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People dream of writing books but often are intimidated by what they imagine is the sheer size of the project - but how about a six-word story?!

 

Flash fiction is a genre that’s perhaps best suited for our times --- a story could be the size of a single Facebook post, or even a tweet. A typical flash is about 1000 words long --- two double spaced typed pages, but there are journals and anthologies that publish stories just 300 and 100 words long. There's even a subgenre of a six-word story (the famous example is Hemingway's: For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.).

 

Olga Zilberbourg '20, Consulting Editor of Narrative Magazine, will discuss the joy of flash fiction, provide recommendations on where to look for excellent short-shorts, and share a simple "how-to" for creating a flash fiction story of your own.

 

Narrative Magazine,

 

Like Water and Other Stories Bare Life ReviewScoundrel TimeAlaska Quarterly ReviewFeminist Studies ConfrontationWorld Literature TodayTin House’s The Open BarNarrative MagazineLit HubThe BelieverSan Francisco ChronicleElectric LiteratureThe CommonNarrative MagazinePunctured Lines

 

 

Olga Zilberbourg's collection LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES (WTAW Press, 2019) "up-ends expectation and offers a distinctive voice," according to Alicia J. Rouverol of The Manchester Review, and Anna Kasradze of The Moscow Times notes protagonists whose "identity that is always in flux, transitioning between various contexts such as emigration, motherhood, partnership, and employment." This is her first book to appear in English. Raised in Leningrad-St. Petersburg, Russia, she has published three collections of stories in Russia. Her short fiction has appeared in and is forthcoming from Bare Life Review, Scoundrel Time, Alaska Quarterly Review, Feminist Studies, Confrontation, World Literature Today, Tin House’s The Open Bar, Narrative Magazine, and other print and online publications. Essays and book reviews have been in Lit Hub, The Believer, San Francisco Chronicle, Electric Literature, The Common, and elsewhere. She serves as a consulting editor at Narrative Magazine and as a co-facilitator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop, as well as a co-founder Punctured Lines, a feminist blog about Russian Literature. She holds an MA degree in Comparative Literature from San Francisco State University and a BS in International Business from RIT.

If you have any questions, please contact Kelly Redder at kelly.redder@rit.edu.

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