30 Super-Short True Stories in 30 Days
with Blaise Allysen Kearsley
November 1, 2025
Length: 4 Weeks
Open to AllText-Based
Original price was: $395.00.$340.00Current price is: $340.00.
Original price was: $395.00.$340.00Current price is: $340.00.Enroll Now
One advantage of writing super-short personal essays—also known as flash nonfiction—is that you can produce a lot of new work in a short amount of time. The daily rhythm of writing flash pieces will help you build momentum, sharpen your skills, expand your range, and leave you with a richer, more confident practice. You’ll also have a stack of pages to revise and polish, or expand into longer works.
In this course, you’ll receive one prompt daily. Each prompt is designed to help you identify stories that may be hiding somewhere within you, deep in the body or in a secret corner of the brain. Each prompt will be results-driven and tied to a particular aspect of writing and life.
Writing a story in 100 to 800 words might sound relatively simple, but it takes a lot of practice to craft a personal narrative that can take a reader through an experience, one that vibrates like a flash of lightning and stays with them after they reach the end. You will learn how to follow through on core ideas and build immersive scenes in and around them. You’ll work with imagery, sensory details, and multi-functioning prose, and play with word count and unconventional structures. You’ll also have access to reading material for guidance, edification, and inspiration.
Each week, you have the option of submitting one of your flash pieces for instructor feedback. You will also have the option to post some of your work, and trade comments with your course mates. By the end of 30 days, you’ll have a whole collection of micro-writing—one piece for each prompt, seeds of stories planted in fertile soil ready for you to cultivate—and the satisfaction of looking at what you’ve generated and seeing where the work wants to take you.
Who This course is For
This is for writers of all levels interested in creative nonfiction. It’s great for cultivating a writing practice, getting into the flow of writing a little bit (or as much as you can) every day for a month. Mostly, you just have to have a desire to create.
Learning and Writing Goals
Learning Goals
- Establish and cultivate a writing practice that challenges you to get going and keep going.
- See what happens when you venture out of your comfort zone and try different approaches to the work on different days.
- Make space for art and creativity in difficult times.
- Focus on the details, the language, the powers of observation.
- Take memories and abstract ideas and develop them into an entire super-short story with a beginning, middle, and end.
- Discover possibilities that will surprise you.
Writing Goals
- Write 30 flash essays (100 – 800 words each) to be revised, expanded, condensed, folded into each other or used for a another project, or kept as a journal—documentation of one month in your writing life.
- Optional: receive and offer feedback from peers and/or the instructor.
Course Structure
The goal is to write one short piece every day for thirty days! Each day, you’ll receive a new prompt designed to inspire fresh work and stretch your creative boundaries. Each week, you can choose one piece to receive detailed feedback from me, and you’re invited to share your work in our online classroom forum to connect with your fellow writers.
Note: Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, there will be no prompts on Thursday and Friday, November 27th & 28th. We’ll make these two days up by extending the course into the first two days of December.
Original price was: $395.00.$340.00Current price is: $340.00.Enroll Now
Student Feedback for Blaise Allysen Kearsley:
Blaise’s feedback was fabulous—thoughtful, insightful, generous and inspiring. Katherine Arnup
Blaise’s self led course materials were thorough, well organized, and a pleasure to read. I learned a lot on my own working through her materials as well as in person when we had live classes. Blaise offers thoughtful feedback as well as helpful writing exercises. I enjoyed the course and would absolutely recommend it if you are working on a memoir. Angela DeMarse
She was wonderful! Henny Hiemenz
“Blaise is a gifted teacher. Her class has been water in the desert for me.”
“Blaise was really able to build a community on Zoom. This is an incredibly difficult thing to do, and she made it seem so easy.”
“This is a fantastic format. The small class size ensures everyone gets ample time and submission opportunities. Blaise is such a skilled reader and editor, and her notes are always valuable. She offers wonderful perspectives, and assembles groups of writers with keen perspectives of their own. Highly recommend.”
“What Blaise does is so specific and special. You can’t find that in other workshops.”
“I love that the readings center BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ voices. That has been an important and edifying element.”
“During quarantine I had to show up for myself and others who counted on me, even when I felt like all I wanted to do was hide under my couch. Being part of this creative group of writers saved me.”
“I feel so inspired, enriched, encouraged, and empowered in my writing practice. I’ve been sitting at my desk since we all logged off just feeling how full of gratitude my heart is—for you, the workshop, and the entire group.”
“I genuinely looked forward to each week. The advice you gave sent me back out into the world with confidence and purpose.”
“Submitting something for publication for the first time was one of my goals for our eight-week workshop and that gave me the push I needed to hit the send button. Everything this group taught me about specificity, vulnerability and vivid storytelling made a huge difference.”
November 1, 2025
Length: 4 Weeks
Open to AllText-Based
Original price was: $395.00.$340.00Current price is: $340.00.
Original price was: $395.00.$340.00Current price is: $340.00.Enroll Now
