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Flash Fiction with Weike Wang

$75.00


Single Day Workshop
Saturday, May 30th 2026 1-4PM

This writing workshop is devoted to the shortest forms of fiction. Short-form fiction is any story under 1000 words. We will consider the art of condensation, brevity, sudden stories, and micro fiction. We will read a large array of work written in both English and in English translation (Cheever, Couto, Oates, Hempel, Davis, Heti, Paley, Leitcher, Wang, etc), and for all pieces, we will discuss craft elements like structure, character, POV, dialogue, voice and style. You will come away from this workshop a sharper reader and writer of the short form. You will be given 2-3 in class exercises to practice your skill that you can share with the class.


Single Day Workshop
Saturday, May 30th 2026 1-4PM

This writing workshop is devoted to the shortest forms of fiction. Short-form fiction is any story under 1000 words. We will consider the art of condensation, brevity, sudden stories, and micro fiction. We will read a large array of work written in both English and in English translation (Cheever, Couto, Oates, Hempel, Davis, Heti, Paley, Leitcher, Wang, etc), and for all pieces, we will discuss craft elements like structure, character, POV, dialogue, voice and style. You will come away from this workshop a sharper reader and writer of the short form. You will be given 2-3 in class exercises to practice your skill that you can share with the class.

About Weike

Weike Wang is the author of CHEMISTRY (Knopf 2017), JOAN IS OKAY (Random House 2022) and RENTAL HOUSE (Riverhead 2024).  She is the recipient of a Pen Hemingway, a Whiting award and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35.  Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, Best American Short Stories and has won two O. Henry Prizes. She earned her MFA from Boston University and her other degrees from Harvard. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Barnard College and Boston University.

 

Scholarship


We are proud to offer a fully funded seat in each of our classes. To apply, send a cover letter and CV to info@littleniceworkshop.com and include the class you’d like to attend in the subject line.