National Flash Fiction Month: 30 Short Stories in 30 Days 4-Week Online Workshop, Starts Tuesday, July 1st, 2025
Celebrate National Flash Fiction Month!
Class Starts Tuesday, July 1st, 2025
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Led by Holly Lyn Walrath is a writer, editor, and publisher. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Analog, and Flash Fiction Online. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Glimmerglass Girl (2018), Numinose Lapidi (2020), and The Smallest of Bones (2021). She holds a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. In 2019, she launched Interstellar Flight Press, an indie SFF publisher dedicated to publishing underrepresented genres and voices.
This generative workshop is chock full of 30 writing prompts for short story writers.
Whether you write micro fiction, flash fiction, or short stories, these 30 prompts are meant to inspire and support you in this unique writing challenge. You've heard of NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month), where poets write 30 poems in 30 days, and you've probably heard of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), where writers try to write a novel in a month.
Now, you can do the same with short stories. Whether you're writing to a specific theme, assembling stories for a collection, or want to try writing a series of connected stories, this workshop will explore new contemporary structures like The Tryptich or The Wikipedia Entry.
Open to writers of all genres--from realism to memoir to speculative fiction.
Note: For this class, you will not be required to submit peer critiques since the goal is to generate new work. However, the instructor will give feedback to each student, and there will be an opportunity to upload your stories for accountability.
COURSE OUTLINE:
Week 1: Finding Your Voice
Week 2: Writing Memorable Stories
Week 3: You Are Your Audience
Week 4: Write What You Love, Love What You Write
- Challenge yourself to write 30 stories in 30 days
- Dive into seven writing prompts each week
- Learn about hooks, twists, and turns
- Explore unique structures for short stories
- Learn about the craft of short fiction
- Get inspired by the work of contemporary short story writers
- Celebrate Flash Fiction Month
ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:
This class is asynchronous, meaning you complete the weekly assignments on your own schedule. There are no set meeting times in order to allow for greater participation; your cohort will consist of writers from across different time zones, which allows for a wonderful diversity of voices.
Along with your weekly deadlines, there is plenty of interaction with Holly and your peers within Wet Ink, our dedicated online classroom. Craft materials, lectures, reading assignments, and writing prompts are all available through the online classroom. Students also post work and provide and receive feedback within the online classroom environment.
You can finish the work as you see fit week-to-week, which is perfect for any schedule. There are discussion questions each week inspired by the assigned readings and topics in the lecture notes. Students are encouraged to take these wherever is most compelling and/or useful for them. Holly engages with these discussions throughout the week, and you will receive feedback from all assigned writing activities.
HOW DOES WET INK WORK?
Wet Ink was built and designed specifically for online writing classes. Wet Ink is private, easy to use, and very interactive. You can learn more about the Wet Ink platform by Watching a Class Demo.
ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:
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Instructor: Holly Lyn Walrath
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Starts Tuesday, July 1st, 2025
- Course is fully ONLINE; students can work according to their own schedule within weekly deadlines. Once you have enrolled the instructor will send you a link to our online classroom, provided via Wet Ink.