The Long and Short of Flash Fiction
Creative Writing Workshop with Marguerite Sheffer
2025-06-25 17:00:00
2025-06-25 18:30:00
America/Chicago
The Long and Short of Flash Fiction
This interactive workshop covers the basics of writing flash fiction. We'll look at examples, play with prompts, and go over strategies for writing very short stories with a punch.
Nora Navra Library - Meeting Room
Wednesday, June 25
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Nora Navra Library
Meeting RoomThis interactive workshop covers the basics of writing flash fiction. We'll look at examples, play with prompts, and go over strategies for writing very short stories with a punch.
Learn the essential elements of writing flash fiction (short stories under 1000 words). Writers of all levels are welcome. No formal writing experience required.
Bring a notebook or laptop and be ready to write.
Marguerite (Maggie) Sheffer’s debut short story collection, The Man in the Banana Trees won the 2024 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was named a “Best Debut Book of 2024” by Debutiful and a “Most Exciting Debut Story Collection” by Electric Literature. Her stories appear in The Cincinnati Review, BOMB, LitHub, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Smokelong Quarterly, among other magazines. Her story “Tiger on My Roof” was a finalist for the 2024 Chautauqua Janus Prize, which awards emerging writers’ short fiction with “daring formal and aesthetic innovations that upset and reorder readers’ imaginations.” At Tulane University she teaches courses in design thinking and speculative fiction as tools for social change. She is a founding member of Third Lantern Lit, a New Orleans writing collective.
In partnership with Third Lantern Lit. Sponsored by the Friends of the New Orleans Public Library.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Writing | Arts & Cultural |
TAGS: | Health and Humanities | Adult |
Nora Navra Library
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About the branch
Nora Navra Library, originally called Branch Nine, opened in two temporary locations during 1946. The original permanent 2,500-square-foot building, located at 1902 St. Bernard Avenue, was dedicated as the Nora Navra Library on May 2, 1954. Branch Nine and Nora Navra Library served the people of the Seventh Ward continuously for 69 years until it was destroyed by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The destroyed building was demolished in 2017, and construction began on a new one. The celebration of the new 7,800 square foot building, held on Friday, August 24 and Saturday, August 25, 2018, marked the official reopening of all six of the Libraries that were damaged beyond repair by Hurricane Katrina.