This class is open to students who have completed at least two sessions of flash fiction at Writers Studio.

Flash fiction asks a lot of a writer: compression, urgency, voice, structure, and emotional force, all in under 1,000 words. This eight-week class is designed for students who want to move beyond the basics and explore how very short fiction can become sharper, more powerful, intimate, and complete.

Each week, students will study a contemporary flash fiction model, then write a new, complete prose piece inspired by that writer’s technique. We’ll look closely at persona, narrative stance, structure, form, literary devices and the choices that allow a short piece to carry the weight of a much larger story.

Class Structure & Details

•Format: Weekly, unrecorded live classes via Zoom

•What to Expect: During the weekly, two-and a half-hour Zoom session, students will share their work and receive critiques from classmates and the teacher. The final fifteen minutes will be devoted to reading and discussing the following week’s model, using The Writers Studio method of analyzing persona and narrative technique.

•Who Can Join:This class is open to students who have completed at least two sessions of Online Flash Fiction at The Writers Studio.

📌 Note: Our Zoom sessions are highly interactive and designed to be a safe space for sharing fresh work, so they are not recorded.

Placement Note: Students who have taken three or more terms of a six-week class are eligible for Level 2 or an Intermediate class.

Instructor

Writers Studio Teacher

Andrea Marcusa

Andrea Marcusa’s literary fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Gettysburg Review, Citron Review, Baltimore Review, Raleigh Review and other publications. She’s received recognition for her writing in a range of competitions, including Smokelong, Cleaver, Southampton Review, Raleigh Review and others. Andrea began her career in newspapers and magazines where she earned bylines with The Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, and Glamour magazine. Her memoirs have been published in various collections, including In the Fullness of Time(Simon and Schuster). She studied English at University of London and Vassar College where she earned a B.A. Currently, she divides her time between creating literary works, teaching, and traveling to Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia. She is a member of The Writer’s Studio Master Class where she studies with Philip Schultz.

"Every week, I presented a new story. Finally something did click, the very thing that’s their specialty at The Writers Studio, emotional content. Before, my work was dead. When I brought in my breakthrough story, I felt I was carrying a weird animal in my bag. It was the first story I sold."

Jennifer Egan, former Writers Studio student, Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

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