This course explores the many forms of mini stories and why they’re so popular with literary magazines. Students will study 1,000-word flash fiction, stories that fit on postcards, all the way down to six-word stories, gaining valuable skills and practice along the way. Lessons will include brief lectures, class discussion on select sample stories provided, writing from prompts, and critique sessions. Students will undertake the entire writing process from brainstorming and outlining, to drafting, then workshopping, and finally revising. Students will draft, workshop, and revise one or two short pieces and leave the course with strong writerly habits.