Intro to Flash Nonfiction with Brian Benson (Zoom)

This 6-week course meets on 10/15, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, from 6-8 p.m, on Zoom.

Flash nonfiction, simply put, is true-to-life writing defined by extreme compression. It's saying what you've got to say using as few words, and as much beauty, as possible. An endlessly accessible, playful, potent form, flash nonfiction is evermore popular; from Brevity to Cleaver, Diagram to The Forge, Hippocampus to HAD, legions of journals are publishing excellent flash. Over our six weeks together, students will read stellar flash, begin a dozen new pieces, give weekly table reads of works-in-progress, and move toward submitting work for publication. This class is open to all writers, whether you're new to the form or finishing your first collection. 

Brian Benson is the author of GOING SOMEWHERE, and co-author, with Richard Brown, of THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. His essays have been published in X-R-A-Y, Pithead Chapel, Tahoma Literary Review, Cleaver,…