Prose Workshop: Writing the Novella-in-Flash
Week 4 | Literary Arts Center at Alumni Hall Prose Room | Ages 18+
The novella-in-flash is a way to construct a narrative that allows for greater freedom in storytelling. It focuses on a series of moments as opposed to a longer narrative, but it can capture life in a completely different way. In this workshop, we'll start by learning about what flash is and what it can do differently from longer pieces. We'll construct individual stories as we work toward writing the longer work. We'll work in snapshots and learn how to develop the whitespace between stories in building our narratives. Finally, we'll look at alternative approaches to storytelling. Flexible. (Ages 18+)
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John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate and a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Mt. San Antonio College for 25 years. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including his novella-in-flash Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press) and his upcoming memoir-in-flash Kitkitdizzi with Ann Brantingham (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder.
