Writing Flash Fiction: A One-Day Zoom Intensive with Robert Anthony Siegel, Saturday, March 22nd, 2025
Live Seminar Via Zoom Saturday, March 22nd, 2025
Class will meet 12PM - 5:00PM Eastern
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Instructor Robert Anthony Siegel is the author of a memoir, Criminals, and two novels, All Will Be Revealed and All the Money in the World. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Paris Review, The Drift, The Oxford American, and Ploughshares, and has been anthologized in Best American Essays 2023, O. Henry Stories 2014, and Pushcart Prize XXXVI. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan, a Mombukagakusho Fellow in Japan, a Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a Paul Engle Fellow at the Iowa Writers Workshop. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop.
Just a page or two in length, flash fiction is quick and easy to learn, yet endlessly rich and challenging to practice. Its singular power is the sense of imaginative freedom at its core—the “flash.” World renowned writers like Kafka and Kawabata have done some of their most evocative work in the genre.
Can't Make It Live?
No problem! The session will be recorded and available to watch after the seminar concludes.
- Read published flash fiction
- Write in-class exercises
- Share work with the group
- The role of conflict in creating story
- The power of image and metaphor
- The relationship between text and subtext
- 4 in-class exercises to take home and revise
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A list of ideas for ten others
Open to all levels of experience, no preparation needed. Come ready to talk, ask questions, write short in-class exercises, and share with the group.
TESTIMONIALS:
"Full of richly drawn characters and jolting plot twists—Glasser’s time behind bars is especially chilling—Siegel’s debut novel works both as a parable of how quickly the high and mighty can fall, and as gripping drama. 'Money' well spent." -NEW YORK POST on ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD
"Early in this novel, there is a wonderful scene—rich with embarrassment—in which Louis Glasser, the altogether unlikely hero, helps his Harvard-educated son buy a new suit. The son’s fortunes founder, but that’s nothing compared to the perils that overwhelm his father—a lawyer who operates on the margins and becomes the target of a criminal investigation. Siegel’s … portraits (loving and otherwise) of the Glassers, New York prosecutors, and various lowlifes are right on the money." -THE NEW YORKER on ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD
"...Well-turned and elegant...Gloriously complex..." -ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION on ALL WILL BE REVEALED
"...A richly detailed and seedily seductive narrative." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY on ALL WILL BE REVEALED
"Robert's unique skill as a teacher comes from his enthusiasm not only for talking, which is present in many talented professors, but for listening... He has a reputation for being the best kind of teacher: generous, knowledgeable, demanding, and always at the ready with excellent advice." -former student
"The level of discourse was challenging and interesting and I think part of the reason for that was the casual atmosphere of discussion, fostered by Robert. When people are allowed to speak in an open, non-threatening environment, wonderful things happen." -former student
ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:
Live Seminar Via Zoom on Saturday, March 22nd, 2025. Class will meet 12PM - 5:00PM Eastern.
PAYMENT OPTIONS:
- Instructor: Robert Anthony Siegel
- Live Seminar Via Zoom on Saturday, March 22nd, 2025.
- Class will meet 12PM - 5:00PM Eastern.
- Tuition is $99.
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