Enrolling now for my next online flash fiction workshop, May 1 – June 1, 2018 My new online workshop, Experimental Writing Exercises for Wild Flash Fiction, begins May 1st and runs for one month. This course will be all about creative experimentation! You’ll be writing from various unusual exercises created to expand the way you […]
Read “The Bug Man” by Meg Pokrass at Tin House
Life is real enough. Why make your stories conform? Let them live in dreams. The 4-week course will be held in 2 secret Facebook groups. Details: $80 for 4 weeks. Dates: November 10th – December 10th, 2017. For more information or to sign up for this course you can e-mail me with subject line “Shuffle […]
“Make up a story, screw around with it, paste junk on it, needle the characters, make them say queer stuff, go bad places, insert new people at inopportune moments, do some drive-bys.” – Frederick Barthelme The 4-week course will be held in 2 secret Facebook groups. Details: $80 for 4 weeks. Dates: November 10th – […]
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Coming this SPRING, 2016! The Dog Looks Happy Upside Down a new collection of flash fiction by Meg Pokrass will be available from Etruscan Press. “The people in these stories need Meg Pokrass. Their lives are tough but her imagination is the fire-lasso that can save them, save us. In her work, off-kilter is the […]