{"id":8203,"date":"2019-07-27T08:56:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T14:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2019-07-27T08:56:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T14:56:58","slug":"fall-fast-flash-workshops-new-classes-to-be-announced-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/?p=8203","title":{"rendered":"Fall Fast Flash Workshops &#038; NEW Classes to be Announced Soon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8035\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8035\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8035 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Costa-Rica-another-sunset-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Costa-Rica-another-sunset-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Costa-Rica-another-sunset.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Playa Negra in Costa Rica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>July is nearly over and my last Fast Flash class of the summer concludes August 2nd. I&#8217;m already feeling the end of summer approaching and I&#8217;ve begun to look at my schedule for the Fall. There remains a high demand for my workshops and for that I&#8217;m very grateful. I&#8217;ll soon be sending out an email to those on my <strong>mailing list<\/strong> (sign up on the right side of this page if you&#8217;re interested). I&#8217;m excited by all the NEW things I&#8217;ll be offering and I hope you will find them exciting too!<\/p>\n<p><strong>I have also made the radical decision<\/strong> to give myself a month &#8220;off&#8221; from teaching Fast Flash in order to focus on a large writing project that has been sorely neglected. Beyond Fast Flash, I have numerous other projects and teaching obligations, such as teaching for the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.regis.edu\/RC\/Academics\/Departments-and-Faculty\/MFA-Creative-Writing.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mile High MFA<\/a>,<\/strong> along with the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/flashfictionretreats.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flash Fiction Retreats<\/a><\/strong> that Nancy Stohlman and I are creating, so it won&#8217;t be a <em>total<\/em> break, but, my friends,&#8230;I need this. I need to honor the writer me and give myself time to fill my own creative well. It will make me a better teacher and human and happier in general.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now I want to address something<\/strong>: I get a lot of emails from those of you who have tried to get into my classes to no avail and I&#8217;m often asked to increase class size and\/or offer more sessions. That would certainly make me richer, but the quality of my workshops would suffer. My ability to read your work with care and respond thoughtfully means a great deal to me. Fast Flash is both substantive and intense. It&#8217;s also an intense workshop for me to teach! In short, I want to do my best by you and that means limiting the number of classes I teach and keeping class sizes to a reasonable level.<\/p>\n<p>So my apologies in advance if you don&#8217;t get a spot this time around. (Please note I am, again, offering two sessions ONLY to those who&#8217;ve not gotten in before.) But! There are numerous GREAT teachers out there, offering terrific online courses. The beauty of being a flash fiction writer at this point in time is all the wonderful teachers and mentors at your disposal as well as the generally kind, supportive nature of the community. All of us approach teaching a bit differently and that variety is good for all of us! <strong>If you don&#8217;t get into my classes, I urge you to seek these out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the waning weeks of summer, my friends. I will be in touch soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July is nearly over and my last Fast Flash class of the summer concludes August 2nd. I&#8217;m already feeling the end of summer approaching and I&#8217;ve begun to look at my schedule for the Fall. There remains a high demand for my workshops and for that I&#8217;m very grateful. I&#8217;ll soon be sending out an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[331,347,353,682,755],"class_list":["post-8203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fast-flash-workshop","tag-flash-fiction","tag-flash-fiction-retreats","tag-mile-high-mfa","tag-online-workshops"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathy-fish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}