge, trampset and Stylist. She has been an editor and mentor for 15 years, and has been teaching creative writing and narrative theory for over a decade. Find out more at www.jogatford.com