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‘Layers in Flash’ Workshop: Recording & handout available

This year, Farhana Khalique and Anita Goveas generously offered a free, one-hour workshop, 'Layers in Flash Fiction' as part of the tenth anniversary National Flash Fiction Day celebration.  The workshop was online and focused on how writers can use imagery, structures and titles to develop layers in flash fiction.

We had incredible demand and couldn't accommodate everyone who wanted to attend, so Farhana and Anita have recorded the workshop to share with the NFFD community.

You can access the video with this link to the Zoom session, using the passcode 'Z@fs5ZkM' (without the quotation marks).

Here is a link to the handout:

NFFD Workshop - Layers in Flash with Farhana Khalique and Anita Goveas

If you missed your chance to participate live this time -- or if you enjoyed the workshop and want more -- Anita and Farhana are running another workshop in the autumn (independent of National Flash Fiction Day).  It's called 'Building your house; laying the foundations for fabulous flash fiction', and will be 11am-1pm BST on Saturday the 9th October 2021.  (It's a steal at less than £6 and places are limited.)  You can find out more and register on the workshop's Eventbright link.

Huge thanks again to Farhana Khalique and Anita Goveas for running the workshop and sharing the materials with us!


Farhana Khalique is a writer, voiceover artist and teacher from London. Her stories are forthcoming or have appeared in the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2021, Leicester Writes Short Story Prize Anthology 2020, Reflex Fiction and more. Farhana has been shortlisted for The Asian Writer Short Story Prize, and she has won a Word Factory Apprentice Award. She is also the editor of Desi Reads and a submissions editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. Find Farhana @HanaKhalique and www.farhanakhalique.com.

Anita GoveasAnita Goveas is British-Asian and based in London. She’s on the editorial team at Flashback Fiction, an editor at Mythic Picnic’s twitter zine, and she’s an editor for the FlashFlood. She is one of the teachers on Dahlia Publishing’s 2021 ‘A Brief Pause‘ writer’s development programme. Her debut flash collection Families and Other Natural Disasters was published by Reflex Press in Sept 2020. Find her at @coffeeandpaneer and https://coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/.

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