In this workshop we’ll explore published examples, discuss the characteristics and history of the genre, and brainstorm, draft, and workshop a piece of flash fiction or nonfiction. Participants will leave this brief workshop with a new 1,000-word or less piece of writing, a reading packet of award-winning examples to use as inspiration, and a list of flash fiction journals.

Venue: Louisville Literary Arts, 1512 Portland Avenue (enter on Portland, through McQuixotes)

Time: 9:30AM-Noon

Registration: $40 / $30 (LLA Members)

Instructor: Megan Pillow Davis

Megan Pillow Davis is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction and is currently a doctoral candidate in the University of Kentucky’s English Department. Her work has appeared, among other places, in Electric Literature, SmokeLong Quarterly, Memoir Mixtapes, and Mutha Magazine, has been featured in Longreads, and is forthcoming in Collective Unrest, Jellyfish Review, Pithead Chapel, Longleaf Review, and X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine. She has also been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for Best Small Fictions. Megan is currently revising her debut novel, which was a semifinalist for the YesYes Books First Fiction Open Reading Period, and she has begun work on her second book. She is also currently completing her dissertation, an examination of the American freak show and its literature. Megan has received fellowships from Pen Parentis and the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and she recently completed a residency with the Ragdale Foundation. She was also named a finalist for The Baltic Writing Residency's Kentucky Writers Fellowship for 2018. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her family.