Retreat West Flash Fiction Festival

Saturday 17th September
Online event

14.00 – 15.00 Workshop

Collaborative Flash Writing with Meg Pokrass and Rosie Garland

Discover the creative potential of working with another writer. A workshop exploring the creative duet of collaborative writing, and how and where to begin. Using a variety of readings and discussion, Meg Pokrass & Rosie Garland will introduce participants to collaborative writing. Their collaborative flash fictions have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize & Best Small Fictions 2022. They will draw on their own experience of building a successful writing partnership, with insights on how it can be done. With plenty of time for participants’ questions, they will reflect on the positives & potential pitfalls of writing collaboratively – not forgetting the sheer darn fun.

Meg is the author of six flash fiction collections, an award-winning collection of prose poetry, two novellas-in-flash and a collection of microfiction, ‘Spinning to Mars’ – recipient of the Blue Light Book Award in 2020. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Washington Square Review, Wigleaf, Waxwing and McSweeney’s. She is the Series Founder and Co-Editor of Best Microfiction.

Writer and singer with post-punk band The March Violets, Rosie writes poetry, prose and things that fall between & outside. Her latest collection ‘What Girls do the Dark’ (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2021, & Val McDermid has named her one of the UK’s most compelling LGBT+ writers. Her story “The Hanging of Game Birds” was selected for inclusion in Best Microfiction 2021.

https://www.retreatwest.co.uk/online-flash-fest/

Best Microfiction 2021 – anthology launch

July 10th 2021
Online – free event

The Best Microfiction team have a virtual BOOK LAUNCH EVENT on July 10, 2021. This event will be available to the world at large via Facebook and is located here: https://www.facebook.com/events/768528077199954

I’ll be reading my winning Micro fiction ‘The Correct Hanging of Game Birds’ (first published in X-R-A-Y. Read it here! https://xraylitmag.com/the-correct-hanging-of-game-birds-by-rosie-garland/fiction/ ) & you can watch the video at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjGUdmofYAnRkCoknEoGrRQ

Discount codes will be available for the anthology throughout the Book Launch Event. Purchase on the day to receive a discount. On the day of the release, the ebook will also be available for immediate download.

http://bestmicrofiction.com/books.html