SUMMER RETREAT, 2025

RESOURCES

FLASH OR MICROMEMOIR

• In a Flash Lit Mag (monthly themes)--October 1-15, accepting entries 500 words or less on "Portals"
• 100 Word Story (also has a photo prompt)
• Narrative Magazine, 6 word story
• Beautiful Things, by River Teeth Journal--250 words or less
• Brevity Blog, on the writing life--500-1000 words
  
• Brevity Mag, nonfiction essays--750 words or less
• DL Shirey, The Short List (searchable database of all flash publication sites)
• The Art of Brevity book, by Grant Faulkner
• The book on hermit crab essays, The Shell Game: Writers Play With Borrowed Forms

JENNIFER'S PUBLISHED FLASH PIECES

• Brevity Blog--"Should All Writing Prompts Come With a Trigger Warning?"
• Brevity Blog--"Writing with Essential Questions: Lessons from Barbie and Billie Eilish"
• The Ekphrastic Journal (combines images and story)--"Resignation Letter"

OTHER MATERIALS OR RESOURCES JENNIFER PRESENTED OR REFERENCED

• Function Versus Content Words
• The Writer's Diet Website
• Revision and Editing Passes Checklist
• Craft Talks (for inexpensive writing craft courses)
• Jane Friedman, All Things Publishing Guru (also with inexpensive courses, and a free and paid mewsletter)
• The Writers Bridge (free YouTube channel with content videos)

PRESENTATIONS

Susan Mendrala Lomax

• "AI For Memoir Writers" (PowerPoint presentation)​
• "Conversations in the Void" (Claude writes "his" own memoir prompted by Susan)
• "10 Ways Memoir Writers Can Use AI" (As told to Jennifer by ChatGPT and Claude)

Marsha Pincus

• "Memoir Haiku" (PowerPoint presentation)
• Marsha's website
• "My Father's Eyes"
• Link to Marsha's book (write a review!)

Jennifer Selig

• "Twenty-One Ways of Looking at a Photograph" (PowerPoint Presentation)
• Memoir Examples--Photographs

Susan Dodd

• SoulCollage® website
• Link to Susan's email (write a testimonial to her about her presentation!)

Peggy Cook

• Link to Peggy's book (write a review!)

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COLLEGE CATALOGUE GLAMOUR SHOTS

Martha [email protected]

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Kim [email protected]

Susan Dodd--[email protected]

Francesca [email protected]

Pat [email protected]

Lorri [email protected]

Peggy [email protected]

Mary Anne [email protected]

Anne [email protected]

Becca Gardner--[email protected]

Lawrence Markworth--[email protected]

Linda [email protected]

Anne Marie [email protected]