Students will be encouraged to workshop their writing with the group and will produce a portfolio of their own smoke long writing. Smoke long fiction is something “which promises to let the reader relish the sights and sounds of an entire make believe world before he or she has time to finish one delicious cigarette”. Concise and intense, often 500 words and under, it has a long and rich history in China and its contemporary manifestations have been popularized. These ten workshops will provide an introduction to smoke long fiction by looking at examples from collections and anthologies and through writing exercises.