Sitemap - 2024 - Microfiction Workshops & More with Meg Pokrass
Winners of the 15-Word Xmas Ghost Story Contest!
A Selection of Quirky Holiday Stories (from Subscribers, Students and Friends)
Wanted: Links to Your Quirky Holiday Flashes!
On Courage and “Undoing the Self”
Why Constraints are Freedom For the Anxious Writer: More Thoughts!
December 8th: A 2-Hour Flash Fiction Generative Session with Grant Faulkner and Meg Pokrass
Serenading the Penguin: Uplifting Micros
The Springboard of a Prescribed First Sentence
"Twisted Piece of Wisdom" Prompt
Keeping the Secret Prompt (and a lesson from Meryl Streep)
Creating Something New from an Earlier Story
Prompt: The Magic of Working a Repeated Phrase
Writing Flash from Songs (and samples)
Meg's One-Syllable Story Challenge
Bad Motel Prompt (and Story Model)
Becoming A Fiction Writer Under Imperfect Conditions
"Story Truth" vs. "Factual Truth"
Open Time for Private Editing/Mentoring/Consulting
6-Sentence Story Workshop: Unusual, Quirky, Interesting Relatives
Finding a Story By Writing It Backwards
Brand New Flash Interviews (and a reading)
Making Each Sentence its Own Destination
Procrastinating No More: Making a Game of Writing to a Self-Prescribed Set of Rules
On Feeling Sorry for A.I. Chatbots (a healthier way to go)
Childless Cat (& Dog) Person Stories: A Microfiction Workshop with Meg Pokrass
Arranging & Uncramping Our Stories
Secrets Inside A Family Photograph: Prompt inspired by a Sandra Cisneros poem
Lessons on Creating Characters from Method Actors
Dear Epiphany: Survival Tips from the Multiple Rejection Survival Club
When A Literary Rejection Feels So Impersonal, You May as Well Be Speed-Dating It..
Prompt of the week: The Magic of Being Stuck Together
How a Story Becomes an Award Winner: The Kathryn Kulpa Interview
Thoughts on the Similarities between Acting and Writing
When Music Opens Doors to Stories
A New Free Hint Fiction Contest at Pokrass Prompts on Substack
FULL Anaphora and Urgency: A Micro Workshop
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF BEING A LITERARY WRITER at all levels...
On Abandoning Technique (w/ quotes by Joy Williams & Hilary Mantel)
The Same First Sentence: A Writing Challenge
The First Law of Holes: New and Selected from Dzanc Books
Defamiliarisation: Challenge #1 physical/emotional description
Surreal Microfiction w/ Meg Pokrass
Prose Poem/ Micro Story Exercise by Jeff Friedman
Private Editing &/or Mentoring Options: April, 2024
On Plunging In With An Open Heart
Prose Poetry for the Non-Conformist
50-Word Story Prompt: After Bob Thurber's "Before She Was My Mother" (repost)
Why Saying Less is Saying More in Flash Fiction
The Joy a Timer: Roberta Allen’s Interesting Writing Method
Comic Genius in Flash by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Facebook Account Problem and Moving to a New Page
Quiet Master of Flash: Angela Readman
Flash & Micro Manuscript Consultation and Editing Services
Lowering Your Standards & Writing Every Day
Flash Classics: "Record Album" by Sherrie Flick
Best Microfiction Winners 2024
Prose Garden Reading Series Event: Feb 17th, 2PM EST (on Zoom)
FLASH CLASSIC W/ PROMPT: 20/20 by Linda Brewer -- A Masterclass in Compression and Trust
Oddball Methods: #1 The Loop Story
Imposed Deadlines and Mentoring for Flash Writers
Where to Look for Endings (advice from Lorrie Moore)
"Fire, Ocean" by Leonora Desar
Salvador Dali Eyes: A Story by Douglas Campbell
FULL 100 Word "Messy Love" Workshop with Meg Pokrass: Feb 2nd-4th
Wild Perspectives: The 39 Steps of Writing by Frederick Barthelme
Prompt from "On Mondays, Francesca Takes the Stairs" by Cami Park from SmokeLong Quarterly