I taught a flash fiction workshop at Knox College in the spring of 2010. Here's some of what went down:
RESOURCES
READING LIST
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field, Tara L. Masih, Editor
Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, David Lehman, Editor
One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies, by Sarah Manguso, Dave Eggers, and Deb Olin Unferth
Supplemental readings included packets containing work by:
Ernest Hemingway, from In Our Time
Yusinari Kawabata, from Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Daniil Kharms, from Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings…
Lydia Davis, from Break it Down
Microfictions from FRiGG Magazine
Tina May Hall, from All the Day’s Sad Stories
Matt Bell, from The Collectors
Jamie Iredell, from Prose. Poems. A Novel.
Aaron Burch, from How to Take Yourself Apart, How to Make Yourself Anew
Peter Markus, from Good, Brother
STUDENT WORK
Kate Carsella
Tasha Coryell
Carolyn Hanig
Liz Ketchum
Sam Martone
Kevin Morris
Annie Zak
