Begins April 23, 2026

Travel the map of micro and flash creative writing in fiction and nonfiction. Over twelve weeks we’ll learn about the flash form, read from inspiring authors and produce spontaneous writing from a prompt every week. Each prompt focuses on different elements of the writing craft from narrative arc to metaphor to finding inspiration. The entire course builds across the twelve weeks from the flash introduction to full competence in flash writing.  By the end, you’ll have started at least twelve flash pieces and/or found inspiration for your longer works in progress.

Leading Writing Away Refuge flash sessions online and at the live retreat in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Look for future flash and micro sessions at Writing Away Refuge virtual retreats.

In 2023 I helped judge the NC Writer’s Flash Prose contest and taught about flash writing.. In 2022 I gave NC Writer’s Morning Out a workshop on writing flash fiction and nonfiction. I regularly teach flash topics at Southern New Hampshire University.

This class journeys into micro creative writing where we distill meaning into its richest form. Moments in Miniature is an asynchronous online course taught through Canvas. We travel the map of micro creative writing, reading from inspiring authors in this abbreviated form. Responding to three prompts (there will be a fourth bonus prompt), participants in this class will produce flash fiction/nonfiction sharing with each other and commenting on each other’s work. Each prompt focuses on different elements of writing craft from narrative arc to metaphor. By the end, we’ll have started three (or four) new flash pieces!