Day Workshop: Flash Fiction with Kit de Waal

Date/Time
Date(s) - Sun 6th May, 2018
10:00am - 4:00pm

Location
Moniack Mhor, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire , IV4 7HT

This course will examine this exciting genre, the short-short story or flash fiction. We will look at their rise in popularity and the many new competitions that now include flash as a category. By examining and deconstructing examples of flash from the masters, we will work out how to craft them and discover the elements of what makes a good flash fiction story. Using prompts, pictures and a box of tricks, we will try our hand at writing one or two, editing, refining and perfecting. Each participant will have the opportunity to share their work if they wish and get some advice on where they might be placed.

Kit de Waal writes novels, short stories and flash fiction for which she has won numerous awards. She won the Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction in 2014 and 2015. Her debut novel, My Name is Leon, won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and was shortlisted for the Costa Debut Novel, the British Book Awards Debut and the Desmond Elliott Prize. In 2016, she founded the Kit de Waal Scholarship at Birkbeck University.

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