Snackable: A Fragmented Flash Fiction Workshop

About the Host:

Aekta K. is a writer and educator from Bombay, who associates herself closely with water. She is the founder of Poetry Plant Project, a safe and inclusive platform, where she conducts month-long generative creative writing workshops. Aekta’s book with the working title, “A Glass of Blue” was a finalist for the Rising Writer Prize in Poetry 2024 by Autumn House Press. She is the winner of Breakout Prize 2022 in Poetry, and The Baltimore Review’s Winter Contest in Poetry. She’s a finalist for Indiana Review’s Poetry Prize 2022; her work is nominated for Pushcart Prize by Epiphany, Best of Net by Nurture Literary, Best Microfiction by Passages North, and elsewhere. She’s been long listed for TOTO awards by TFA three times. Her film, “New Normal,” whose script she has written, won the Best Microfilm award at Indie Short Fest by Los Angeles International Film Festival among numerous others. She has works published in Penn Review, Variant Lit, Tupelo Quarterly, Speculative Nonfiction, VIDA, Jaggery, Kitaab Singapore, Muse India, Variant Lit, The Offing, The Inquisitive Eater, Quail Bell Magazine, The Bombay Literary Review, and elsewhere.

Read Aekta’s flash fiction at The Offing, Sky Island Journal, and Passages North.