Creative Nonfiction in a Flash

Experiment with short memoir or essay in the tradition of authors such as Dinty Moore, Abigail Thomas, and Sonja Livingston. This form uses the fluidity of prose as its structure and the imagery and compression of poetry as its engine. Explore the power of a well-wrought sentence and the turn of a tale. Concentrate on pieces from 25 to 2,000 words to tell a single, true story. All levels welcome.

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Darnell Arnoult is the author of the novel Sufficient Grace (Simon & Schuster) and two poetry collections, What Travels With Us and Galaxie Wagon (LSU Press). Her shorter works have been published in a variety of journals and anthologies. She is the former writer-in-residence at Lincoln Memorial University and is the recipient of the SIBA Poetry Book of the Year Prize, Weatherford Award, Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award, Mary Frances Hobson Prize in Arts and Letters, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has a BA from UNC-Chapel Hill, MA from NCSU, and MFA from University of Memphis. She lives in Mebane, NC. For more info, visit darnellarnoult.net.