Packing a Punch: Concision, Intensity, and Violence in Fiction and Nonfiction, A reading and Q&A with Joy Castro

Joy Castro is known for her short, urgent flash fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as her book-length works. In this reading, she will share a selection of very brief nonfiction and fiction pieces and address audience questions. She outlines the link she sees between literary form and the sociopolitical conditions that shape writers' lives in the craft essay/provocation, 'On Length in Literature,' available here.