{"id":1299,"date":"2024-03-06T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2025-01-23T11:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:25:55","slug":"the-long-and-short-of-it-session-1-it-went-in-a-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/the-long-and-short-of-it-session-1-it-went-in-a-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long and Short of It, Session 1: It went in a flash!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This past Monday, 5 March 2024, acclaimed flash fiction writer, Electra Rhodes kicked off the series events we are putting on for MK Lit Fest. Electra was in conversation with OU PhD student Jupiter Jones, herself a prize-winning author of flashes \u2013 complete stories told in just a few hundred words. <\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

PhD student, Grace Kempster, offers here a potted version of the event for those of you who couldn’t make it.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Just like a piece of flash, the session was compressed with wisdom about writing and enjoying this difficult but rewarding form. Electra\u2019s \u2018In Momma\u2019s Shoes\u2019 packed such a punch in three short paragraphs. Who knew that everything about child neglect and poverty could be contained in a 300 word capsule of flash \u2013 travelling at speed to the pinpoint precision (quite literally) of the end.<\/p>\n

Electra gave us 11 quickfire features of the short, compressed narrative that is flash:<\/p>\n