The Freaky Flash Workshop
Learn the craft of super short horror and write four new pieces of flash in our 'Scary Story Sprint'
Hi, Forever Workshoppers!
Welcome to The Freaky Flash Collection with Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, where we will write four pieces of scary good flash fiction.
Each lesson, we’ll focus on a different craft tool we can wield to create bite-sized fiction that haunts, lingers, challenges, frightens, and more. Then we’ll put that tool to use through original prompts designed to really activate the creative juices.
And by the end of the workshop, you’ll have four freaky pieces of flash to submit to journals and a brand new appreciation of how to use horror techniques in your writing.
Takeaways:
Develop a range of literary horror craft skills to apply to your flash fiction
Learn how to build immersive horror worlds and unsettling atmospheres
Play with sensory details and manipulate time to freaky effect
Borrow cinematic devices from classic horror films
And explore what makes effective eco-horror and take inspiration from the literal horrors around us
Using masterful examples and generative prompts, we’ll explore a range of tips and techniques to craft super short horror that will haunt your readers forever…
Join in if you dare!
About The Instructor
Kayla Kumari is a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. Her queer horror novelette Helen House was named one of the Best LGBTQ Books of 2022 by NBC News. She is the managing editor of Autostraddle, an assistant fiction editor at Foglifter, and the former managing editor of TriQuarterly. Her short stories appear in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, Joyland, The Rumpus, Cake Zine, and others. Some of her culture writing can be found in The Cut, The A.V. Club, Vulture, Refinery29, and Vice, and she previously worked as a restaurant reporter for Eater NY. She has held fellowships with Tin House and Lambda Literary.