Live Training with Sage Tyrtle.
About This Training
Flash fiction thrives on precision, momentum, and depth – qualities also found in structured poetry. This workshop challenges advanced writers to craft flash fiction using the repetition-driven frameworks
of a pantoum and a sestina, pushing their prose toward unexpected resonance.
Through guided prompts, participants will first explore the pantoum’s circular structure, layering meaning with each repeated line to evoke memory, obsession, or shifting perception. Next, they’ll tackle the sestina’s spiraling pattern, using its six recurring words to build narrative tension, emotional echoes, and surprising pivots.
By embracing constraint, writers will unlock new ways to manipulate language, deepen emotional impact, and discover narrative possibilities they might not have otherwise considered.
Takeaways:
How repetition and structure can create compelling fiction.
Strategies for adapting poetic forms into narrative prose.
Two completed flash fiction drafts rooted in a pantoum and a sestina.
A new understanding of how form shapes meaning.
About Sage Tyrtle
I’d been telling true stories on stage for ten years, all over the world. I’d taught workshops in India and spun tales in New York City. Won story slams, been on the radio, even on television. And when stages vanished in March of 2020 my life came to a screeching halt.
After a couple of months discovering that Napping Most Of The Day was not a positive career choice, my five-year-old self came marching into my room and woke me up and said, “HEY. Remember how I said I was going to be a published writer? Okay, make it happen.
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