Short Stories Told Quickly - Workshop

This three-hour interactive workshop will look at creating flash fiction and prose poems and will include writing exercises and feedback so that some first drafts and initial editing can be done in the session. Flash Fiction, prose poems and compressed stories currently have a ready market not only in magazines and literary journals, but also on radio. Expect to have pieces of new writing well underway in this workshop hosted by a writer with long experience working and publishing in these forms.
John W. Sexton is a poet, children's novelist, radio scriptwriter and short story writer. His work spans vision poetry, contemporary fabulism, science fiction and surrealism. He is the author of eight poetry collections, including Futures Pass, Visions at Templeglantine, and The Nothingness Kit. His surrealist chapbook, Inverted Night, was published by SurVision in 2019, and his most recent chapbook, Doctor Eel's Thinking Machine, came out from Bone Machine (USA) in late 2025. A recipient of a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship, he has won the Listowel Poetry Prize and been nominated for the Hennessy Literary Award.