In this hands-on workshop, we’ll take a brief look at flash fiction, nonfiction prose and service pieces. You’ll learn the techniques for wrangling a few hundred words and discover the markets that publish short pieces. We’ll talk about compressing plot and characterization and how to economize on words. You’ll leave with handouts and brimming with ideas.
About the instructor:
Lori DeBoer is the founder of the Boulder Writers’ Workshop and works as an independent writing teacher and coach. One of her short stories was top-25 finalist for a Glimmer Train Fiction Open Contest. Her essays on writing have been published in Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts, Keep It Real: Everything You’ve Wanted to Know About Research and Writing Creative Nonfiction and A Million Little Choices: The ABCs of CNF. She has had more than a thousand articles and essays published in newspapers, magazines and literary journals, including The Bellevue Literary Review, The New York Times, Arizona Highways, Working Woman, America West Airlines Magazine, Black Enterprise, PHOENIX Magazine and more.
Lori has helped hundreds of writers fulfill their publishing goals. Her client awards have included: Finalist, Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction; The Glyph Award; First Place, North American Travel Journalists Association; Salon Editor’s Pick; Finalist, Tin House Literary Award; Finalist, Southwest Writers contest; Colorado Book Award; First Place, Society of Professional Journalists; Third Place, CIPA EVVY Award for Spiritual Writing and more. Her clients have been published in the following general interest magazines and literary magazines: Wend, Women’s Health, 5280, Arizona Highways, Sunset, Men’s Journal, Outside, Backpacker, Go World Travel, Heartlands, The Arizona Republic, The Coachella Review, Runner’s World, Salon and more.
She lives with her husband and son in Boulder, Colorado.
-$20 General Admission (including Boulder Writers’ Workshop Meetup members
-Free to Standard and Professional Members of the Boulder Writers’ Workshop
Standard Membership is $35 a year and Professional Membership is $75 a year, and perks include all of the free workshops in the Writers-at-Work Series. To join as a full-fledged member, please CLICK HERE.
Space is limited and preregistration closes at 11 p.m. the evening before the workshop.
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