Writing Funny Flashes
with Karen Jones
Writing Funny Flashes, with Karen Jones
An online generative writing workshop.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
If you missed Karen's workshop of the Flash Fiction Festival, come and join her for some micro merriment at The Flash Cabin!
Many writers think they can’t write humour, especially flash writers, because flash is so often seen as dark, sad, bleak, but I believe everyone can write humour if they find a way to get into it. In this workshop, we won’t be analysing what’s funny or studying funny stories – what people find funny is too diverse to be sorted into boxes that way. This is intended to be a fun, generative workshop full of prompts and exercises to get you creating characters to people funny flashes and situations that can easily lead to humour. What’s the worst that could happen? Usually something hilarious.
DATE
Saturday, March 18th
TIME
2 - 4 GMT
COST
Pay what you can
£0, £5, £10, £20
FORMAT
Live Zoom session
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Karen Jones is a flash and short fiction writer from Glasgow, Scotland. Her flashes have been nominated for Best of the Net and The Pushcart Prize, and her story Small Mercies was included in Best Small Fictions 2019. In 2021, she won first prize in the Cambridge Flash Prize, Flash 500 and Reflex Fiction and was shortlisted for To Hull and Back, Bath Flash Fiction and Bath Short Story Award. Her novella-in-flash When It’s Not Called Making Love is published by Ad Hoc Fiction. She is Special Features Editor at New Flash Fiction Review and an editor for National Flash Fiction Day anthology.
Twitter - @karjon