{"id":3515,"date":"2017-02-09T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T14:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2017-02-09T14:16:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T14:16:50","slug":"news-flash-flash-fiction-event-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2017\/02\/09\/news-flash-flash-fiction-event-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"News Flash: Flash Fiction Event Tonight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick last-minute announcement about a event this evening: the wonderfully named &#8216;Flasher&#8217;s Club&#8217; open mic is back, and will be held at Smokey Joe&#8217;s from 7.30.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the lowdown, from their <a href=\"https:\/\/flashersclub.wordpress.com\/\">blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Flashers\u2019 Club is a quarterly flash fiction\u00a0open mic night. Writers\u00a0read\u00a0original short fiction pieces between 100\u00a0and 1,000 words. There is\u00a0a small\u00a0entry charge,\u00a0all\u00a0of which\u00a0goes to the charity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firststory.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">First Story<\/a>. Bring something to read, or just bring your ears!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We welcome all writers: published writers and unpublished, seasoned\u00a0readers\u00a0and debutants.\u00a0The atmosphere is\u00a0friendly, supportive and inclusive: no need to fear if you\u2019ve never read before! We want to hear you. We like to bribe our readers with\u00a0free literature\u00a0(last time we had short story\u00a0anthologies from indie publishers\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefictiondesk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0066cc\">The Fiction Desk,<\/span><\/a> this time litmags by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prolebooks.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0066cc\">Prole<\/span><\/a>), so there\u2019s a good incentive to get up behind the mic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously UoG Creative Writing lecturer Lania Knight has contributed a guest reading,\u00a0and at tonight&#8217;s event BA Course Leader\u00a0Tyler Keevil will be\u00a0doing the same.\u00a0 So\u00a0if you&#8217;re free, come along and\u00a0take part, or just support the event and enjoy the show!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3528\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/cropped-20160824_103519_resized-11.jpg?resize=1200%2C279&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"cropped-20160824_103519_resized-11\" width=\"1200\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick last-minute announcement about a event this evening: the wonderfully named &#8216;Flasher&#8217;s Club&#8217; open mic is back, and will be held at Smokey Joe&#8217;s from 7.30.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the lowdown, from their blog: Flashers\u2019 Club is a quarterly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[129,203,263,300],"class_list":["post-3515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flash-fiction","tag-local-events","tag-open-mic","tag-reading"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}