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Short and Lasting:
Exploring Flash Forms

Writing Workshop in New Jersey
January 12-15, 2024
Led by Hugo dos Santos

Learn how flash prose can create a lasting experience for readers. This workshop will encourage you to generate or revise short works of fiction and nonfiction, including memoir. We will engage in craft discussions based on evocative readings, and use generative writing exercises to explore what flash can accomplish through language, structure and pace. We’ll share our new drafts, and by giving and receiving feedback we will learn with and from one another. You may bring previously-written work and/or start something new.

*Limited to just 10 participants.* 

 

“This was the best workshop I have ever attended. You have accomplished the impossible–a wonderful workshop that caters to every level and style of writer. I look forward to attending another one soon.”
~ Marie, Bernardsville, NJ

 

Hugo dos Santos

Hugo dos Santos is the author of Then, there (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), a collection of Newark stories, and the translator of A Child in Ruins (Writ Large Press, 2016), the collected poems of José Luís Peixoto, a staff pick at the Paris Review Daily. Hugo’s poetry and fiction shine a light on the beauty, complexity and pain of the immigrant experience and of life in the inner city. In his translations, Hugo has celebrated contemporary Portuguese literature by publishing the poetry and fiction of Peixoto, Matilde Campilho, and João Tordo. Hugo lives in NJ with his wife and three children. Visit his website, and read a piece by Hugo.