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Your Story Ends Here: Flash Fiction, Short Story, or Something Longer?
Saturday, March 26, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
You’ve embarked on a work of fiction. You have a tentative starting point and an idea of the characters, the plot, and the tension. You even have a vision of how the work will end. All things considered, you’re off to a great start. But you also find yourself in a familiar predicament, and you ask yourself: is this flash fiction, a short story, or something longer? This panel of fiction writers working in a variety of forms will discuss how they decide what shape their work will take.
Participants
Stephen Pisani is a graduate of the MFA program at Adelphi University and the MA in writing program at Coastal Carolina University. His work has appeared in a variety of publications.
Amina Gautier is the author of three short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy, and The Loss of All Lost Things. For her body of work she has received the PEN/MALAMUD Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
Kevin Wilson is the author of a five books, most recently Nothing to See Here. He teaches in the English department at the University of the South.
Liz Moore is the author of four novels, including Heft, The Unseen World, and the internationally bestselling Long Bright River. A winner of the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she lives in Philadelphia and works as an associate professor in Temple University's MFA program in creative writing.
