REPLAY | The Magic of Micro Prose: Find Your Story in 300 Words or Less
May 1 – May 31 EDT
Unlock your storytelling potential and share your words with captivating brevity.
REPLAY INCLUDES : VIDEO, CHAT SCRIPT, AUDIO FILE, SLIDES, HANDOUT, AND TRANSCRIPT & MORE
Micro prose—stories told in 300 words or less—provides an opportunity for more, not less. Learn how this short but versatile form can amplify your creative nonfiction work (memoir and personal essay) and even poetry and fiction.
We’ll look at examples of micro in the world, how you can begin writing micro right away, and submission opportunities as you ready your work for the world. Darien will share her methods for drafting and crafting micro prose, and lead an in-class exercise so you can try it for yourself.
If you’ve ever been curious about micro, now’s a great time to add this powerful form to your writer’s toolbox.
In this webinar, you will:
- LEARN about micro prose and its storytelling superpowers
- EXPLORE micro prose possibilities for creative nonfiction, fiction or poetry projects
- CONSIDER submission and publication options for your own micro prose work
This webinar is ideal for writers who …
- want to explore new ways to generate material
- are interested in learning more about short-form writing
- are ready to experiment with different ways of telling a story
- want to publish short work as they write toward longer projects
- want to deepen their literary craft
Closed captioning is available. ✔
All registrants receive the recording. ✔
ABOUT YOUR PRESENTER
Darien Hsu Gee is an international bestselling author published by Penguin Random House and the third Mark Twain Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Connecticut, following Alexander Chee and Justin Torres. Her work spans genres, from novels translated into eleven languages to award-winning micro prose and poetry collections. She is the executive editor of Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World (IPPY Silver Award) and the author of Allegiance (IPPY Bronze Award), Other Small Histories (Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship), and Writing the Hawaiʻi Memoir (Ka Palapala Poʻokela Award of Excellence).
A recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant and a Vermont Studio Center fellowship, Darien teaches creative nonfiction at UCLA Extension and Hugo House. She also leads specialized micro prose workshops through her platform, Writer-ish, and publishes two Substacks: Writer-ish, focused on the art of micro prose, and Drafts, Deals & Detours, a real-time look at the working writer’s life.
Her service to the literary community includes board work with Short Reads and Flash Fiction Institute.
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