Science-Flavoured Flash Fiction for Poets

Science is a treasure trove of inspiration for the writer, from its fascinating concepts to all those luscious scientific words. Come join us to plunder the treasure, we'll read a selection of science-flavoured flash fictions to stimulate your creative brain to write a few tiny stories of your own - no fiction-writing or science experience necessary!

About Tania Hershman

A queer writer of odd things, Tania Hershman's second poetry collection, Still Life With Octopus, was published by Nine Arches Press in July 2022 and her debut hybrid novel, Go On, a "fictional-memoir-in-collage", by Broken Sleep Books in Nov 2022. Tania is editor of Fuel: An Anthology of Prize-Winning Flash Fictions Raising Funds to Fight Fuel Poverty (Feb 2023). Tania is also the author of three short story and flash fiction collections, a poetry collection and two poetry pamphlets, co-author of Writing Short Stories: A Writers' & Artists' Companion (Bloomsbury, 2014), and has a PhD in creative writing inspired by particle physics. www.taniahershman.com

Zoom

These workshops will be conducted via Zoom. We have put together this simple 'How To' document to help you download Zoom, join a meeting, and navigate around the meeting features (such as adjusting video and audio, uploading files, and sharing screens).

You will receive a confirmation email from Ticket Tailor with your ticket and the Zoom invitation, containing the meeting link and Meeting ID & Password.

Someone from The Poetry Business team will be on hand prior to each workshop to offer additional help in getting connected.

There is usually a lot of interest in our workshops: in the interest of fairness, please limit yourself to one workshop ticket in every two week period.

Bursary Spaces

There are two bursary spaces available per workshop for writers from groups that are under-represented in contemporary poetry (for instance because of ethnic background) or who are experiencing financial hardship. If you would like to apply for one of these bursary places, please contact workshops@poetrybusiness.co.uk

Refunds

If you no longer wish to attend the workshop please let us know by emailing us. We ask for 3 working days' notice before the workshop starts in order to offer a full refund, and enable us to offer the place to someone else.

Though we will do all we can to help you get set up with the technology it is the participants' responsibility to ensure that their camera, microphone and other computer settings are configured correctly. Please contact us (workshops@poetrybusiness.co.uk) if you are concerned about getting set up for Zoom.