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Our UK contingent includes an array of wonderful writers and teachers: Susmita Bhattacharya; K.M Elkes; Carrie Etter; Vanessa Gebbie; Tania Hershman; Jude Higgins; Michael Loveday; Karen Jones; Ingrid Jendrzejewski; Meg Pokrass; Santino Prinzi; Helen Rye; Farhana Shaikh and Diane Simmons. Expect workshops, panels and talks on climate writing; flash and social commentary; summer solstice stories, visualisations, south Asian stories, sound immersion, applying for funding, publishing in online magazines, prose poetry, novellas-in-flash for the advanced writer, workshops with ingenious prompts plus a brilliantly titled workshop called Seduction not Instruction and more to come.

Our USA contingent includes the amazing writers and teachers: Kathy Fish; Nancy Stohlman; Laurie Stone; Peter Wortsman and Beth Gilstrap Expect workshops and panels on travel writing, politics and social commentary, the flash novel,festival warm-ups, lyrical writing and more. Full details soon.

Charmaine Wilkerson from Italy will chair a panel on Flash And Social Commentary.

Christopher Allen from Germany will offer an editing workshop, will take part in the panel and, of course, you will find him facilitating the karaoke.

From Cyprus, Nora Nadjarian is returning to run her early morning and extremely popular session using images for writing prompts.

Roberta Beary and Nuala 0’Connor from Ireland . Roberta is teaching a workshop on the art of the Haibun and Nuala will be teaching Historical Fiction again, this time a longer session in a pre-festival workshop on the Friday afternoon (booking for this open soon).
Kathy Fish will also be running an additional pre-festival three hour workshop on the Friday afternoon.

Full details about all these workshops and more not yet confirmed will be on the workshop page soon.