Are you flash curious? Flex your writing muscles in this free Totally Lit workshop with Gillian O'Shaughnessy, presented at Fremantle Library.

The workshop will offer an overview of the form, techniques for writing flash fiction or micro memoir, examples of published stories, and prompts for writing your own flash or micro piece. No prior experience writing in the form is required—come ready for a relaxed, friendly and encouraging session.

Stories produced in this program may also be considered for inclusion in Totally Lit's Writ Large program. Visit the Totally Lit Festival website for more information. https://totallylit.au/program/writ-large/

ABOUT GILLIAN O'SHAUGHNESSY

Gillian O’Shaughnessy is an award-winning author of flash fiction and a former broadcaster and senior journalist with the ABC for 25 years. She has won the London Independent Story Prize, the UK Welkin Mini, the US Fractured Literary Anthology Prize and the UK Reflex Prize for flash fiction, among others. Her work has been widely anthologised and chosen for the 2023, 2024 and 2025 international Best Small Fictions. She is a submissions editor for US flash narrative journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, a judge of the Australian Stella Prize, and a former curator of the Perth Writers Festival. Her debut collection of flash fiction is due in 2026, published by Night Parrot Press.

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Flash Workshop #1

Flash Workshop #3