Upcoming Kundiman Events:
Flash Fiction
with K-Ming Chang
Sunday, April 18th
2:00 PM–5:00 PM ET
“I love short fiction and flash fiction so much…for me, it’s that you can be so playful and experimental within it because I think that the reader is primed for that…With the novel, we tend not to tolerate as much if it’s like 200 pages and we’re like ‘Oh god, are we going to read experimentally for 200 pages.’ I mean I would love to, but I think something about flash fiction and short fiction is just so ripe with experimentation and with breaking boundaries and for kind of completely turning on its head what a story can look like.”
––K-Ming Chang, Berkeley Fiction Review: “Breaking the Canon: Interview with K-Ming Chang”
This one-day generative class will explore the expansive possibilities of the short-short form. Through reading flash fiction stories and responding to prompts/writing exercises together, we’ll experiment with tiny pieces of writing that can contain/break/create entire worlds. Flash fiction is genre-crossing and boundless, and this workshop welcomes those who are completely new to the form as well as those who are already writing it. The goal is to generate first drafts and new ideas.
eligibility:
This craft class is open to all writers of color. The non-refundable tuition fee is $50. This class will be held over Zoom. There are scholarship spots available, and applications are open through April 1st.
Registration for this class is now closed.
FACULTY:
K-Ming Chang / 張欣明 is a Kundiman Fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. Her debut novel Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020) was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. More of her writing can be found at kmingchang.com.