Class starts on Saturday, November 15th, 2025

The class will meet weekly via Zoom on Saturdays, 12:00PM - 2:00PM Eastern Time

Alt time zones: 9:30 pm IST | 8 pm GST

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Instructor Aekta K. is the winner of Breakout Prize 2022 in Poetry, and The Baltimore Review’s Winter Contest in Poetry. She’s a finalist for Indiana Review’s Poetry Prize 2022, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Epiphany, Best of Net by Nurture Literary, Best Microfiction by Passages North, and elsewhere. She’s the founder of Poetry Plant Project, where she conducts generative writing workshops. She’s been long listed for TOTO awards by TFA three times. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School in New York. She’s taught creative writing at Parsons School of Design, High School of Economics & Finance with WriteOn NYC, and Girls Write Now. She has works published in Penn Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Speculative Nonfiction, VIDA, Jaggery, Kitaab Singapore, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Dubai, indulges in sunsets, and is working on two books. Read Aekta's flash fiction at The Offing, Sky Island Journal, and Passages North. 

This generative flash prose workshop is for writers interested in exploring the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction through the flash form. How much can you pack in 750 words? How important is the "stake" for the narrator? What does anti-resolution look like?

Flash prose is like a snack—quick, delicious, and at times, leaves one wanting more. We'll examine narrative choice, voice, tone, context, subtext, character development, plot/storyline, and resolution (or anti-resolution). We'll also observe brevity, sentence length, structure, syntax, openings and endings.

Through interactive exercises, flash ideas, writing sprints, and movement, you'll both understand the craft and generate new work, with time to discuss your stories. This workshop will equip you with resources, writing tools, and techniques to experiment with—and above all, have fun!

Open to all writers, no matter where you are in your journey. This class includes written and verbal feedback from Aekta.

COURSE OUTLINE

Week 1: discussion of flash prose, structure & anatomy of flash, writing prompt, guidelines for feedback

Week 2: discussing students' works - critique and feedback, discussion of assigned reading, flash fiction anatomy, writing prompt

Week 3: discussing students' works - critique and feedback, discussion of assigned reading, flash nonfiction anatomy, writing prompt 

Week 4: analysing similarities and differences in flash fiction and nonfiction, discussing students' works - critique and feedback, discussion of assigned reading, extra resources

CLASS TAKEAWAYS:

In this course, students will:

• Read diverse flash fiction and flash nonfiction material.
• Generate a minimum of 3 drafts of flash prose.
• Learn to imitate another writer's writing style.
• Learn to give verbal and written constructive feedback to peers
• Make at least 1 new friend

TESTIMONIALS:

“Aekta is an effective teacher and patient mentor. I have been in multiple workshops which she facilitated and I can vouch for her skillful class management and well-thought out structured lesson plans that helped me to understand the technicalities of writing. She made each class enjoyable and engaging with unique activities while always including generative writing assignments. I really appreciated that she created a democratic space for learning and stimulating discussions for everyone involved. She will be an asset to any institution. I would highly recommend her.”
-former student

“Aekta has taught and mentored me through three workshops under the Poetry Plant Project. She has helped me edit and better my work consistently, with extremely useful feedback, thorough guidance and endless motivation. Aekta is the kind of teacher & poet I constantly find myself turning to, for inspiration. It has been because of her help and support that I have come up with some of my best work, published as well as unpublished." -former student

"Aekta is kind, soft-spoken and empathetic along with being a very disciplined teacher and mentor, who made sure I understood the value of mine as well as everybody else's time in class, encouraged us to adhere to deadlines and pushed us to try and incorporate various new elements and techniques in our work.
I highly recommend Aekta and am certain that she will prove to be one of the biggest assets in anything and everything she chooses to work with/work on. It has been an honor to know her in capacities beyond that of a teacher and to have found in her a friend, a guide and a mentor. I wish her all the best for every great opportunity that is to come her way!” -former student

“Aekta has played an instrumental role in my writing journey. I have attended three of her workshops (currently in a one-on-one program) that dive deep into the nuances of writing. With the Poetry Plant Project, she has created a space where we could enter a no-judgment area to experiment with different writing styles. More than just a workshop, PPP is a community." -former student

"Aekta has a magic wand that can make anyone fall in love with the art of writing. She curates every lesson plan with utmost detail. They have all been valuable from the questions she asks, in-class exercises, and bringing various perspectives to the detailed feedback she provides on our writing." -former student

"I highly recommend Aekta to anyone who wants mentorship for their writing and anyone looking to engage with a human form of poetry.” - former student

“Poetry Plant Project pushed me to think about poetry differently—to really decipher what makes a poem, and what holds a poem together. I learned a lot about the latter through all the universes we visited in poetry packets and each others’ poems. It pushed me to take risks and write about subjects I usually struggle with. It has made me want to experiment further with punctuation and form and most importantly made me read both, my poems and others with a different perspective. Overall, it has been a journey full of wonder, learning, and growth as both, a human being and poet. Aekta is a wonderful educator and PPP was a really beautiful experience. It was nourishing not just for my poems but also for my soul.” -former student

ONLINE COURSE STRUCTURE:

This class will meet via Zoom.

• Aekta K. | Live via Zoom

• Class starts on Saturday, November 15th, 2025
  

• The class will meet weekly via Zoom on Saturdays, 12:00PM - 2:00PM Eastern Time

• Alt time zones: 9:30 pm IST | 8 pm GST

• Tuition is $299 USD.