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

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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!

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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.

 

June 27: Choose Your Own Adventure at Fairy Fest

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On June 27, join   the Schuylkill Center’s Fairy Fest to explore my choose-your-own adventure experience “An Invitation to the Otherworld.” Accept your invitation and choose your path to create your own story and explore the Schuylkill Center’s trails and landmarks.

 

“When a crow delivers an invitation to join a celebration in the Other World, you know you must go–but what happens after you cross the threshold to fairy land is up to you. Step inside the story to explore Schuylkill Center landmarks, both familiar and hidden, and fairy folklore from around the world. Written by Stephanie Feldman, author of Saturnalia and the forthcoming The Night Parade and Other Stories, and presented by Buried Creek Collective, a new initiative to support informed storytelling about the changing Philadelphia environment.”

Find more details and buy tickets here.

New Class: Story Structure 101, June 28

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Join my new class, a one-session summer seminar on story structure, offered via the Writing Co-Lab on Sun., June 28, 7-8:30pm.

People are natural storytellers—so why are plot and pace so hard to figure out? Join me for one session on character, conflict, and plot to discuss:

  • the qualities that make characters compelling;

  • generating and structuring action;

  • hinge and crisis points, and where to place them;

  • satisfying and meaningful endings; and

  • dramatic models, and how to find your story’s organic shape.

Along the way, we’ll talk about practical strategies and techniques for brainstorming, analyzing, and revising. We’ll also address how to employ these fundamental elements in stories of different lengths, from flash fiction all the way up to novel series.

This class is suited to new fiction writers searching for a foundation in narrative; experienced fiction writers looking for a new grip on plot; and anyone who finds themselves stuck and in need of a plan to invigorate their draft.

 Read more and enroll via the Writing Co-Lab.

Story Structure 101

Preorder “The Elements of Dark Academia”

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I’m excited to see my story “The Genius and the Devil” in the anthology The Elements of Dark Academia, publishing in the UK in August 2026 and now available for preorder.  Get free shipping to the US from Blackstones!

Don your best tweed and sharpen your daggers: school is in session.

In this revelatory collection of over two dozen stories, award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin guides us through the hallowed halls of Dark Academia, from its Gothic roots to its boundary-pushing present. Ranging from the mysterious to the fantastic, the romantic and the horrific, these stories explore the hidden secrets of elite institutions, probe our relationship with power, and examine the darkest corners of human nature.

Within these pages, you’ll meet obsessed professors and the students who will do anything to impress them. Artists and musicians who make deals with the devil. Academic rivalries that turn personal, and even deadly. Students who come to study, but learn that ivory towers often contain dark secrets.

On the syllabus, you’ll find:

  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Evelyn Waugh
  • Dorothy Sayers
  • Carmen Maria Machado
  • M.L. Rio
  • Lev Grossman
  • And many more.

 

The Elements of Dark Academia

Feb 10: Lindsay Merbaum and Vampires at Sea (and me)

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I can’t wait to welcome Lindsay Merbaum to Philadelphia to celebrate her novel Vampires at Sea!

Tues., Feb. 10
6:30 pm
The Head & The Hand (Philadelphia, PA)

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“Don your favorite fangs and vampire fashions and join us for a night of silly, sexy fun with Lindsay Merbaum, author of the queer horror-comedy Vampires at Sea. Lindsay will discuss her novella with local author Stephanie Feldman, lead a round of vampire-themed trivia, and share sex/relationship advice from Rebekah, an emotional vampiress and the narrator of Vampires at Sea.”

New Story: ENTHRALL!

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Very excited to share my latest flash story “Enthrall!”, out now in Hex Literary. Children’s games, an endless old house, a mysterious hostess, and my favorite collective narrator.

“The cheese course lay in ruins on the endless table. The parents were too tipsy or sleepy, too busy arguing or laughing or singing, too distracted loosening belts and popping buttons to demand patience, send sharp looks, or worry about offending the great house’s new owner (whoever she was, wherever she was). It was the first time any of the guests had been inside the great house, or attended such an elaborate banquet.

A child whispered, “Let’s play.””

Read the rest at Hex Literary.

Jan. 27: An Evening of Cocktails and Dark Fantasy with AC Wise (and me)

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I can’t wait to celebrate the launch of AC Wise’s new novel, Ballad of the Bone Road. 

Sultry Hollywood glamour and dark fae treachery collide in the latest novel of mystery, horror, and magic from A. C. Wise. In Ballad of the Bone Road, two paranormal investigators work to clear the glittering city of Port Astor of ghosts and demons, but they’ve both got secret baggage: Belleweather shares her body with a demon and Brix has trapped his fiance’s ghost in his home.

Join us for conversation and cocktails on January 27, 6:30 pm, at Main Point Books in Wayne, PA!

This event is free; RSVPS are requested via Eventbrite. Books may be purchased in advanced through Eventbrite or the store’s website, and signed copies may be purchased to mail within the U.S.