The Flash Fiction workshop will focus on experimentation and practice of flash fiction forms as well as the questions—what is flash fiction, how is its power achieved? During this five-week course students will examine and write stories that fall into five flash fiction categories: flash fiction (1000-1500); sudden flash fiction (750 words); microfiction (100 words); the six-word story; and the final class will be on marketing. There will be reading and writing assignments in and outside of class.

Flash Fiction Workshop. Teens & Adults. All experience levels welcome. Tuesdays, March 5-April 2, 7-8:30 p.m., St. John’s Episcopal Church,  323 Wick Ave. Course fee: $25. Need-based scholarships are available (LitYoungstown@gmail.com). Registration Deadline March 1.

 Please bring paper/notebook and pens, or an ipad or laptop to class.

Arya F. Jenkins is a writer/teacher/editor.  Her flash fiction has been published in numerous journals and zines such as Anti-Heroin Chic, Black Scat Review, Brilliant Corners, Cider Press Review, The Feminist Wire, Front Porch Review, KYSO Flash, The Matador Review, Metafore Literary Magazine and Mojave Literary Review. Her fiction was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2017 and her fiction and flash fiction garnered three nominations in 2018. She has published two poetry chapbooks and her short story collection Blue Songs in an Open Key was published by Fomite Press November 2018. Blue Songs in an Open Key is available via www.aryafjenkins.com.

 Arya has taught creative writing at Fairfield University and Mahoning County Career and Technical Center. She has worked as an editor for numerous writers, and as a newspaper, magazine and book editor.