Kathy Fish

Flash Magic: Conjuring Beauty & Originality

Three Hour Pre Festival workshop 2.00 pm-5.00 pm Friday 18th July: with Kathy Fish

(Note:This workshop is separate from the main weekend package and is also open to those not coming to the rest of the fesitval Cost £55. Book here via the booking form Booking options also available on this form for Friday meals (5.00 pm to 6.00 pm).

Anyone attending the pre-festival workshop can also come to Friday evening events.

Kathy says: I’m often told by students of my workshops that I’m a “magician,” because somehow, I have drawn powerful, resonant writing from them they never thought they were capable of. Flattering as that is, it’s simply not the case! Although I do have a pretty nifty bag of tricks, the REAL magic comes from the writers themselves. Amazing things happen when we learn to trust ourselves and just…play. How to spin words into gold? In this three-hour session, we’ll write to tried and true prompts that have sparked scores of published and award-winning flash over the past decade. We’ll also read and draw inspiration from the very best examples of the form. Expect to come away with several dazzling drafts only you could write.

Kathy Fish’s stories have been widely published in journals, anthologies, and textbooks. Her work has been published in Ploughshares, Guernica, Swamp Pink, Electric Literature, Denver Quarterly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, the Norton Reader, and Norton’s Flash Fiction America (2023). She has been honored with a Copper Nickel Editor’s Prize and multiple appearances in both the Wigleaf Top 50 and the Best Small Fictions series. The author of five short fiction collections, Fish teaches a variety of writing workshops online. She also publishes a bestselling craft newsletter, The Art of Flash Fiction, which was recently named one of the 20 Best Creative Writing Substacks by Writers at Work. Her writing has been generously supported by fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation and the Kerouac Project.