Microfiction Workshops & More with Meg Pokrass
Meg Pokrass, Grant Faulkner, Flash Fiction InstitutePaid subscribers can participate in a private "submissions support group" on a bi-monthly basis. "Calm Down and Write: group for paid subscribers, 5PM EST, all Wednesdays. Paid subscribers receive $10 off on my workshops. Prompts and feedback.
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Microfiction Workshop: "Messy Love" Micros
Dates: August 13th-16th, 2026
In this asynchronous workshop held in a private Facebook group, participants will be writing stories on the theme of messy (ie dangerous, unwise, irrational, invisible, surreally beautiful but impossible,...
My List of Flash Fiction Writing Tips
There’s no formula to writing a successful flash, but the special ones feel as if they spring from a very real place—from the core of who the writer is, and how they see the world. They always have the quality of honesty and fearlessness....
Prompt from "The Aria" by William Bronk (and an alternate prompt below)
Inspired by “The Aria” by William Bronk, write a microfiction or prose poem about a character or couple who move to (or visit) a city filled with bad luck, or which seems perpetually flawed. The idea is that a specific place, even an imagin...
O, Mysterious Ending (from the archives)
Please feel free to chime in in the comments below!
I enjoy thinking about what makes endings to stories so hard to pin down. After reading hundreds and hundreds of stories for Best Microfiction every year it has become ever more clear to...
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Meg Pokrass’ is the author of 9 flash collections. She is the Founding Co-Editor of Best Microfiction anthology series and teaches online flash fiction workshops here: https://megpokrass.substack.com/
Grant Faulkner is the co-host of the Memoir Nation podcast, Executive Producer of America’s Next Great Author, the co-founder of 100 Word Story, and the author of The Art of Brevity.
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