Flash registration is now closed.
Check out past Flash Fiction craft talk series with Tara Campbell and Yvette Lisa Ndlovu.
Write and submit a new flash fiction story each week, learn a variety of critique methods, exchange critiques with peers, and receive guidance to sharpen your storytelling skills—all in a supportive, small-group setting.
Dates: June 3 – July 3, 2026
Structure:
- Small writing groups (5-7 writers)
- Four weekly pre-recorded video lectures covering writing and how to give feedback
- Four weekly emailed story prompts to ignite your creativity
- Access to a private Discord channel for a seamless story-sharing experience.
- Back by popular demand: First week stories (submit your first story on June 12th)
New this year:
Included in registration are two live office hour sessions with this year’s Flash Fiction Mastermind Juan Martinez. These drop-in sessions are designed to give you a chance to ask questions, talk about your writing, and meet other participating writers. We’ll have small group breakout rooms based on genre and timezone available.
- June 13, 2:00 - 3:30 PM Pacific
- June 27, 10:00 - 11:30 AM Pacific
This program provides flexibility and accountability: watch classes and write stories on your own time, while getting the challenge of meeting deadlines. Plus, giving and receiving feedback strengthens your storytelling skills—refining your ability to identify key elements that make stories stick with readers.
Whether you're looking to polish your flash fiction skills, connect with other writers, or enjoy the thrill of weekly creative challenges, join the Flash Fiction Groups and write with us this summer!
About this year's Flash Fiction Mastermind
Juan Martinez
Juan Martinez (CW instructor '25) is the author of the novel Extended Stay, released in January 2023 from the University of Arizona Press’s Camino del Sol series. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called it “a fresh and stunning debut.” The novel was shortlisted for the Chicago Review of Books prize, was a New York Public Library book of the day, and was one of Crimereads and Tor.com’s best horror novels of the year. His short-story collection Best Worst American was released in 2017 by Small Beer Press and won the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for debut speculative fiction. His work has appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including EPOCH, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, The Believer, The Chicago Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, Conjunctions, NIGHTMARE, Huizache, Small Odysseys, The Sunday Morning Transport, NPR’s Selected Shorts, Ecotone, Shenandoah, Sudden Fiction Latino, and Norton's Flash Fiction America, and is forthcoming in the Latinx horror anthology Ghosts Where We Are From.
Thank you, Flash Fiction Sponsors!
For contributing access to your classes to the annual Membership.
Whitney Beltrán
Amy Bishop-Wycisk
Marie Brennan
Ashley Christine
Robin Jeffrey
Fonda Lee
Henry Lein
Sarena Ulibarri
Susan J. Morris
Benjamin Rosenbaum
Emma Törzs
Dawn Vogel
More coming soon....