Sudden Truths: Writing Flash Memoir and Super-Short Personal Essay 6-Week Zoom Workshop with Blaise Allysen Kearsley, Starts Wednesday, October 15th, 2025

Begins Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 The class will meet weekly on Wednesday nights via Zoom, 6:30PM  ET - 8:00PM Eastern Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Taught by Blaise Allysen Kearsley, a Black-biracial writer and teacher based in Brooklyn. Her writing has appeared in Catapult, Longreads, the Boston Globe, Electric Literature's The Nervous Breakdown, Elle, Midnight Breakfast, The Weeklings, and in the anthologies Mortified: Real Words. Real People. Real Pathetic, Nonwhite and Woman, and Cringe: Teenage Diaries, Journals, Notes, Letters, Poems, And Abandoned Rock Operas. Blaise is a contributing editor at Vestal Review, the oldest flash fiction journal on the planet. Our focus in this workshop is figuring out how we might tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end—in just 500-1000 words. We'll explore the craft of flash memoir and personal essay and the ways in which the super-short form can enhance our writing practice, improve