Flash fiction is a literary genre where less is more. Novelists Ernest Hemingway and Franz Kafka may not have used the term, but have engaged with such forms of prose in their short story collections.

Our workshops introduce you to the craft of writing fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Over the course of a semester, you will learn ways of shaping stories and poems through various exercises ...

Ms. Kadish is the author of the novel “The Weight of Ink.” “Write down a phrase you find abhorrent — something you yourself would never say.” My students looked startled, but they cooperated. They ...