Fred Shafer's workshops at OCWW this year will explore miniature stories, their strategies and effects, and what they can teach us about longer stories, novel chapters, and our lives.
Instead of viewing miniature stories, also called flash fiction, as a genre of their own, Fred has chosen to treat them as part of a continuum with longer forms of fiction. He'll discuss the areas of experience that receive close attention in miniature stories and are just as important in longer works, but that we often overlook when reading, studying, and writing more expansive stories and novels. Using a series of examples taken from published fiction, he'll also address the things in life covered by longer forms that are beyond the reach of miniature stories.
Handouts will be emailed to registrants the day before each meeting, and added to confirmation notices for late registrations.
Fred will review manuscripts after the series concludes. In keeping with this year's subject, he will read and mark manuscripts of six pages or less. Submissions are limited to one per person. When submitting part of a longer work, you can include two to three sentences describing the context from which it was taken. Click here for additional information about manuscript submissions.
