HeyJaredFlash Fiction Dispatches
Notes on flash fiction techniques, monthly prompts inspired by literary excerpts, reading recommendations, images to jumpstart writing, community, and more.
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From the Bookshelf (opens the original)
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Hermit Crab Flash Workshop (opens the original)
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I have a few spaces left in my 4-hour hermit crab flash workshop on Sunday, September 27!Here are the details:Sunday, September 27, 20261–5pm (ET)Online$80In this highly generative writing workshop, you’ll write flash fiction using found forms (aka the hermit crab, because you’re “borrowing” a familiar form). The environment will be playful, experimental, encouraging, and most of all, productive. We will borrow from three different forms and everyone will receive feedback on their work—from each
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