R273. Flash in the Classroom: Teaching Micro Prose

Room LL4, Western New England MFA Annex, Lower Level
Thursday, February 27, 2014
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

 

As interest in the flash form continues to develop, teachers must be ready with pedagogical approaches in mind and in hand. This panel of experts in teaching and writing flash, including faculty from Chatham University, Ball State University, and Emerson College, along with editors from Brevity and NANO Fiction, will identify the best practices for generating successful flash-based workshops while exploring effective readings and exercises for writing students.


Participants

Moderator:

Sophie Rosenblum is the Web Editor for NANO Fiction. Her essays on food and travel have appeared in print and online, and her fiction has appeared in New Letters, the Iowa Review, and American Short Fiction. She is pursuing a PhD at Florida State University.

Sherrie Flick is author of the novel Reconsidering Happiness and the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting. Series editor for At Table, the Food Writing book list at University of Nebraska Press, she teaches in Chatham University's MFA program.

Pamela Painter is the author of the very short story collection Wouldn’t You Like to Know. Her stories have been published in numerous journals and reprinted in: Sudden Fiction, Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Forward, Microfiction, Sudden Flash Youth, Sudden Stories, and Flash Fiction Funny.

Sean Lovelace works in flash fiction and hybrid fiction and nonfiction. He has won several awards. He is the author of Fog Gorgeous Stag and They Could No Longer Contain Themselves. His next book is about Velveeta. He teaches creative writing at Ball State University, and he blogs at seanlovelace.com.

Sarah Einstein is a PhD Candidate at Ohio University in Creative Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, [PANK], Fringe, and other journals and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. She is also the managing editor of Brevity.

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