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Last chance for Sunday's workshop Make time for your writing this weekend Amanda Saint Apr 19 Hi writing friends, I hope all is well and you are finding time for your writing. We have lots of great things coming up to get you writing and give you the chance to get your words published. Even if you can’t make the Zoom workshop live time, everyone with a ticket will also be sent the replay link. Zoom Workshops Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash Breathless Prose with Debbi Voisey Sun 21 Apr 2024 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM BST This workshop will be all about choosing the right words and the right way to put them on the page to create impact, and about being original and surprising. We will read examples and create some beautiful and surprising prose of our own – including attempting a breathless paragraph that weaves a wonderful tale. By the end of the two hours you will have a first draft - or lots of notes - that you can work on and send out into the world. Please bring along an example of beautiful prose in a story you’ve read and love. I will ask some attendees to share some of these, depending on time available. There will be other examples provided by Debbi. Workshop Host: Debbi writes flash fiction, short stories and novels. She had two novellas-in-flash published in 2021 (Only About Love with Fairlight Books, and The 10:25 with Flash:The International Short-Short Story Press). Only About Love received a special mention in the 2022 Saboteur Awards and was shortlisted for the Arnold Bennett Prize 2022. Debbi’s novel, The Reset, will publish with Bloodhound Books in 2025. Debbi works with Retreat West running Friday Flashing sessions, the Monthly Micro Workshops, and providing editorial feedback on stories. Book here Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Reflections on Fairy Tale Retellings​ Sun 12 May 2024 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM BST Join Ingrid Jendrzejewski for a 2-hour workshop inspired by fairytales. While perhaps not common enough to be considered a genre unto themselves, retellings of fairy tales, fables, and folk tales pop up with considerable frequency in literary journals. ​Making use of traditional tales can be an engaging and effective method of questioning the past, reframing the present and imagining the future. It can also be deliciously fun. ​In this session, we’ll look at some examples of flash that have borrowed from fairy and folk tales in various ways, and try our hand at writing our own.​ Workshop host: Ingrid Jendrzejewski studied creative writing and English literature at the University of Evansville, then physics at the University of Cambridge. Her work has been published in places like Passages North, The Los Angeles Review, Jellyfish Review, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine and The Conium Review, and in Best Small Fictions 2019. She has won the Bath Flash Fiction Award and the A Room Of Her Own Foundation’s Orlando Prize for Flash Fiction among other competitions, and her short collection Things I Dream About When I’m Not Sleeping was a runner up for BFFA’s first Novella-in-Flash competition. She serves as a co-director of National Flash Fiction Day, editor-in-chief of FlashBack Fiction and a flash editor at JMWW. Links to some of Ingrid’s work can be found at www.ingridj.com and she tweets @LunchOnTuesday Opening Lines Competition Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash Just a couple more weeks to get your entries in for our Opening Lines competition to win an editorial report on a complete novel manuscript, plus other great prizes. Get info and enter here Flash Focus Course - starts 6th May Just 3 spaces left Photo by Stephen Kraakmo on Unsplash This online flash fiction course is split into distinct creation and critique weeks. We'll be using stories that have won prizes as the inspiration for the craft discussion, analysis and prompt, to help you take your flash fiction writing to the next level. Week 1: Every day from Monday to Friday, you'll get a workshop with craft development content, a reading and associated writing prompt. You'll just write without sharing and keep focused on creation mode. Week 2: Every day from Monday to Friday, you'll share the stories you wrote in Week 1, one per day, for feedback from the group. Week 3: Back in creation mode with 5 more craft posts and prompts to write to from Monday to Friday. Week 4: The final week will be focused on critiques again. All of the course content is online 24/7 for you to access when suits you best. “Really loved this course. I enjoyed having a week to think about the prompts instead of trying to write right away. Great variety of prompts and techniques to experiment with - pushed me to do things that were outside my comfort zone. I've learned a lot - so many things I will take forward with me.” — Cole Beauchamp Book here Hope to see you on a course, at a workshop, and to read your work for one of our submission opportunities soon! With love, Amanda © 2024 Amanda Saint Apt 3735, Chynoweth House, Trevissome Park Truro, TR4 8UN, UK