Create unforgettable stories in just one page—or less.

For Memoir, Fiction, and Nonfiction
Included in the Season Pass

Short forms are the best training ground for learning how stories really work. Micro memoir and flash fiction sharpen every essential craft skill—precision, structure, and impact—in the smallest possible space. Their brevity invites experimentation, but their simplicity can be deceptive: the most successful short works achieve the same depth, resonance, and emotional force of much longer pieces. 

Through close readings and craft analysis, participants will examine a range of outstanding examples and discover the techniques that make short-form writing so delicious and so powerful. Explore how writers use compression, implication, and language to create memorable stories in remarkably small spaces and how they create narrative momentum, develop character, manage time, and deliver satisfying endings. 

Whether you’re writing micro memoir or flash fiction or want to apply these techniques to longer works, this session will illuminate the craft principles that allow a few carefully chosen words to carry extraordinary weight.

In this webinar, you will:

• IDENTIFY essential characteristics of successful micro memoirs and flash fiction
• EXAMINE how compression, selection, and omission create emotional and narrative power
• ANALYZE exemplary short-form works to understand the craft decisions behind their impact
• EXPLORE strategies for building character, tension, and narrative movement in limited space
• LEARN how openings, endings, and structural turns function differently in compressed forms
• GAIN a deeper understanding of how short forms can serve as your training ground, sharpen your prose, and strengthen larger writing projects

This webinar is best for writers at all levels who…

• are actively drafting or revising work for workshop, submission, or publication
• want greater control over structure, voice, and narrative impact at the sentence and scene level
• are curious about—or already working in—compressed forms
• feel their stories are too diffuse or overextended and want strategies for tightening and intensifying
• want to understand how accomplished short-form writers achieve depth, resonance, and emotional force 
• want to study storytelling at its most distilled and precise

Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔

ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER

Dr. Heather Sellers has been teaching for over thirty years, and she doesn’t teach like anyone else. Her classes are innovative and groundbreaking, and students describe them as fun, lively, and warm—the kind of workshop where you laugh out loud and walk away having learned an enormous amount. 

She is the author of You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, a popular memoir about family and face blindness. An Oprah Book-of-the-Month Club selection and Editor’s Choice at the New York Times Book Review, the award-winning book was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Dick Gordon’s The Story, Dateline, The Today Show, and Good Morning America with George Stephanopoulos. Her essays appear in The New York Times, The Sun, Reader’s Digest, Good Housekeeping, The Best American Essays, and numerous journals and anthologies. She is the author of four books on the craft of writing, including The Practice of Creative Writing.

Her fifth collection of poetry, Women in Tampa Talking About Alligators, is just out from Lynx House Press. Currently, she is a member of the MFA faculty at the University of South Florida, where she won the university’s highest teaching award. She also offers in-person workshops and private lessons for writers at all levels.

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