This fall: 5 Authors on Story Craft: a 6 Session Seminar

This fall, I’m joining four brilliant short story writers and teachers for “5 Authors on Story Craft: a 6 Session Seminar” from the Writing Co-Lab. You can take all five sessions (and the final panel discussion), or choose classes a la carte.

In this series of classes, five accomplished and accoladed short story authors join forces to demystify how to write the short story, from beginning to end. With readings, discussion, as well as in-class writing time, you will learn how to closely read stories, decode the author’s craft, and use their techniques to inspire and improve your own creative work. Though designed to be taken sequentially, each class also functions as a stand alone session; enroll in the whole package for a reduced price and to have access to a final panel with all of the teachers answering your questions about writing and publishing, or simply take the session(s) that you need.

Stephanie Feldman on The Art and Craft of Launching a Story, September 9th, 7-9pm

Anca Szilágyi on Character and Mystery, September 16, 7-9pm

Lena Valencia with It’s a Mood: Using Setting to Define Interiority, September 23rd, 7-9pm

Danielle Lazarin on Time and Perspective, September 30th, 7-9pm Eastern

Rachel Lyon on Pacing, Exposition, and Scene (Getting To Your Best Ending), October 7th, 7-9pm Eastern

Authors in Conversation, a panel, October 14th, 7-8pm Eastern

Learn more and register via the Writing Co-Lab.

IN SUMMER SHE TURNS CRUEL Arrives in 2028!

I’m thrilled to announce that my next novel, In Summer She Turns Cruel, is forthcoming from Lanternfish Press in 2028.

Get ready for feminist folk horror, in which three women–one newly pregnant, one fleeing a disastrous affair, and one on the verge of a depressive breakdown–find themselves making bargains with malevolent forces while compiling a guide to local legends in a small college town during a summer heat wave,

Get ready to find out what’s leaving those little gifts from the woods, and whatever you do, don’t knock over the stone cairn, and don’t go toward the green light.