Workshop: Roadmap to an (almost) perfect flash fiction story, with Finnian Burnett

Not every flash fiction piece follows a structure, but structure can always be used to create exciting stories. In this workshop, we'll discuss conflict and character to generate ideas and turn those ideas into stories following a sentence-by-sentence structural roadmap. Come prepared to write in a fun, funny, and judgement-free environment.

Finnian Burnett is a writer whose work explores the intersections of the human body, mental health, and gender identity. They are a recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts grant and a finalist in the 2023 CBC nonfiction prize. Finnian’s work appears in Blank Spaces Magazine, Geist, Pulp Literature, CBC books, and more. Their two novellas-in-flash, The Clothes Make the Man and The Price of Cookies, are available through Ad Hoc Fiction and Off Topic Publishing. Finnian lives in British Columbia and enjoys walking, Star Trek, and cat memes. Their work is represented by Stacey Kondla of The…