Your Fictional Flash Memoir 

Flash memoir is a concise, powerful form of creative nonfiction that captures a single, significant moment or memory, using brevity to reveal larger dimensions of your life, much like a snapshot or a "flash" of insight. It focuses on intense, specific details and emotional resonance rather than exhaustive storytelling, making every word count to create a impact and connect readers to a fuller understanding of yourself, values, and activities. 

For the sake of this assignment your memoir is not really "nonfiction" but instead a personal, speculative fiction set in the future (or maybe set in the future considering a moment in the past). Closely related to "microfiction" and "flash fiction," a flash memoir can be quite short, even a few words or sentences. For this assignment consider the length of a flash memoir to be between 500 and 1000 words.

(In psychology this kind of work is called "episodic future thinking" which some psychology researchers have even tied with increasing motivation to address climate change.)

The idea for this flash memoir is for you to explore your future --  your career, life, friends, family, living situation, activities -- to consider ways you might be addressing the climate emergency say 20 years from now - 2046? Or looking backward from 2046 at a revealing moment of climate related action in your life in some prior year. 

The flash memoir is only capturing a carefully imagined and detailed moment, but that moment can and should reveal such things as: how the career you chose, how you acted or are acting as a citizen, how you collaborated with friends or family, or how you resisted dominant practices or groups -in short how you are/ were/could be involved in addressing the climate emergency.

I ask you to compose this memoir in the light of all we have read this semester and especially in the context of the inspiring example of Vanessa Nakate. I hope that the real you, your personality, values, interest, life plans and aspirations is clearly present in your flash memoir. I am saying you can be inspired by Vanessa Nakate or other ways people take action on climate but also be true to yourself.

You can certainly learn more about Flash Memoirs from various sources online.  Here are a couple that look pretty good to me: A Guide to the Micro-Memoir, Flash Memoir Award Winners (includes 4 examples), Chicago Land Writing Center (includes links to examples.