Flash Fusion: 1st anniversary writing workshops

Guess whose 1st birthday is coming up?! Yep, it’s been almost a year since the publication of Flash Fusion: An anthology of flash fiction and conversations on craft by South Asian writers, and we are celebrating our first anniversary in style 😊

Launched at the Flash Fiction Festival last year on 15th July, and to coincide with South Asian Heritage Month (18th July-17th August), Flash Fusion is celebrating its first book-birthday with a series of pay-what-you-can online writing workshops with its editors – and you are all invited to the party!

First up, Anita will host, ‘Flash Fiction Skills to Streamline Your Prose’, on Saturday 26th July at 10:00-11:30am BST.

Next, Susmita will deliver ‘An Immersion into the Minute World of Words and Art: Flash Fiction Inspired by Mughal Miniature Paintings’, on Thursday 31st July, 7:30-9:00pm BST.

And then Farhana will present ‘Using unusual ideas to develop and edit your work’, on Sunday 10th August at 10:00-11:30am BST.

All workshops will be held online via Zoom, will be recorded for participants, with discounts available. More details, blurbs, bios and booking info below!

Flash Fusion 1st anniversary workshops

(1) Workshop 1, with Anita Goveas, on Saturday 26th July at 10:00-11:30am BST

‘Flash Fiction Skills to Streamline Your Prose’

In this workshop we’ll use story examples and writing exercises to consider what makes a successful flash fiction, and how to use those techniques to shape your writing in general.

Anita Goveas is a British-Asian writer of flash fiction and short stories. Her debut flash collection, Families and Other Natural Disasters, is available from Reflex Press, https://www.reflex.press/product/families-and-other-natural-disasters/, and she’s a co-editor of Flash Fusion, an anthology of flash fiction, writing prompts and interviews by and about authors of South Asian Heritage, available from Dahlia Publishing, https://www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/flash-fusion .

(2) Workshop 2, with Susmita Bhattacharya, on Thursday 31st July at 07:30-09:00pm BST

‘An Immersion into the Minute World of Words and Art: Flash Fiction Inspired by Mughal Miniature Paintings’

Get inspired to write flash fiction with prompts celebrating the Islamic miniature art from the Mughal period of Indian History.

Susmita Bhattacharya’s novel, The Normal State of Mind, was long-listed at the Mumbai Film Festival. Table Manners won the Saboteur Award for Best Short-Story Collection and was aired on BBC Radio 4 Extra. She co-edited Flash Fusion: An anthology of flash fiction and conversations on craft by South Asian writers. She mentors and runs creative writing workshops in the Solent region and beyond.

(3) Workshop 3, with Farhana Khalique, on Sunday 10th August at 10:00-11:30am BST

‘Using unusual ideas to develop and edit your work’

This session will cover ways to develop your own unique ideas and use them to polish your prose.

Farhana Khalique is a writer, voice over artist, teacher, and PhD candidate from south-west London, UK. Her writing appears in Flash Fusion, Tales from the City, Best Small Fictions, and more. She is a co-editor of Flash Fusion, a submissions editor at SmokeLong Quarterly, and a creative writing tutor at City Lit. You can find Farhana online @HanaKhalique and farhanakhalique.com.

IMPORTANT - BOOKING INFO:

You can book your workshop(s) via clicking on this Google Forms link. Once we've received your form, we'll email you a payment link and confirmation of your order. We'll also email you separately with the Zoom link nearer the time. (Alternatively, you can use the 'select date and time' links above and we will send you the payment links.) Thank you.

Flash Fusion: An anthology of flash fiction and conversations on craft by South Asian writers is available from Dahlia Publishing: https://www.dahliapublishing.co.uk/product/flash-fusion

The stories range from maths problems to the moon, from food to families, and everything that makes people want to share part of themselves.

This anthology, funded by the RSL Literature Matters Awards, is inspired by the hope that more burgeoning writers realise that their words are important.

“A brilliant initiative that has published conversations about craft alongside flash fiction by South Asian writers.” -Alycia Pirmohamed, poet and judge of Literature Matters, RSL

Flash Fusion is a unique collection of flash fiction, writing prompts, and interviews by and about talented writers of South Asian heritage, featuring:

· Sudha Balagopal

· Ani Banerjee

· Susmita Bhattacharya

· Ahsan Butt

· Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar

· Shome Dasgupta

· Bix Gabriel

· Nod Ghosh

· Pia Ghosh-Roy

· Farah Ghuznavi

· Anita Goveas

· Sarah M. Jasat

· Harsimran Kaur

· Farhana Khalique

· Asha Krishna

· M.L. Krishnan

· Nina Miller

· Vineetha Mokkil

· Hema Nataraju

· Mandira Pattnaik

· Sumitra Singham

· Sudha Subramanian

· Hananah Zaheer

· Tara Isabel Zambrano