2025 Writing Micros with Urgency and Immediacy Generative Class

Writing Micros with Urgency and Immediacy

Thursday, December 04, 2025, 7-8:30 p.m. EDT / 4-5:30 p.m. PDT

Join us for a 90-minute generative writing session focused on writing microfiction! Fractured Lit is excited to bring this class back to our submitters to help them write exciting and fresh micros they can enter into our yearly Micro Prize. Editor in Chief Tommy Dean has developed an inspiring and welcoming class where participants can learn craft moves from excellent model texts and write to multifaceted writing prompts. Past students have published stories inspired by Tommy’s prompts in today’s best flash fiction literary magazines. 

Microfiction demands that the writer (re)consider every word, every craft move, and every design decision. Writing these stories is a challenge, but a fun one! In this class, we’ll focus on stretching our use of writing elements and craft moves to imbue our microfiction with electricity and resonance. Need a jump-start to your writing, want to try writing with extreme brevity, or just want to spend some time writing? We hope you’ll come write with us, so we’re offering this class for the low price of $20 per student! All interested are welcome, regardless of experience.

By the end of this generative workshop, you’ll have gained:

• Knowledge of or new insight on microfiction-specific craft moves you can use in your writing.
• A new reading list of microfiction examples. Plus, in-depth analysis of the craft moves that lead to excellent short-short stories.
• Four to five new prompts to inspire you to create solid beginnings or endings. Students will also be given a PDF copy of the slides, including the prompts, so they can use them in the future.
• Dedicated writing time in an inclusive community of writers where you can feel welcomed and comfortable sharing your work and ideas.

For everyone registering for this class, we're offering a reduced fee ($12) to enter our Micro Prize! A separate special link will be sent out at the start of the contest to use the reduced entry rate. The Micro Prize opens on December 1st and awards $2,000 to the winner! The judge this year is Steve Almond! 

 ***Note: this is not a workshop with instructor feedback. This class will help you generate writing and ideas you can take with you!

Raffle Opportunity!

For an additional $5, participants can sign up for a raffle, with winners selected in early December. 

• One lucky winner will receive an editorial feedback voucher for a future submission, with feedback provided by EIC Tommy Dean.
• Other prizes include a copy of Micro Contest Judge Steve Almond’s All the Secrets of the World or his essay collection Bad Stories. (Three winners for each book.) 
• Three winners will receive a back copy of a Fractured Lit Anthology.