Short and Sweet - Finding Your Voice in Flash Fiction

Flash-fiction is the perfect entry point for writers to find wings in a crowded literary space. But how do you start, and what do you write about? Is there a 'right' way to create flash-fiction, and where do you send or publish it when it's ready to go?

In this workshop, award-winning flash-fiction polymath Gillian O'Shaughnessy takes you through the ins and outs of flash-fiction, illuminating ways in which to write, dream and uniquely express yourself. Along the way, she'll show you all that sometimes a few words are all you need to create a stirring, compelling piece of work.

Tea and biscuits will be provided.

BIO:

Gillian O’Shaughnessy is an award-winning author of flash fiction. She has won the London Independent Story Prize, the UK Welkin Mini, the UK Reflex Award, the Writing WA Love to Read Local Prize and she has twice won the US Fractured Literary Anthology Prize. She’s been shortlisted in Bath, Bridport and the Oxford flash fiction awards. Her work has been widely anthologised in Australia and internationally. Her stories were selected for the International Best Small Fictions in 2023 and 2024 and she has been twice nominated for the US Pushcart Prize. She is a submissions editor for the US flash fiction journal, SmokeLong Quarterly.