David Beaty
Writing Short SHORT Stories: The Art of Abbreviation
8 weeks: Thursdays, February 4 - March 25, 2010, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
$170 (Current MDC faculty and credit students: $120)

Course will take place at Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
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Flash fiction? Sudden, mini, micro, postcard, short-short? These are names for very short stories, between 250 and 1,750 words long. The genre is experimental, the word length variable. In this workshop we’ll investigate very short stories, and we’ll write our own. We’ll read and discuss anecdotes, scenes, advertisements, jokes, parables, prose poems, and very short fiction by established writers such as Hemingway, Peter Altenberg, and Jayne Anne Phillips. Expect writing exercises in workshop, and be prepared to bring in your own very short fiction to be discussed.

David Beaty has lived and worked in Greece, England and Brazil. A graduate of Columbia College, he earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Florida International University, where he was a recipient of the Josephine Friedman Award For Fiction. His short stories have appeared in Miami Noir, Unbound Press, Having A Wonderful Time, and other anthologies and literary journals. His short story, "Ghosts," was chosen for The Best American Mystery Stories 2000; and, most recently, his story, "The Last Of Lord Jitters," received honorable mention in The Best American Mystery Stories 2007, edited by Carl Hiaasen.

Date and Time
Thursdays
February 4 - March 25, 2010
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Fee
$170, pre-registration required
(Current MDC faculty staff and students: $120)

This is a Community Education (non-credit) course.

Want to register? Click here for instructions and registration form.