Make sure to get your best flash pieces to us by April 1st in order to be considered for our forthcoming anthlogy. See Submissions for more information.
FAST FORWARD AT THE AWP CONFERENCE!
Come check out our panel and our table at the bookfair!
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 10:30-11:45
S127: Flash Fiction: How and Why to Teach It
(Kona Morris, Tom Hazuka, Robert Shapard, Kim Chinquee, Leah Rogin-Roper)
Continental B, Hilton Chicago, Lobby Level
If we can accept that flash fiction is indeed its own distinct genre, then a discussion remains about how and why to teach it. Does it deserve its own course? What is the flash canon? How can the conventions of poetry and prose apply? What does the accessibility of its short form offer the classroom? In this panel, a variety of instructors, from MFA directors to adjuncts, as well as writers and editors specializing in the genre, will discuss the methodology and canon for teaching flash fiction.
