Sponsored by the Friends of the New Orleans Public Library.
This interactive workshop covers the basics of writing flash fiction, let by Third Lantern Lit Vice President, Marguerite Sheffer. We'll look at examples, play with prompts, and go over strategies for writing very short stories with a punch.
Learn the essential elements of writing flash fiction (short stories under 1000 words). Writers of all levels are welcome. No formal writing experience required.
Bring a notebook or laptop and be ready to write.
About Marguerite Sheffer
Marguerite (Maggie) Sheffer’s debut short story collection, The Man in the Banana Trees won the 2024 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was named a “Best Debut Book of 2024” by Debutiful and a “Most Exciting Debut Story Collection” by Electric Literature. Her stories appear in The Cincinnati Review, BOMB, LitHub, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Smokelong Quarterly, among other magazines. Her story “Tiger on My Roof” was a finalist for the 2024 Chautauqua Janus Prize, which awards emerging writers’ short fiction with “daring formal and aesthetic innovations that upset and reorder readers’ imaginations.” At Tulane University she teaches courses in design thinking and speculative fiction as tools for social change. She is a founding member of Third Lantern Lit, a New Orleans writing collective.