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Flash (Nonfiction) to the Future: A Speculative Brevity Reading
Thursday, March 24, 2022
10:35 am to 11:50 am
Brevity has been a celebrated home to flash nonfiction, publishing thousands of essays, craft pieces, and blog responses over its two decades and counting. In an increasingly online era with the popularity of flash rocketing forward, it is a good time to explore what’s next for this incredibly rich, groundbreaking genre. Join our diverse panel of Brevity contributors for a reading and discussion exploring future possibilities for the flash nonfiction form and genre hybrids just now emerging.
Participants
Dinty W. Moore is author of Crafting the Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, the memoir Between Panic & Desire, and numerous other books of nonfiction.
Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the nonfiction books This Jade World, Buddha’s Dog & other Meditations, Southside Buddhist, and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy. The Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College, he is the editor of Sweet: A Literary Confection.
Natalie Lima is a Cuban Puerto Rican writer and an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at the University of Arizona. Her essays and fiction have been published or are forthcoming in Longreads, Guernica, Brevity, the Offing, Catapult, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter at @natalielime09.
Deesha Philyaw is the author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, winner of the the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction.
Ander Monson is the author of nine books, including the forthcoming Predator: a Memoir. He teaches at the University of Arizona and edits the magazine DIAGRAM, the website Essay Daily, March Xness, and New Michigan Press.
