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.
To submit: Email your file to
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Subject line: OCWW Manuscript Submission
Click here for payment instructions and additional information about manuscript submissions.
FRED SHAFER is a literary editor and teacher of writing. He was an editor with TriQuarterly, the international literary journal published by Northwestern University, where he taught fiction writing in the School of Professional Studies for many years. He leads private workshops in short story and novel writing.
Onsite and remote.
Register at:
https://ocww.info/event-6282254
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