Flash Fiction – stories you can read in a matter of minutes! Angela Meyer workshop

Kylie Eastley, Tasmanian Writers’ Centre

Acclaimed author, Angela Meyer, is coming to Tasmania in July to celebrate the short, the sharp and the edgy.

Drawing on her recently published collection of flash fiction, Captives, Angela will ask her students to delight in brevity, and to experiment with notions of character, conflict and resolution, and evocation of place and mood, in just a few words.

Angela explains that, “the form has been around for a long time, and is usually less than 1000 words. Kafka, Woolf and Hemingway all have stories that can be read in a matter of minutes.”

Angela describes herself as a Melburnian, a reader, writer, editor, whisky-drinker, Bowie nut, movie-lover, vintage fan, absurdist and aesthete. Her recent workshop at the Sydney Writers’ Festival sold out and her popularity is bound to attract attention for seasoned and emerging Tasmanian writers.

Brought to Tasmania through the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre for the Tours program, Angela will be teaching in Launceston and Hobart in mid July.

As an editor and literary journalist, Angela is published in: The Big Issue, The Lifted Brow, Wet Ink, Seizure and The Australian. Her books include: Captives (Inkerman & Blunt) and The Great Unknown (as editor, Spineless Wonders). She has recently completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts through the Writing and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney and her blog: literaryminded.com.au comments on books and writing.

Angela will be delivering day workshops in Launceston and Hobart on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 July.

To participate in the workshops please contact Marion Stoneman on 6224 0029 or 0418 538 771 or email admin@tasmanianwriters.org

More details are available at www.tasmanianwriters.org