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Best Microfiction Virtual 2024 Book Launch Event : July 28th on Facebook
Mark your calendars! The Best Microfiction 2024 virtual, all-inclusive Facebook launch date is July 28th! All day and night, BM 2024’s included writers…
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DoorsTo the World: Exchanging First Sentences Workshop: August 2nd-4th
This workshop is now FULL “First sentences are doors to the world.” -Ursula K. LeGuin Feeling exhausted by the blank page? Is your brain ready for a bit…
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Arranging & Uncramping Our Stories
“Decongest your pages.
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Two-Day Story Fixes Workshop with Meg Pokrass & Kathryn Kulpa: Eyes on the (Flash) Prize
July 28th & 29th, 2024
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Secrets Inside A Family Photograph: Prompt inspired by a Sandra Cisneros poem
Read “My Wicked Wicked Ways” (posted below) by Sandra Cisneros. Now write a creative nonfiction story or poem inspired by an old family photograph in…
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Lessons on Creating Characters from Method Actors
Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you. -Constantin…
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June 2024

Dear Epiphany: Survival Tips from the Multiple Rejection Survival Club
American flash fiction superstar Epiphany Ferrell has come aboard as our Rejection Survival Club Agony Aunt. She and will be here to answer your most…
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When A Literary Rejection Feels So Impersonal, You May as Well Be Speed-Dating It..
Many years ago I hit a wall of exhaustion from a slew of story rejections and needed to laugh.
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Flash Monologue Workshop: July 12th-14th
From July 12th-14th I’ll be leading a new kind of workshop with an unusual focus: flash fiction pieces written to be read aloud and/or performed…
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Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction & True Flash Award (CNF/memoir flash) SUBMISSIONS OPEN to writers worldwide!
I'm honoured to be judging Britain's largest flash fiction prize, the Edinburgh Flash Award in 2024! All Scottish Arts Trust awards are open to writers…
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Prompt of the week: The Magic of Being Stuck Together
This is a paid subscriber post, so comments will not be seen by the public. Therefore, please feel free to post your stories in the comments.
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How a Story Becomes an Award Winner: The Kathryn Kulpa Interview
The first of Meg’s forthcoming interviews with writers whose stories have been rejected multiple times and go on to become award winners
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