We want our flash fiction to sizzle, so we can hear the pops of oil in the pan, smell seasonings rising up to our noses, and feel bustle in the kitchen where the meal is a snapshot of characters’ broader lives. Writers of longer prose sometimes use tactics that work for novels, but don’t work as well for flash. We’ll read flash fiction examples and work on writing exercises, studying how to lead with action, seeing different hooks, and examining endings that leave readers with bursting flavors in their mouths.
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HEIDI KASA is the author of the poetry collection The Bullet Takes Forever (Mouthfeel Press), the flash fiction collection The Beginners, winner of the 2023 Digging Press Chapbook Contest, and the fiction chapbook Split (Monday Night Press). She received the 2024 Plaza Prose Poetry Prize and the 2023 Poetry Super Highway Prize. Her writing was a finalist or shortlisted for Best of the Net, Fractured Lit, Black Lawrence Press, Plentitudes, Plaza, and ESWA Crossroads contests. She works as an editor in Austin. Find her at www.heidikasa.com.