A Fragmented Flash Fiction Workshop
The workshop came alive on August 16th & 17th, 2025.
About The Workshop:
Flash fiction is nothing but really short fiction. It’s like a snack–quick, delicious, and at times, it leaves one wanting for more. In this workshop, we will discuss a few flash fiction ideas. We’ll discuss narrative choice, voice, tone, context, subtext, character development, plot/storyline, and resolution (or anti-resolution) among other things. We’ll also observe its brevity, length of sentences, structure, syntax, openings and endings.
This is a generative flash fiction workshop. We’ll do both–understand the craft of flash fiction and generate new work. We might get time to briefly discuss the new story you’ll have written. Expect interactive exercises, flash fiction ideas, movement, writing sprints, and a good time above all!
The workshop took me out of my writing funk. I loved that the workshop demystified both flash & fragmented flash for me. I appreciated the exercises and the joint reading where we spent time to interpret the story Aekta picked out. It gave me a lot of insight on how one might go about writing a fragmented piece, especially what makes fragmented pieces not seem disparate / disconnected.
I found Aekta’s presence truly inspiring—her way of teaching, listening, and guiding was both articulate and warm. The exercise of revisiting fragmented flash fiction with a focus on tone, pacing, structure and narrative perspective helped me look at writing in a fresh, iterative way. The 2 hours felt so immersive that they went by in a flash — a sign of a truly engaging workshop. For me the workshop was joyful, light-hearted, and creatively fulfilling.
The workshop was wonderful! It was very engaging, useful and allowed for some much needed writing to happen. My 3 main takeaways: Finding the anchor in my writing, playing around with different elements of the narrative arc, sitting with a piece and asking the who, what, where, why and how questions.
Aekta K. is a writer and educator from Bombay, who associates herself closely with water.
She is the founder of Poetry Plant Project, a safe and inclusive platform, where she conducts month-long generative creative writing workshops. Aekta’s book with the working title, “A Glass of Blue” was a finalist for the Rising Writer Prize in Poetry 2024 by Autumn House Press. She is the winner of Breakout Prize 2022 in Poetry, and The Baltimore Review’s Winter Contest in Poetry. She’s a finalist for Indiana Review’s Poetry Prize 2022; her work is nominated for Pushcart Prize by Epiphany, Best of Net by Nurture Literary, Best Microfiction by Passages North, and elsewhere. She’s been long listed for TOTO awards by TFA three times. Her film, “New Normal,” whose script she has written, won the Best Microfilm award at Indie Short Fest by Los Angeles International Film Festival among numerous others. She has works published in Penn Review, Variant Lit, Tupelo Quarterly, Speculative Nonfiction, VIDA, Jaggery, Kitaab Singapore, Muse India, Variant Lit, The Offing, The Inquisitive Eater, Quail Bell Magazine, The Bombay Literary Review, and elsewhere.
Read Aekta’s flash fiction at The Offing, Sky Island Journal, and Passages North.
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