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Upcoming Workshops
In Short Order: Finding Form in Flash Fiction with Kathryn Kulpa
This four-session workshop will introduce you to a range of flash fiction forms–from the shortest pieces, such as 50-word dribbles and 100-word drabbles, to microfiction (400 words or fewer), flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer), and short-short stories (under 2,000 words). We’ll learn how to apply poetic techniques like anaphora, metaphor, lists, and short sections to create vivid, memorable stories that prove less is more.
Link for more info: https://geminiink.org/events/finding-form-in-flash-fiction/
Monday(s), April 6, 13, 20 & 27, 6:30pm – 8:30pm CT online via Zoom
Nonmember: $200; Member $170; Student/Educ/Mil: $140
*EARN CPEs; TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE
In-person: Flash Fiction Writing Workshop at Barrington Library
Join local short fiction author and librarian, Kate Kulpa, for this two-part Flash Fiction Writing Workshop on Thursday, May 7 and Thursday, May 14 at 6:30 pm.
What is flash fiction, you ask? Flash fiction is a fictional work of extreme brevity (think, very short story) that still offers character and plot development. In your first session, you will be introduced to flash fiction and will participate in a few writing prompts and exercises. Kate will then send you home with some prompts to work on so you can come back to the second session with some flash fiction pieces of your own to share.
Notebooks, pens, and pencils will be provided but feel free to bring your own!
Free and open to adults. Registration is required. Attendance is expected for both sessions.
About Your Instructor
Kathryn Kulpa is the author of the flash fiction collection A Map of Lost Places (Gold Line Press) and flash chapbook For Every Tower, a Princess (Porkbelly Press). Kathryn’s work has been chosen for Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and the Wigleaf Top 50 longlist and nominated for Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize. Kathryn is an editor at Cleaver magazine and has stories in Boudin, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, 100 Word Story, and Wigleaf. She was awarded a 2026 Grant for Creative Individuals from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and has been a Writer in Residence at Linden Place and the Ames Free Library. Find her at kathrynkulpa.com and follow her newsletter, Mostly Flash, Mostly Fiction, at kathrynk.substack.com.
- Dates & Times:
- 6:30pm – 8:00pm, Thursday, May 7, 2026
6:30pm – 8:00pm, Thursday, May 14, 2026 - Audience: Adults
Registrations open at 10:00am Friday, April 3, 2026
CHOPPED! Flash and Micro Marathon (Watch for a remix coming soon!)
This intense online session, hosted on Zoom, will test your writing mettle with a nonstop series of flash and micro writing challenges—some as short as 5 minutes, others up to 30 minutes. Write against the clock and banish writer’s block! Creative and open-ended prompts will encourage you to play with words, form, and images. You should leave this workshop energized and inspired, with up to six flash or micro drafts or beginnings. While all the prompts are different, writers can continue work they start in one timed prompt with the next one, so if you are working on a novel, novella, or themed collection, this workshop could be a good way to dive in.
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Friday, March 6, 2:30 to 4 PM ET
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$60
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Held on Zoom
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Register at Cleaver Magazine
Hit the Ground Running
Summer Sessions
Cleaver Magazine – online
One week flash fiction intensive
Cohort 1: June 21-29, 2025
Cohort 2: August 2-10, 2025
$300 – enroll here.
These classes may be repeated in summer 2026. Watch for updates.
Recorded Class – Purchase at Cleaver Magazine
Writing doesn’t stop when you pen the final line, or even when you make the final revision. If you’ve written a flash story, and it’s wonderful, you probably want it to be published so you can share it with the world—but first, there’s that pesky process called “submissions.” This class will help writers at all levels untangle the sometimes daunting process of taking your flash and microfiction from private to public.
PURCHASE RECORDING
Cost: $60
Recent Workshops
Hit the Ground Running
Cleaver Magazine – online
One week flash fiction intensive
March 1-8, 2025
No Fireworks, No Ambulances: Making Your Quiet Story Shine
Cleaver Magazine – online
One Day
December 8, 2024 – 8 am to 10 pm ET
Two-Day Story Fixes Workshop with Meg Pokrass: Eyes on the (Flash) Prize
Two days only
July 28 – 29, 2004
£80 GBP (about $100 US). Enroll here.
Submit Your Flash (and Get It Published) 
Cleaver Magazine – online masterclass
Sunday, May 19, 2024, 2-4 pm ET on Zoom
$60 – enroll here.
Redheads in Art: An Ekphrastic Flash Fiction Workshop
with Lorette Luzajic & Kathryn Kulpa
Sunday, June 23, 2024 from 3 to 5 pm EST on Zoom.
$25 USD/$35 CAD – enroll here
READINGS
FBomb Online Reading Series 
Paul Beckman, curator
with guest host Francine Witte
July 7, 6 pm – on Zoom
Email wittefrancine@gmail.com for secure link
Featured readers:
Sarah Freligh with Myna Chang, Mary Grimm, and Kim Magowan
Kathryn Kulpa with Pamela Painter, Meg Pokrass, and Francine Witte
And special guests: Mikki Aronoff, Patricia Bidar, Jacqueline Doyle, and Kathryn Silver-Hajo
Barrington Public Library – in person
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