Great Salt Lake Speculative Flash Eco-Fiction

Great Salt Lake Speculative Flash Eco-Fiction

4-part workshop

Thursdays May 9, 16, 23, and 30, 6-8 pm

First Session: Can you write a story in 50 words or less? This flash-writing session gives participants a chance to write nano-length hint fictions and stamp stories, kicking off a four-part workshop series experimenting with speculative eco-fiction addressing Great Salt Lake. With plenty of whimsy in these übershort forms, participants will address issues concerning the lake from within their own imaginative spaces.

Second Session: How can fiction affect an issue as immense and imminent as Great Salt Lake? The second installment of the GSL speculative flash eco-fiction workshop series sees participants hijack a core human survival mechanism: story. Through the means of horror and sci fi, writers will explore how to subvert our collective anxieties about the lake by externalizing, breaking down, and facing that which scares or mystifies us.

Third Session: Salt Lake City as we know it can’t exist without Great Salt Lake—and stories may well not exist without a sense of place. In a third speculative flash eco-fiction workshop in a four-part series about GSL, participants will plumb the workings of how place shapes meaning in writing. As we deconstruct place, we’ll reassemble what we know of GSL while bending reality, shattering calcified understandings of the lake with speculative writing.

Fourth Session: Attuning ourselves to our ecology can set the scene for where we can locate ourselves in revision. With these faculties open and flowing, new movement within this environment may then inspirit new ways to look at what we’ve written as we strive for music within the language of our flash creations.

Cost: $Free. Registration is required.

Location: CWC, 210 East 400 South #8.