Product details

• Original Concept: Barrie Tullett

• Edited by: Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

• Design & Production: Barrie Tullett

• Format: 40pp pamphlet sticth book with Risographed cover

• Size: 277×105 mm

• Publisher: The Caseroom Press

• Publication Date: Summer 2024

Book description

A collection with a Creative Writing class run by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese at the University of Copenhagen.

4-word afterthoughts: an afterword

story in a flash / a flash of English / to capture the story / not to hold it / to let it unfold / hint at the other / languages that homed it / before it was honed / to 4 words their / shapes on the white / of this anthology pages / inviting you as readers / to open these 4-word / texts and to open / yourselves up to them

In the spring semester of 2024, twenty-nine writers joined me for “English in a Flash,” the course of “Creative Short-Form Writing in English” at the University of Copenhagen. Experimenting with brevity, we turned also to Barrie Tullett’s 4-second (fairy) stories. Ours are not only fairy tales, though. They play with other genres, cognitive scenarios, imaginaries. Their intertextuality relies on cultures and languages beyond English: Danish, French, Japanese, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Colombian Spanish, Polish. Learning of our flash writing games, Barrie zoomed into the workshop to talk about his project and its designs. Generously, he invited us to collaborate on the mini-anthology, which you, Reader, are holding now in your hands.

Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese

Copenhagen, 20 May 2024