2.00 pm – 5.00 pm in Dining Room

• How did they do it? Master Moves in Flash Fiction. Pre-festival workshop with Kathy Fish Booked separately (£50) More details here..

1.00 pm onwards.

• Check-in for those who have booked accommodation at the venue (Reception at Trinity College Main Entrance. Trinity College staff will check you into your accommodation until 9.00 pm. Check in also open at Churchill College.

2.00 pm onwards

• Arrivals and socialising. Bring your own picnic to eat in the grounds. Or chill out with friends. Chicken and Vegan Paella will also be availabe from 5.00 pm. (Payment in advance)
• Register arrival in Reception at Trinity College (Old Building Main Entrance) Collect lanyards. Workshop sign-ups will be made in advance online a few weeks before the weekend.

2.00 pm – 11.30 pm

• Bar open (Badger’s Pouch) run by Trinity College. Free tea and coffee also available

2.00 pm – 5.00 pm

• Bookshop open. Meet and Greetin the bookshop (Tyndall Room) for those who haven’t been before.

6.30 pm – 6.45 pm

• Welcome and introduction to the Friday Evening. In Dining room

6.45pm – 7.30pm

• Flash Fiction Readings from Festival presenters Dining Room

7.30 pm – 8.00 pm

• Two mini book launches. Details to be announced. Dining Room

8.00 pm till late socialising in the bar (Badger’s Pouch) and outside in the grounds. (There is also a ‘chill-out’ room for quiet conversation Front Lounge). Our festival Karaoke entertainment will take place in the bar, hosted by Helen Rye and Christopher Allen.
The bar is open until 11.30 pm and karaoke will finish then.

8.45 am – 9.45 am
Early morning hour-long workshops.

• Collage and Flash with Laura Marshall Lecture Room One
• Good Things Come in Small Packages: Creating Flash from Proverbs, with Alison Powell Front Lounge
• Pare it all Down: small feedback group, with Jude Higgins Dalton Room
• Workshop with Nora Nadjarian Lecture Room Two

9.45 am – 10.15 am

• Coffee/tea in Dining Room. Meet and Greet for anyone who has not come before

10.15 am – 10.25 am
• Welcome, information about the weekend events including introduction to workshop facilitators. Dining Room</li>
  10.30 am – 11.00 am

• ‘The Biggest Word Cricket in the Whole Wide World’. with Vanessa Gebbie. The traditional half an hour warm up writing workshop for the entire assembly. Dining Room.

11.05 am – 12.35 pm
Workshop Session One. One and a half hours.

• We Real Cool: The Collective Voice with Kathy Fish Lecture Room One
• Physicality in Flash: Writing the Body, with Finnian Burnett Lecture Room Two
• Sexing it Up in Prose Poetry, with Carrie Etter Lecture Room Three
• From Page to Karaoke Stage, with Nancy Stohlman Bar. (Badger’s Pouch)
• Writing A Prize Winning Story. Panel chaired by Audrey Niven with Kathryn Aldridge- Morris, Sara Hills and Marie Gethins Front Lounge

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

• Lunch. Dining Room Bar open from 12.35 pm

2.15 pm – 3.45 pm

• Herding Cats: How to build a collection of short fiction: with Sarah Freligh Lecture Room One
• Writing a Novella-in-Flash: Harnessing Everyday Life: with Michael Loveday Lecture Room Two
• Food for Thought: with Susmita Bhattacharya Lecture Room Three
• Brief Encounter: Finding Story Inspiration in Films: with Emily Devane Front Lounge
• Shakespeare and Flash: with Jo Gatford Bar (Badger’s Pouch)

3.45 – 4,15.pm

• Tea break Dining Room
• Bookshop open Tyndalls Room

4.15 pm – 5.30 pm

Workshops Sessions one hour and 15 mins

• NFFD reading and discussion session with Diane Simmons, Karen Jones and Ingrid Jendrzjewski Bar (Badger’s Pouch)
• Risk and Reward: Breaking Free of the Comfort Zone: with Ken Elkes Lecture Room One
• Writing the Self: Empathy versus Appropriation… with Fiona Mackintosh Front Lounge
• Exercises from 52 Stories for Readers and Writers with Rosaleen Lynch Lecture Room Two

5.30pm – 11.30 pm

• Bar open (Badger’s Pouch)

5.30 pm – 6.30 pm

• Bookshop open Tyndalls Room

6.30 pm -7.30 pm

• Dinner
7.45pm – 8.15 pm. Mini book launches details to be announced Dining Room
8.15 pm to 8.30 pm Announcement of the Pokrass Prize Winner and the two runners up, plus readings of the stories Dining Room

Bar open until 11.30 pm to carry on socialising inside and outside. Karaoke entertainment organised by Helen Rye, with Christopher Allen. Chill out room (Front Lounge) for quiet conversation

8.45 am – 9.45 am.
Early morning hour-long workshops.

• Flash and Nature with John Brantingham Front Lounge</li>
• How To Run Writing for Well Being Workshops with Kathryn Aldridge Morris Lecture Room Three
• A Question of Palate and Nose with Slawka Scarso Lecture Room One
• ‘Supercharge your Creative Practice with Farhana Shaikh Dalton Room
• Art and Flash with Anika Carpenter, Flash Cabin Lecture Room Two

9.45- am – 10.15 am

• Tea. Dining room

10.15 am – 10.20

• Welcome to Sunday with Jude Dining Room

10.25 am – 10.55 am

• A talk/book launch of South Asian Flash with Susmita Bhattacharya,Anita Goveas and Farhana Khalique Dining Room

11.05 am – 12.35 pm
Workshops, one and a half hours.

• We Real Cool: Storytelling in the Collective Voice with Kathy Fish Lecture Room One
• Smokelong Special with Christopher Allen and Helen Rye in the bar
• Science and Flash Workshop with Ingrid Jendzrejewski Lecture Room Two
• Murder and Radishes with Vanessa Gebbie Lecture Room Three
• Style and Structure in the Novella in Flash. Panel with John Brantingham, Sarah Freligh, Jupiter Jones and Michael Loveday Front Lounge

12.35 pm – 2.00 pm

• Bar Open until 2.00 pm. Book shop (Tyndalls Room) open from 12.30 pm – 1.00 pm.

1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

• Lunch

2.15 pm – 3.45pm workshops

• Viva Voce.Writers read their dialect based stories in the bar (Badger’s Pouch) with Kathy Hoyle facilitating
• Psychedlic Flash: Writing The Altered State with Nancy Stohlman Lecture Room One
• Monsters in Fction: with Alison Woodhouse Front Lounge
• The Writer Self in Flash Fiction with Stephanie Carty Lecture Room Two
• Building up the Layers: with Farhana Khalique and Anita Goveas Lecture Room Three

3.45 pm – 4.15 pm

• Tea. Bookshop open

4.15 pm – 4.45.

• Raffle prizes drawn Dining Room
• Goodbyes Dining Room