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"You Had Me At Hello": A generative microfiction class

from $20.00

"You Had Me At Hello": Using cultural reference points and history to tell big stories–quick! In this fun, interactive session, we'll study two microfictions and turn them into generative prompts to kickstart our own writing.

No previous knowledge needed. Perfect for the novice and seasoned microwriter, alike. Great for poets looking for a start in prose, too. Students will leave the class with the start of two micros and an appreciation for how cultural and historical information can help them compress narrative (aka–the secret to writing short).

Bring a paper and pencil/pen.

Sunday, August 2 from 1:00-2:00 pm

$20, with proceeds going to Claudine Literary Magazine

$30 Pay-it-forward rate contributes to The Backstory Above’s Sliding Scale Fund.

15% discount for Backstory co-working and community members.

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"You Had Me At Hello": Using cultural reference points and history to tell big stories–quick! In this fun, interactive session, we'll study two microfictions and turn them into generative prompts to kickstart our own writing.

No previous knowledge needed. Perfect for the novice and seasoned microwriter, alike. Great for poets looking for a start in prose, too. Students will leave the class with the start of two micros and an appreciation for how cultural and historical information can help them compress narrative (aka–the secret to writing short).

Bring a paper and pencil/pen.

Sunday, August 2 from 1:00-2:00 pm

$20, with proceeds going to Claudine Literary Magazine

$30 Pay-it-forward rate contributes to The Backstory Above’s Sliding Scale Fund.

15% discount for Backstory co-working and community members.

D.E. Hardy (she/her)

D.E. Hardy's work has appeared in Pithead Chapel, Fractured Lit, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, among others. Her work has been anthologized in Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction, and she won Baltimore Review's 2025 Short Forms Contest for flash fiction. D.E. lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Find her online at dehardywriter.com.

D.E. is the Editor-in-Chief for Claudine, a free online literary magazine. Each issue presents two microfictions, two micro creative nonfictions, a micro by a new writer, and a prose chapbook review (or two).

Claudine’s mission is to rekindle our readers' sense of humanness through original microprose and to highlight the breathtaking array of story and emotion captured in prose chapbooks produced by small, independent presses.