Kelli Ford has lived in Austin, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C., but now finds herself in Boise, Idaho, teaching at a community college. She completed an M.F.A. at George Mason University, where she won the Dan Rudy Fiction Prize, George Mason’s Mary Roberts Rinehart Award for nonfiction, and was nominated for inclusion in the Best New American Voices series. Her final year at Mason, MFA faculty selected her to receive the Narrative Thesis Fellowship. In 2006 and 2007, she served as the fiction editor at Phoebe: A Journal of Literature and Art.
The core workshop of SmokeLong Fitness is all in writing, so you can take part from anywhere at anytime. We are excited about creating a supportive, consistent and structured environment for flash writers to work on their craft in a community. We are thrilled and proud to say that our workshop participants have won, placed, or been listed in every major flash competition. Community works.