FAST FORWARD AT THE AWP!
Fast Forward Editor and Co-founder Kona Morris will be representing the press at the 2012 AWP Conference in Chicago! Come out to see her on the panel with other important editors and educators of the flash fiction genre (www.awpwriter.org/conference/2012awpconf.php).
Here’s the information:
Event Title:
Flash Fiction: How and Why to Teach It
Event Participants:
Kona Morris
Jayne Anne Phillips
Tom Hazuka
Robert Shapard
Kim Chinquee
Event Description:
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.
