Read, Write, Revise: Flash Fiction Intensive - January 2027
Sundays - 4-Weeks - Begins January 10th 2027 - 9am-11am PT
Instructor: Finnian Burnett
A Four-Week Generative Flash Fiction Workshop
We can learn so much about writing powerful flash fiction by reading it closely, breaking it apart, and creating new work in response.
In this interactive, generative four-week workshop, we’ll study one exceptional contemporary flash fiction story and use it as a springboard for our own writing. Each week will focus on an in-depth craft element for flash fiction that hits hard. Interiority, Layering, Structure and Form, and the beautiful relationship between POV and tense.
Students will spend significant dedicated time writing during class and will leave each session with new material, deeper craft awareness, and some insight into how to revise their own stories. Please note this is not a critique class. The focus is on understanding the concepts of craft and how to infuse them into your own work.
As a special feature of the course, each week will include a brief behind-the-scenes quote from the featured author about their writing process, inspiration, challenges, or revision approach for the story we’re studying. These process notes offer rare insight into how contemporary flash fiction writers actually shape their work and how you might shape yours.
Because this class moves quickly into deeper craft analysis and drafting, students should already have a basic familiarity with flash fiction and storytelling fundamentals.