SCULPTING FLASH FICTION

July 11-July 31

Editing is the most important part of the writing process. As serious writers, you know it’s through the editing process that we begin to refine and sculpt our messages. But just as writing flash fiction requires a
different set of skills, so does editing flash fiction.

In this workshop we will use the tools of ambiguity and implication; we will learn the different between chipping and chopping; we will learn how to shrink-wrap text, and most of all learn how to achieve the specific needs of flash fiction as I guide you and other participants to edit your real works in progress.

This will be a 3-week online workshop format class with limited availability. Participants should have a basic understanding of flash fiction and come to the class with flash pieces already in progress. Each participant will have the opportunity to submit 1-2 stories per week.

I’ve been a freelance editor since 2004 as well as a co-founder and editor for the flash fiction press Fast Forward Press. I have edited four anthologies including Fast Forward: The Mix Tape, an book of flash fiction that was a finalist for a Colorado Book Award.

Tuition: $109 

Workshop runs July 11-31 (capped at 10 participants)

Contact me with questions at nancystohlman@gmail.com

As many of you may have heard, I was in a serious head-on highway collision on Friday, May 20th, landing me in the hospital for over a week with broken ribs, punctured lung and broken elbow. Truthfully, the people who Jaws of Life-ed me out of the wreckage were thrilled that I was alive at all and I’m extremely lucky that my injuries are not permanent. I’m home recovering and grateful to everyone, my friends and family and co-workers and especially Nick Busheff, who has been a rock of support.

You are not rid of me yet, but I might be skipping roller skating for a few months.

People have been asking if this will affect Fbomb events or my upcoming online workshops. I’m happy to say that everything will proceed as scheduled–Fbomb will keep bombing with no date changes (I may be hosting the Flash Festival in July in a cast but I will paint it like Wonder Woman!) and I’m looking forward to the online workshops–writing is medicine and it will be great for me to focus on writing instead of ribs.

Finally, there has been an enormous outpouring of love and generosity from my fellow writers and friends. If there was a lesson for me in all this I’m sure it was to tell me that I am loved, and it’s been humbling and amazing. Thank you all, so much. I am extremely lucky to be in community with you all.

To love, healing, and words–

Nancy

From Gay Degani’s Words In Place Blog Series:

DERAILED: Nancy Stohlman’s Interrupted Journey

 

This spot was destined for Nancy Stohlman’s Journey to Planet Write; however, fate intervened on an interstate near Denver on Friday 5/20 when she was hit head-on by another car.  She’s home now but suffered a broken elbow along with the 6 broken ribs

It just doesn’t feel right for me to fill this space with someone else’s journey and hopefully at some point in the future, Nancy will write her own story, but in the meantime, I decided to ask a few of Nancy’s friends to contribute stories, comments, photos, anything to honor Nancy.

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I will be reading at the Kozo Reading Series at The Morgan Conservatory this Friday, May 13 alongside a fabulous lineup including Barry Graham, Clarissa Jakobsons, Adam Hughes, and Leo Jarret!

Friday, May 13 at 7:30
The Morgan Conservatory
1754 East 47th Street Cleveland, OH 44103

This is also a gallery opening night, so parking may be limited, but the far back lot off 45th street should be open to accommodate.

The Morgan Conservatory is the largest arts center in the United States dedicated to every facet of papermaking, book arts and letterpress printing and to cultivating the talents of established and emerging artists. An international destination that is free and open to the public, the Morgan Conservatory is a working studio, gallery, gathering place for the community, educational hub and purveyor of some of the finest handmade papers in the world. Find out more!

Nancy Stohlman’s books include The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories, The Monster Opera, Searching for Suzi: a flash novel, and four anthologies including Fast Forward: The Mix Tape, a finalist for a 2011 Colorado Book Award. She is the creator and curator of the Fbomb Flash Fiction Reading Series in Denver, and her work was nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize. Find out more about her at http://www.nancystohlman.com

Barry Graham is the author of various things, including his latest, American Guerrillas: Manifesto. He is a four time National Tic-Tac-Toe Association champion, spiritual adviser, horror junky, food critic, conspiracy theorist, and nomad. He is the founding editor of DOGZPLOT, and currently, along with Leo Todd Jarret, runs the poetic and artistic spectacle known as the Madhouse Sessions.

Artist – instructor, Clarissa Jakobsons was twice featured poet in Paris, France at “The Shakespeare and Co. Bookstore” and was winner of the Akron Art Museum New Words Competition. She has read and published widely. Five-year Associate Editor of the Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal, she holds a B.F.A. in Visual Arts and recently had a solo art exhibition at Western Reserve Academy. She instructs creative courses at Cuyahoga Community College. Clarissa also weaves one-of-a- kind artist books, exhibited internationally as well as at the Cleveland Museum of Art Ingalls Library and the Morgan Conservatory. She writes, “Don’t be surprised to see my inner artist kicking sandcastles, climbing Mount Diablo, painting Provincetown dunes, or walking under an Ohio crescent moon.

Adam Hughes is the author of Petrichor (NYQ Books, 2010) and Uttering the Holy (NYQ Books, 2012). His collection Allow the Stars to Catch Me When I Rise is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. He was born in 1982 in Lancaster, Ohio. He still resides near there on a farm with his wife and daughter, two dogs, four cats, and four horses. Should you google him, he is not the Adam Hughes who draws near-pornographic depictions of female superheroes. He cannot draw.

Leo Jarret is an Itinerant poet and fiction writer. He founded The Madhouse Sessions, which is a poetry, music and live art series staging events all over the region, in September of 2011. He currently runs The sessions with Barry Graham.

I’m going to be part of the illustrious line-up of Denver Creatives at the 27th Annual Podeo (Poetry Rodeo) this Friday, April 22. Joining me will be my creative collaborator the infamous Nick Busheff–together we are creating a little musical/theatrical preview of my upcoming book Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities. You will be our test audience. There will be costumes!

Free admission before 7. (We will go on the 9 o’clock hour). Open mic at the end of the night!