Tiny Fictions

This workshop will focus on extremely short
pieces as a way in to writing narrative and
non-narrative prose. We'll read flash fiction,
sudden fiction, blast fiction, short-shorts,
microfiction, minimalist fiction, prose poems,
Anne Carson's short talks, Lydia Davis's work,
John Keene's Annotations, Ben Marcus's fake
instruction sets, etc., and use these to think
about the limits of what prose can do in a
condensed and linguistically focused space.
We'll think about the sentence as a unit of
meaning and as an aesthetic gesture, discuss the
acoustics of prose, rhythm and sound in fiction,
and so on. The heart of the class will be
workshopping your short pieces and a final
project.