NEA Big Read Writing Workshop The Micro Memoir—Life in a Flash Saturdays, April 12 & April 19, 2025 | 2-4:30 pm Free and open to all. Two part workshop. Plan to attend both dates. Location: San Diego Writers, Ink 2730 Historic Decatur Road, Suite 204
San Diego, CA 92106 Description: Within the fast-growing atmosphere of hybrid forms of literature and somewhere between the six-word memoir and the book-length memoir stands the Micro Memoir. Often called Flash Memoir or Memoir in Fragments, these tiny, beautiful stories aren’t life squeezed down to fit into a few pages (or less), but a captured moment in a life that opens into deeper, meaningful insights into the human experience. April 12th - Part I: In the first of this two-part workshop, we’ll study the genre and read published examples of these small stories—those complete within a single sentence to those made up of a few hundred words—from writers such as Abigail Thomas, Maggie Nelson, and Carmen Maria Machado. Then we’ll pick up our pens (or open our laptops) and working from prompts and generative writing explorations, create stories of our own. April 19th - Part II: Participants will have an opportunity to bring their edited Micro or Flash Memoirs to the workshop for reader response and comments from other participants and the instructor. Participants must have attended Part I to join in Part II. Following the workshops, a Showcase will be staged for writers to read their completed Micro Memoirs. | 
