This is No Place for Hate Flash Fiction Workshop

Flash fiction is changing the way we tell stories. Carving away the excess, eliminating all but the most essential, flash fiction is putting the story through a literary dehydrator, leaving the meat without the fat. And it only looks easy.

In this collaboration between Barnstable No Place Hate and The Cordial Eye nationally recognized authors, Nancy Stohlman and Cory Farrenkopf will lead a day long writing workshop on Flash fiction. The workshop will guide you through the process of telling a long narrative with an extreme conservation of words. Whether you are interested in writing Flash Fiction or just becoming a better story-teller, this workshop has something to offer you. Suggested donation $80.

Be sure to check out the F-bomb that evening.

Workshop Schedule:
10:00-11:30 Corey Farrenkopf will present a general introduction to flash fiction writing presenting the how and will get you to start writing focusing on Sense of Place/Sense of Play.

11:30-12:30 Break

12:30-2:30 Nancy Stohlman will discuss narrative approaches to flash fiction. She will be using portions of her new book "Going Short," to help focus writers on various ways to approach their own story. This will be a hands-on workshop with writers working on several drafts of their own story.

More about the instructors:

Nancy Stohlman has been writing, publishing, and teaching flash fiction for more than a decade, and her latest book, Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2020) is her treatise on the form. Her other books include The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories, The Monster Opera, and Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities, a finalist for a 2019 Colorado Book Award. Her work has been anthologized widely, appearing in the W.W. Norton New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, Macmillan’s The Practice of Fiction, and The Best Small Fictions 2019, as well as adapted for the stage. She teaches at the University of Colorado Boulder and around the world.

Corey Farrenkopf is a writer and librarian based on Cape Cod. His fiction has been published in or is forthcoming from The Southwest Review, Wigleaf, Flash Fiction Online, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Tiny Nightmares, Hobart, Catapult, and elsewhere. He is the Fiction Editor for the Cape Cod Poetry Review. To learn more, follow him on twitter @CoreyFarrenkopf or on the web at CoreyFarrenkopf.com