{"id":2252,"date":"2025-06-23T20:06:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T20:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mfa\/?page_id=2252"},"modified":"2025-06-26T21:06:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T21:06:34","slug":"2025-pre-con-classes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/mfa\/2025-pre-con-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Pre-con Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Register for all four pre-con classes for $75<\/a>. The New Nature Writing Con classes on July 18-19, Saturday and Sunday, are by separate registration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, July <\/strong>14<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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3-4 pm, Badgley Hall (EOU campus)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Class: “Flash Fiction” with Molly Reid<\/a><\/strong>. Registration required<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As critic Sean Hooks writes, \u201cFlash fiction is something different from just a short story writ small.\u201d Flash fiction\u2014which let\u2019s define as a story of less than 1,000 words\u2014embraces fragmentation, chaos, rebellion, and anarchy. It breaks rules and doesn\u2019t apologize. Jayne Anne Phillips says, \u201cThe one-page fiction can be a compressed, weighted, perfectly balanced, read-in-one-moment example of the miracle. Fast, precise, over. And not over. The one-page fiction should hang in the air of the mind like an image made of smoke.\u201d Join us to look at some contemporary examples and then write some flash ourselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tuesday, July <\/strong>15<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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3-4 pm, Badgley Hall (EOU campus)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Class: \u201cIn the Fewest Possible Words: Poetry\u2019s Art of Concision\u201d with Christopher Kondrich<\/a><\/strong>. Registration required<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If poetry differentiates itself from prose as a genre often characterized by concision, how can a poem achieve this and still connect with readers? How much can a poem omit and still be fully realized? How much can a poem rely on what isn\u2019t on the page and still be a lasting, memorable work? In this class, we will delve into poems whose brevity belie their resonance. We will explore the strategies poets use and how to implement these strategies in our own work. Attendees should come with a piece of writing\u2014a poem or paragraph\u2014to reimagine according to the strategies shared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, July <\/strong>16<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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3-4 pm, Badgley Hall (EOU campus)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Class: \u201cWhat If? Building Speculative Worlds from One Small Change\u201d with Megan Kruse<\/strong>. Registration required<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if one small change reshaped the world as we know it? In this generative writing workshop, we\u2019ll draw inspiration from writers like Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, and Emily St. John Mandel, exploring how a single imaginative twist in technology, environment, or society can become the seed of an entirely new world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday, July <\/strong>17<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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3-4 pm, Badgley Hall (EOU campus)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Class: “Joy, Write” with Allison Cobb<\/a><\/strong>. Registration required<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the midst of chaotic change, environmental crisis, and much that feels unsettled\/unsettling, how do we locate moments of joy and find space for creative wonder? In this workshop we will practice techniques for opening to inspiration, for locating the felt knowledge that comes from intuition, and leads, as Audre Lorde asserted, to our most radical and daring ideas. We will need these ideas, and our emotional and bodily knowledge, to reimagine the world in support of our collective survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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